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Ukraine ready to send experts to Sarajevo to examine 300-year-old icon from Luhansk""During a meeting in Sarajevo with Bosnia and Herzegovina Foreign Minister Bisera Turković, Ambassador of Ukraine Vasyl Kyrylych announced that Ukraine was ready to send experts who would...
ECtHR’s Euromaidan decision: Ukraine’s chance to redeem justiceThe recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights regarding the Yanukovych government's violation of human rights during Euromaidan not only serves justice to the victims. It also reconstructs...
“Carthage must be destroyed”: case study on Kremlin’s attack on democracyFor more than a decade pro-Kremlin propaganda outlets have sought to promote in Europe new ideologies hostile to liberal and democratic ideals by manipulating the concept of “sovereignism” (Disinformation as...
Journalist launches own media on Donbas to remind world of Russia’s warIt's the sixth year of the war in eastern Ukraine, and events there are disappearing from both Ukrainian and international media coverage. The trend has several reasons, but the lack...
Markiv case: Milan court gives reasons for Ukrainian soldier’s release and accuses UkraineOn January 21, 2021 the Milan Court of Appeals issued a statement explaining its motivation for the verdict in the Markiv/Rocchelli case - Vitaliy Markiv is not guilty...""
“He was a maximalist, a romantic and a man of action,”- do not forget fallen Defender Vasyl ArkhipovThis is an essay by Ukrainian writer Nataliya Hurnytska, dedicated to fallen Defender Vasyl Arkhipov who served in the Donbas Volunteer Battalion. On May 23, 2014, his unit was ambushed...
Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire is a warning to Russia’s neighborsRussia has tried to maintain its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia’s attempts have ranged from cyberattacks in...
ECtHR rules Yanukovych government responsible for crimes against Euromaidan, death of one protesterOn Thursday, 21 January, the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) made a historical decision regarding the numerous human rights violations by the Ukrainian state during the Euromaidan protests of...
How Ukraine is healing the traumatic wounds of colonialismUkraine emerged out of the 20th century with a burden of trauma. The metaphoric bloodlands fell victim not only to the carnage of WWII. When the war started, Ukrainians were...
The myth of “historically Russian Crimea”: colonialism, deconstructedThe widespread narrative of Crimea being "historically Russian" is a classic example of a colonial myth. It inscribes the history of the victorious Russian empire while overlooks the erasure of...
How the Soviets stole Ukrainian ChristmasAfter the 1917 revolution and occupation of the national republics that emerged out of the ashes of the Russian empire, the Soviet authorities declared war on "bourgeois" religious traditions. However, eradicating them proved to be difficult, and thus, the choice was made in favor of cultural appropriation.
“Neo-liberalism”: the Kremlin’s new favorite strawmanThe rhetorical means of straw men is the Kremlin’s go-to trick in any polemical debate. A straw man is the method of attacking views or ideas, never expressed by the opponent. In...
Russia’s strategy in the Sea of Azov: The Kerch Bridge, artificial shipping delays and continued harm to UkraineRussia’s “hard power” activity in the Sea of Azov has increased significantly since May 2018, when the authorities officially opened the Kerch Strait Bridge they had been building since the...
Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interferenceLast September, the US Treasury sanctioned Ukrainian independent MP Andriy Derkach citing his attempt to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election as a Russian agent. A few days ago,...
Stolen childhood: Russian propaganda and militarization of Crimean youthOn December 7, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) adopted the resolution “Problem of the militarization of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine,...
Ukraine wins crucial round against Russia over Crimea in the European Court of Human RightsUkraine mounts its attack in the legal battle against Russia. Having not enough military support to crush the aggressor immediately in 2014, Ukraine chose a long-term strategy towards victory, uniting...
30 years of “color revolutions”: historical revisionism of Russian propagandaAn otherwise mediocre mouthpiece of state-sponsored pro-Kremlin disinformation,...Historical revisionism gets a modern spin as the pro-Kremlin media label the events of 13 January 1991 in Vilnius a “color revolution.” -
Largest-yet report on Ukraine invasion documents Russian army in DonbasThe Ukrainian NGO “Security and Cooperation in Ukraine” has released a 225-page report titled Armed Aggression of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine, which offers the fullest-to-date compilation of the participation... -
Ukraine-Hungarian relations: a tale of mounting mutual mistrustAt the Beregsurány-Luzsanka border crossing between Hungary and Ukraine on 24 November 2020, a Hungarian official, István Grezsa, was denied entry to Ukraine. Grezsa, who is Commissioner for the Development... -
Survivor on Lukashenka’s hitlist tells why dictator wanted to murder journalist SheremetDays after EUObserver published a sensational wiretap from the Belarusian KGB purporting the Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka ordered assassinations of opponents of his regime, one of those on the hitlist...
