This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Maidan in Ukraine, an event that challenged an axiom that almost all analysts of the post-Soviet space hold, Arkady Babchenko says. That axiom holds that the empire’s possessions can escape...
While traditional journalists can be blamed of being biased and propaganda media can manipulate information to skew the reality of what has happened that day, the Virtual Reality project is called to show everything as it was. The founders...
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...
Oleksii Furman and Serhiy Polezhaka are two friends and photographers who set the goal to show the world the story of one tragic morning of Euromaidan Revolution using an innovative tool – virtual reality. 20 February 2014 is the day...
Horbatyuk added that, in the course of four years, 50 sentences have been issued, and 412 persons have been served notices of suspicion. “To date, the investigations and examinations have resulted in 50 sentences. However, an appropriate...
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...
Following the morning detention of ex-Georgian President and ex-Odesa Oblast governor Mikheil Saakashvili in his house in Kyiv, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko had a briefing with journalists. During it, he presented a video which...
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...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
