On 2 October 2017, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported it detained a gang plotting to blow up a Hungarian monument in Ukraine’s westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast, home to a significant Hungarian minority. The timing for the...
A car explosion at 19:00 on 27 June 2017 took the life of Yuriy Voznyi, a colonel with Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), and wounded three others in the vehicle. The explosion took place in the village of Illinivka in Donetsk Oblast,...
A bomb that detonated beneath a car on 27 June 2017 near Vul. Mekhanizatoriv 8 in Kyiv took the life of its driver, 39-year old Maksym Shapoval, a Colonel of the Ukrainian Army, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported. The detonation...
More fake documents On 22 May, the Russian online newspaper Sovershenno Sekretno (“Top Secret”) published its analysis of allegedly top secret documents of Ukraine’s Special Service. The authors didn’t disclose...
For the third year in a row after the Euromaidan Revolution, Ukraine fights one of its main inner enemies – corruption. Some successful steps have already been made in this direction, however, the battle is still in full play. Moreover,...
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...
The Eurovision conflict surrounding Russia’s contestant Yulia Samoilova shows no signs of subsiding. Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) banned the singer from entering Ukrainian territory on 22 March, after it was discovered...
By choosing Yuliya Samoilova, a singer in a wheelchair, as a Russian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest-2017 in Kyiv, Russia threw the bait to the human rights-sensitive West. And the West took it, despite rights of people with...
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine’s security service banned entry to Russia’s Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova over her performance in occupied Crimea which violated Ukrainian laws on entering Crimean territory. The European...
Ukraine’s security service reported on 22 June 2016 that it expelled Vladimir Cheban, Chief of Staff of Russian group of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) from Ukraine for five years. The ban was based on accusing...
On 28 September 2017, Ukraine’s new law on education entered into force. Called to advance Ukraine’s badly needed education reform, it has been praised for introducing the concept of competence-orientation and giving schools...
