Fleeing Amvrosiyivka to Dnipro The summer of 2014 was alarming for the Zdorovtsov family of Amvrosiyivka, with distant explosions heard and nearby settlements under fire. The Ukrainian military would liberate the town on 5 June 2014 from...
Hello! My name is Nastia. When the war began, I was just 11, and I lived in occupation until I was 16. This year I moved to Dnipro to graduate from school and enter university since I’d like to become a journalist. I have something to...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
Prior to Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and aggression in the Donbas, there were only a few thousand Muslims in the central part of Ukraine, but now, some 100,000 of the faithful have fled there from Russian occupied areas,...
The war in eastern Ukraine created a new reality for hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine. Around 1,8 million citizens of Ukraine’s easternmost Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts had to leave their homes because of the warfare between...
30 year old Anna Maslyukova left her native Donetsk (which now is occupied) for the first time in two years ago. In the summer of 2014, she together with her mother left the city suddenly, almost without preparation. Her mother...
Fifteen years ago, more than a hundred people lived in Desyatyny, Zhytomyr Oblast. Today, this rural community counts only 30 inhabitants. The village would have completely disappeared if not for one brave and enterprising man, Olesandr...
Last year UNDP disbursed grants to support small businesses. In eight months 248 businesses have been created that employed 868 people. In June 2016, 11 teams of young filmmakers travelled all over Ukraine filming their success stories....
Ukraine must move quickly to promote the reintegration of the Donbas because “five years from now,” Heorhiy Tuka, the deputy head of the Kyiv ministry responsible for overseeing such plans, says, “it will already be impossible” to...
After Russia occupied Ukraine’s peninsula of Crimea on March 2014, thousands of Crimean Tatars were forced to leave their historical homeland and become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). About 2,000 of them settled down in Lviv,...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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