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Lesia Ukrainka: Teen idol, beacon of erudition & fervent advocate of European integration""February 25, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lesia Ukrainka, one of Ukraine’s most outstanding writers and dramatists, but also a poet and an ardent...
Tsikhanouskaya says Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” for now but won’t end the revolutionIn an interview with Le Temps, Sviatlana Tsikhanoŭskaya says that at present, the Belarusian opposition has “lost the streets” and cannot withstand the force being used by the regime of Alyaksandr...
Protests sweep Ukraine as Odesa court jails civic activist for 7 years, finding him guilty of kidnapping to earn $11On 23 February, the Primorsky Court of Odesa ruled to imprison Serhiy Sternenko, a civic activist...This article was updated to include data from an analysis published by Ukrayinska Pravda.
Lesia Ukrainka’s “laughter through tears” and patriotism despite sorrow: poetic inspiration for a country at warLesia Ukrainka (1871-1913) is the pen name given to Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka by her mother, who encouraged her writing and creative passion. Her uncle, Mykhailo Drahomanov wrote that...""
Initiative teaching English to Ukrainian schoolkids now draws volunteers from all continentsThe initiative GoCamp was launched in Ukraine in 2016 to help kids from Ukrainian schools learn English with the help of native speakers from different countries. However, it immediately became...
How did the Ukrainian oligarchy keep going after Euromaidan?Much of Ukraine's current economic and political voes are explained by the dominance of oligarchs. Sustained by informal business-political networks and international legal and financial systems, these uber-businessmen have managed...
From the Kremlin without love: disinformation reviewThis was a busy week for the pro-Kremlin media: besides fending off imaginary “Anglo-Saxon” provocations and...The Pro-Kremlin media shows no love to Europe, or Russians supporting imprisoned Alexei Navalny. -
“Danya showed his determination… He chose Ukraine,” do not forget Danylo Didik, killed by pro-Russian terroristsThis is an essay by Ukrainian writer, journalist and war volunteer Yuliya Iliukha dedicated to 15-year-old Danylo Didik. Danya Didik was a young, patriotic school boy living in Kharkiv. He... -
37 unique photos to remember the Euromaidan RevolutionAfter the Euromaidan revolution, Ukrainian photographers united to create a photo project to remember the events of 2013-2014 which changed Ukraine’s course of history. Titled HUMAN FACTOR. LAST EDITION, it... -
Keepers of Maidan. How Ukraine is preserving the memory of the Euromaidan RevolutionSeven years ago, on 18-21 February 2014, during the most intense confrontation of the Euromaidan Revolution, dozens of protesters were killed in the center of Kyiv. After that, then-President Viktor... -
Ukraine sanctions “Putin’s point man” Viktor Medvedchuk and wifeUkraine has sanctioned pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife, the head of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said at a briefing on 19 February. The decision... -
Euromaidan “key event of state-building,” states Ukrainian Parliament to repel Russian propagandistsThe Ukrainian parliament has adopted a statement recognizing Euromaidan, or the Revolution of Dignity, "as one of the key moments of Ukrainian state-building and expression of the national idea of... -
Ukrainian IDP proves in court she was displaced due to Russian occupation. Can she make Russia pay?The Ukrainian town of Amvrosiyika that sits only some 20 kilometers away from the Russian border in Donetsk Oblast happened to fall to the Russian-hybrid forces back in August 2014.... -
Russia comes for Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea once againAt 4 AM of 17 February, Russian law enforcement raided seven homes of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea. In what has become a usual occurrence on the peninsula, six men... -
Doctors also cry. How a 27-year-old physician saves COVID patients in a Kyiv hospitalHer name is Iryna Lysa, she is young and smiling, and she is the doctor who treated my 71-year-old mother after she was admitted to a hospital with COVID-19 last... -
Ukraine finally launches reform of Security Service. And human rights activists are worriedThe long-awaited reform of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has finally arrived. The tentative removal of economic oversight functions that were criticized as "Soviet relics" has been met with applause. Yet,... -
Russian propaganda’s techniques: flooding the mind with hyperbolesAnyone who studies disinformation could ask why the information space contains so many hyperboles. For example, when you read about the pandemic, you cannot avoid extravagant narratives of Satan pulling the... -
Ukraine’s China policy: A (not so) delicate balanceReporting on the saga of Chinese efforts to purchase Ukraine’s strategic Motor Sich aerospace production company frequently casts Kyiv as a weak “pawn” on the geopolitical chessboard, caught in the... -
“Please get this ring back to my wife. Tell her I love her.”- do not forget fallen Defender Dmytro PrydatkoThis is an essay by Maryna Lukyanova, Plus1 project co-director and executive director of Euro-Atlantic Course NGO. It is dedicated to fallen Defender Dmytro Prydatko who served as senior reconnaissance... -
Russian-occupied Crimea running out of water despite snowy weather – with Moscow still searching for way outThere was an old Soviet joke that comes to mind with this story: What would happen to Saudi Arabia if communism triumphed there? Radio Armenia was asked. Radio Armenia replied,...
