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Historical reconstruction breathes new life into Ukraine’s iconic Kamianets-Podilskyi fortressThe Kamianets-Podilskyi Fortress is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Podillia (Podolia), the west-central and southwestern historical region of Ukraine, and, without a doubt, one of the...
Planned inspection of Ukrainian positions by Russian-controlled forces sparks protestsAs President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tries to preserve the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine at any cost, the occupation authorities are testing how far they can go in blackmailing him...
Zelenskyy is solving the wrong warThe...President Zelenskyy has vowed to end the war. The problem is that he means "the war in Donbas." Whereas the real problem to solve is Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine.
Moscow Patriarchate nativizing its church branch in Belarus to prevent moves toward autocephalyOn Sunday, 6 September, Moscow Patriarch Kirill elevated to the dignity of metropolitan the man he has chosen to head the exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus and...
Salisbury all over again: novichok in trends of Russian propagandaIn a...There are numerous parallels to draw [between Navalny and Skripal poisonings, - Ed], and the pro-Kremlin media has scrambled in an attempt to draw as many as possible. -
Meet the 73-year-old granny who became an icon of the protests against LukashenkaIn Belarus, where protests against rigged elections are into their second month, an unlikely figure has become an icon of change. Nina Baginskaya, a 73-year old grandmother, has been brandishing... -
Ukraine remains committed to ceasefire in Donbas despite flareup taking life of one soldierOn 6 September, the Russian occupation forces violated the ongoing 29th ceasefire in the Donbas that came into force on 27 July. The previous ceasefires negotiated by the Trilateral Contact... -
Kidnapped Belarus opposition leader tore up passport to resist deportation to UkraineThis article has been updated to include the main points this at the press conference in Kyiv by two Belarusian opposition members who were deported to Ukraine, Anton Radniankov and... -
War Books. Recording the Russo-Ukrainian War in Crimea and the DonbasGanna Skorina calls herself as a passionate book lover. She researches publications, and has compiled an impressive list of books about the war in eastern Ukraine. On her..."" -
Belarusian, Russian state-run media tweak disinformation narratives to conform them to each otherProtests in Belarus have been taking place for almost a month now. In the meantime, Belarusian and Russian state-controlled media have been tweaking and polishing their disinformation narratives, to align... -
Ukraine rolls out official site to help Belarusian IT specialists relocateOn 4 September, Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation rolled out a new website with instructions for Belarusian IT specialists on relocating to Ukraine amid ongoing protests against electoral fraud in... -
Belarus opposition leader Kalesnikava kidnapped in broad daylight as protests enter 30th dayMaria Kalesnikava, the last woman from the iconic opposition trio challenging the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka remaining in Belarus, has been kidnapped in broad daylight in central Minsk. Unidentified men... -
Lukashenka’s war against the free mediaThe dictatorship regime of Aleksandr Lukashenka has ignited a new battle against journalists in Belarus who do not align with the regime’s repressive policies. Local journalists are experiencing mass detentions,... -
COVID-19 disaster slowly brewing in UkraineAs news outlets keep reporting record daily COVID-19 infections, it is becoming clear that Ukraine never got over its "first wave" of the novel coronavirus. The strict quarantine that was... -
New version of Hunger for Truth, film about Holodomor & Ukrainian struggle for independence, now onlineRhea Clyman reporting about Soviet Repressions. Image provided by Andrew Tkach. The Canadian journalist who was the first to write about the 1932 genocidal famine in... -
Decentralization in Ukraine is already an economic successNew amalgamated communities that were formed by the decentralization reform in Ukraine have shown remarkable economic success in only two years. Citizens now see what their taxes are being spent... -
Ukraine’s new Donbas negotiators wreak havoc with pro-Russian statementsAfter the resignation of former president Leonid Kuchma as the head of the Ukrainian delegation the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for negotiating peace with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced him... -
Vitaly Portnikov: The issue of occupied Crimea should not polarize, but unite BelarusiansIn an interview with Lithuanian television, Belarusian presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, whom protesters consider the winner of the presidential election, stated that she did not wish to say..."" -
Why post-Euromaidan anti-corruption reform in Ukraine is still a successReporting on reforms in Ukraine that commenced after the Euromaidan Revolution has often been rather negative, with successes observed during the first years after the revolution being rolled back and... -
Further evidence of post-election torture, beatings, and humiliation uncovered in BelarusThe mass protests erupting in Belarus since the day of the presidential elections, 9 August 2020, have been marked by brutal repression and unprecedented police violence. Security forces have used...
