Russia’s “hard power” activity in the Sea of Azov has increased significantly since May 2018, when the authorities officially opened the Kerch Strait Bridge they had been building since the illegal annexation of Crimea (UNIAN, May...
Many Mariupolitans not only identify themselves as Soviet but also believe in many myths distributed by Russian propaganda. !function(){“use strict”;window.addEventListener(“message”,(function(a){if(void...
The results from a survey conducted in the south-Ukrainian city of Mariupol indicate that the Ukrainian nation-building process needs to overcome major hurdles in this city, most notably its population’s anti-western geopolitical...
Chasiv Yar hospice In the town of Chasiv Yar, a family volunteered to create a hospice that sheltered some 150 senior citizens from across the entire oblast, including its occupied parts within three years. Now there are 32 lonely elderly...
This is how the woman, who fled the village of Shyrokyne in the Donbas five years ago and who now lives in the nearby city of Mariupol, describes the first day of the bombardment of her hometown in the film “Shyrokyne: Swan Song” by...
Introductory video by Reece Lynch about his work: “I want to stay here as much as possible. That’s the plan. I want to stay here and keep doing this…” says Reece. He studied filmmaking at Manchester School of Art and then...
Travan has visited the war zone in Eastern Ukraine several times “in order to capture the harsh reality of war on camera and bring it to the consciousness of Italians and Europeans through images showing a conflict that has become the...
Leonid Polyakov, a former Ukrainian defense minister now at the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament, says that in the conflict with Russia over shipping on the Sea of Azov, Ukraine has law on its side but lacks both...
Admiral Serhiy Hayduk, commander of the Ukrainian Navy, says that Russia is seeking to provoke revolts in Mariupol and Berdyansk by blocking shipping to them on the Sea of Azov and thus creating increasingly difficult conditions for those...
There is now another “front in the Russian-Ukrainian war,” Mykhailo Zhirokhov says. “It is the Sea of Azov … a real cold war which at any moment risks growing into an open armed conflict” as Russia tries to block all shipping to...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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