ACT I – LOOKING BACK: ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AND POWER DUALISM Avakov’s political options During the presidential campaign of 2019, Avakov and Poroshenko pursued conflicting interests. A victory for Poroshenko would have ended...
The chronic lawlessness within police forces has served as a trigger for society’s outrage and led to civil protests in Ukraine many times before. One of the most-known took place in the village of Vradiivka, Mykolayiv Oblast, in summer...
Have you ever heard the name of Kateryna Handizuk? If stories from Ukraine are getting to your news feeds, probably you did, as during the last year, the assassination of the Kherson activist and city official became a symbol of the...
It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday evening entertainment in shooting bottles on the street. They are drunk. Five-year-old Kyrylo was playing...
On 15 October, Daryna Aleksandrova heard her car alarm go off on 3 AM. It was too late – the two cars of the family were burned to the ground. Aleksandrova, a young member of the city council of Kotsyubynske, a satellite of Ukraine’s...
Kateryna Handziuk had just come out of her apartment when an unknown attacker splashed a litre of sulfuric acid into her face and ran away. Passers-by rushed to wash the volatile smoking liquid off her body and get her to the hospital....
Plans to transform the law enforcement bloc in Ukraine were up in the air immediately after the success of the Euromaidan Revolution and entrance of a new government into office. And rightfully so – the images of police violence...
When Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was murdered in Kyiv on 20 July 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said that it was a matter of honor for law enforcers to find the culprit, as did Khatia Dekanoidze, the Georgian reformer...
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Police threatened to punish him for “vandalism and hooliganism,” but eventually released him without...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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