Oleh Boyko, 14 years old My father was called Oleksandr Boyko. I live with my mother and older brother. Dad worked at Epicenter (home improvement & gardening supermarket). He wanted to become a professional boxer, but he was badly...
On 22 February 2014, after three months of protests during the Euromaidan revolution and over a hundred dead, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kyiv, was swiftly impeached by the Ukrainian parliament and ended up in Russia. The...
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in Sloviansk on July 22, 2014. He had retired before the war started in Eastern Ukraine, but decided returned to his duties as a policeman...
Some observers were convinced that this was a purposeful action planned at the highest level to suppress all political opponents; others argued that the former leaders of Ukraine were simply puppets coordinated by Moscow. For many people,...
FROM SPRING TO WINTER – WITH HOE AND PICKAXE IN HANDS In spring, Vasyl sets out early in the morning, swinging his pick-axe to dig up the rocky soil, sometimes cluttered with remnants of concrete and asphalt. He removes bushes and...
Both the Kremlin and the Russian people are afraid of a Maidan, but they needn’t be because for a Maidan to take place in Russia there would have to be something that does not now exist, a genuine opposition in the Duma ready and willing...
In the wake of the mass rallies in Belarus, Russia and Kyrgyzstan at the end of March, we asked our readers what country would face the next Maidan. The poll was conducted on Twitter and Euromaidanpress.com website. Among the 528 total...
The Russian plan was to lure Yanukovych out of Ukraine and turn him into a hostage. And this was not a new plan. When on March 3, 2014, Vitaly Churkin, the Russian permanent representative to the UN, showed a letter from Viktor Yanukovych...
The memory of Holodomor entered the Ukrainian national consciousness only during the perestroika years. It is difficult to imagine now, but the communist regime succeeded in hiding the fact that the mass murder had been planned from its...
Several hundred people fell on their knees before the coffins of two Aidar fighters during the memorial service held at Ploshcha Nezlezhnosti (Independence Square)in Kyiv. Mykola Kuliba from Rivne was known as “Uncle Kolya”. He went to...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
