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Moscow presents US as sinking into chaosFour years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in Moscow. The news of Hillary Clinton conceding was greeted with spontaneous applause... -
“Let me go, Mom, because I’m neither here nor there!”- do not forget fallen Defender Andriy TereshchenkoThis is an essay by prominent Ukrainian writer, lawyer, public activist Larysa Denysenko, dedicated to Defender Andriy Tereshchenko, who fell in combat at Donetsk Airport on December 2, 2014. On... -
US presidential election ‘extraordinarily unwelcome’ for Putin, Shlosberg saysIf Vladimir Putin was pleased with the results of the 2016 US presidential election in which his operatives intervened, he is anything but by both the competitiveness of the race... -
The only Ukrainian-language bookstore about to shut down in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast""The only Ukrainian-language bookstore in Bakhmut - Eney - is about to close its doors unless a good soul comes to the rescue. The owner, Volodymyr Deryvedmid announced...
Information and psychological Russian operations target relations between Poland and UkraineInfo OPS Polska Foundation was established for the implementation of projects aimed at ensuring the safety of the information environment. In its latest report, excerpts from which we publish below,...
Vitaliy Markiv comes home as truth & justice prevail over covert Russian propagandaAt 14:00 on November 4, National Guardsman Vitaliy Markiv, an Italian-Ukrainian national, returned home to Ukraine. Markiv was accompanied by the Ukrainian delegation to Italy, namely Interior Minister...""
Kyiv judge suspected of planning to seize power declared wanted by anti-graft watchdogWith gridlock on the country's years-long anti-corruption reforms caused by Ukraine's Constitutional Court that left no apparent legal way for both President and Parliament to resolve the issue, other significant...
Ukraine ponders ways to stop “legal terrorists” in Constitutional CourtUkraine's Constitutional Court's unappealable decision on 27 October not only killed Ukraine's anti-corruption infrastructure - it sent the country spiraling into legal chaos and strained Ukraine's relations with the West....
Vitaly Portnikov: “The ghost of the Soviet Union was definitively buried in Ukraine in 2014”There seems to be a very big crisis in the post-Soviet space. Let’s take a quick look at the events of the recent weeks and check out what’s...""
Western sanctions hurt Russia’s defense industry and put it at odds with other sectors, analyst saysMany in Russia and the West believe that Western sanctions have done little to affect the Russian economy let alone Russian policy, but there is at least one area where...
Ukraine’s geopolitical successes become Russian defeatsIn the first half of October, the Ukrainian leadership concluded a series of important international agreements, with significance not only for Kyiv itself but also for buttressing regional security more...
“He would never surrender!”- do not forget murdered council deputy Volodymyr RybakThis is an essay by prominent Ukrainian writer Tamara Horikha Zernia, dedicated to Volodymyr Rybak, deputy of Horlivka City Council, who was murdered by the pro-Russian militia between April 17-22,...
(Anti-)Constitutional Court of Ukraine: why it declares the best reforms unconstitutional instead of protecting the ConstitutionOn 27 October 2020, Ukraine’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional one of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption achievements, the online register of assets that top-officials were obliged to reveal. This means not only...
Memory wars and other battlesA large-scale debate on historical memory, started by Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany H.E. Dr. Andrii Melnyk, encourages each and every one of us, those with Ukrainian roots and of Ukrainian...
Is Belarus less European than France?History repeats itself; after Ukraine comes Belarus! A popular movement for freedom, democracy and the end of the corrupt post-soviet system arises, and once again we have the superhero, Vlada...
Elections in Europe and beyond remain a target of Pro-Kremlin disinformation: this week’s disinfo reviewLet us start with Moldova. According to pro-Kremlin media, the US is allegedly preparing the opposition for...With multiple elections coming up, the pro-Kremlin media is definitely not at ease. -
UPA documents found in Italian shell casing in Zhytomyr OblastAn amateur archaeologist recently stumbled on a shell casing from an Italian projectile containing printed documents of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The shell casing was lying in..."" -
Constitutional Court torpedoes Ukraine’s anti-corruption reform"Should there be life imprisonment for large-scale corruption?" asked President Zelenskyy in a controversial unofficial poll held on local election day, 25 October. Unsurprisingly, most - 83%, according to preliminary... -
Born in independent Ukraine, they now defend their country’s sovereignty & territorial integrityFrom the very beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv-based photographer Anatolii Stepanov has focused his camera on front-line soldiers and daily life along the demarcation..."" -
This week’s Russian propaganda: Ukraine to smuggle Russian vaccine via EU as British vaccine turns people into monkeysFirst, some big news. Six real sandworms and fake monkey vaccines On Monday the US Justice Department indicted six GRU officers working for Unit 74455. According to the Justice Department,...
