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Alya Shandra is the editor-in-chief at Euromaidan Press. Before joining Euromaidan Press, she participated in environmental research and education projects. Alya can be contacted at alya.shandra (a) gmail.com, on twitter @AlyaShandra., or FB
War came into my life on November 7, 2014. After eight months of wanting to be at the front, I finally was going there in a van heading to a Right Sector base near Donbas. We are a motley bunch: three journalists, four fighters, and a van...
“When I saw the livestreams from Maidan, I wanted immediately to go fly to Kyiv. I never felt any patriotism for Ukraine before, I left my home town in 1994 and made my career here. But then I felt that something big was happening....
The human rights situation in Russia has plummeted back into Soviet times. Over the past four months, the number of political prisoners in Russia has passed the 100 person mark and reached the number of 114,...
Until recently, 28 October was celebrated in Ukraine as the “Day of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders.” On the round date of 70 years of this date in 2014, Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory proposes to...
On October 14, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed October 14, the day of celebrating Pokrova, or Intercession, of the Virgin Mary, a new state holiday – the Day of Defender of Ukraine. President #Poroshenko...
The story of the Donetsk Airport’s defense in Eastern Ukraine turned 140 days on October 13, the TV channel TSN has reported in a special project cyborgs.tsn.ua. After a shelling by Russian militants on May 26, 2014, it has been...
On October 3, Laurent Etienne, representative of the The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) working in Donetsk, was killed while the city was shelled. Both the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministries have condemned...
On September 28, the largest Lenin monument in Ukraine located in Kharkiv, the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial Eastern Ukrainian city, saw its last day as a group of patriotic youth continued to celebrate a pro-Ukrainian rally at...
On September 27, six days after the global Peace March against Russian aggression in Ukraine that took place in 59 cities of 27 countries on International Peace Day, the Kremlin decided to have its take at global actions against Ukraine....
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
