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Read More 7 minute read Ukraine Canceling its international broadcast, Ukraine yields more ground to Russian propaganda internationally Back on 1 October 2015, Ukraine launched the international TV channel UATV. It started broadcasting in Ukrainian, Russian,…
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Read More 6 minute read Ukraine Ukrainian Police claim to have detained suspects of war veteran Amina Okuyeva’s assassination The way Minister Avakov communicates is often questionable. “Avakov wrote a post on the detention of the ‘suspects’…
Read More 4 minute read Civil Society Ukrainians place more hopes on Government than on civil society: Survey “2019 went down in the history of Ukraine as a year of significant and unpredictable changes, which some…
Read More 4 minute read Ukrainian reforms Ukrainian MPs strengthened their immunity from prosecution by adopting a bill meant to lift it This demand was caused by the public’s low trust in the parliament. For many years, Ukrainian politicians had…
Read More 7 minute read Ukraine Ukrainian reforms Ukrainian government sets ambitious goals for privatization of state enterprises Whether it be due to bad memories from the 1990s or fear for the future, there is no…
Read More 8 minute read Ukraine Police evidence in murdered journalist Sheremet’s case looking shaky “Yesterday, TV ruined my life,” said Yuliya Kuzmenko, a volunteer and pediatric surgeon suspected of assassinating Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist…
Read More 6 minute read Ukrainian politics Suspects in case of journalist Sheremet’s murder finally detained and they shock Ukraine For over three years, the probe into the assassination of Belarusian journalist Pavlo Sheremet could not find the…
Read More 3 minute read War in Donbas On eve of Normandy summit, most Ukrainians reject peace at any price Read also: More than half of Ukrainians see Ukraine’s future in EU, only 13% with Russia: Poll Only…
Read More 6 minute read Ukraine Ukrainian reforms Ukrainian Parliament reboots State Bureau of Investigations, unblocks probe into Maidan massacre What the reboot foresees The changes are envisaged by the presidential draft law #2116 On the Amendments to…
Read More 8 minute read Civil Society Ukraine Ukrainian politics Yanukovych official Andriy Portnov raises society’s fears of revenge by the old guard More connections to the pre-Maidan government had started to surface after the 2019 elections, even more of Yanukovych’s…
Read More 6 minute read Maidan Ukraine Ukrainian lawyer on hunger strike over investigation of Maidan massacre The pause in the Maidan killings probe was caused by the reforms in Ukraine’s public prosecution. Shortly after…