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Olena Makarenko is a journalist at Euromaidan Press. In 2014, Olena started working as a volunteer on public initiatives focusing on building civil society and promoting dialogue between people from different regions of Ukraine.
During the last weekend of October 2021, Kharkiv, the city that calls itself “the first capital of Ukraine,” elected a new mayor. The early elections came after the death last December of mayor Hennadiy Kernes, who had headed...
The documentary UA-LT For Your and Our Freedom by the director Larysa Artiugina reveals the aspects of the two nations’ friendship. It contains newsreels and interviews with prominent Ukrainians and Lithuanians who observed this...
Ukraine’s current political and economic landscape formed under chaotic conditions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Ukraine rapidly transitioned from a planned economy into a free-market. This created a race to the...
100 CEOs and top managers of the largest Ukrainian and international investors are estimated to be part of Ukraine’s business world, says a member’s survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce — Ukraine’s...
Bonus: some sea in Odesa Read more: Take a look at 30+1 best photos of Carpathian Mountains calling to save wild nature Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war Ukraine holds military parade on Independence Day after two-year pause:...
Professionals from the world of media and filmmaking have joined forces to share their skills with Donbas youth. As a result, 40 teenagers from Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts have created their own materials, including articles, documentary...
Several post-Euromaidan attempts to reform Ukraine’s judiciary have been made in Ukraine, during the presidencies of both Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On the legal level, Poroshenko’s reform initially seemed to be...
Professionals from the world of media and filmmaking have joined forces to share their skills with Donbas youth. As a result, 40 teenagers from Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts created their own materials, including articles, documentary...
The Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival was founded in 2020 by representatives of the Transcarpathian Film Commission, namely Oleksandr Meryavchyk, Vyacheslav Yegorov, and Dmytro Hreshko. Its aim is to draw the film...
The childhood: Communists, birth of oligarchs In the first years of Ukraine’s independence, the Communist Party managed to keep its influence. First and foremost, communists prevented Ukraine from declaring the restoration of its...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
