All features
-
50 women in a cell for four: Belarusian election observer tells of being jailedDuring the first week of protests in Belarus after the country’s falsified presidential election saw dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka claim a landslide victory, Euromaidan Press published the story of detained independent...
Ukrainian veterans hold record parallel parade in face of meek official Independence Day celebrationsFor the second time since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, there was no military parade in Kyiv on Independence Day, 24 August 2020. So Ukrainian veterans self-organized...
On 29th Independence Anniversary, Ukrainians break with Soviet past but see vague alternatives, social survey showsThe traditional 2020 sociological survey by Democratic Initiatives shows that 84.4% of Ukrainians would vote for Ukrainian independence on a referendum if it was held now. The survey has been...
From ambassadors to sports heroes – Belarusian protests encompass all social groupsWhat started as random gatherings in support of Opposition presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, as well as the first demonstrations of Women in White, quickly evolved into a country-wide Belarusian...
Unprecedented drought hits Russian-occupied Crimea, which can’t overcome water shortage without UkraineThe weather in July brought rain to Crimea—but still not enough to save the peninsula from its severe multi-year drought. That same month, the volume of freshwater in Crimea’s reservoirs...
Portnikov: Belarus should be seen through prism of Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, but not 2014 EuromaidanOne of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, Valery Tsapkala, stated that Belarusians do not want to implement the Ukrainian scenario in his country, since “their revolution took...""
How Alyaksandr Lukashenka stole the Belarus presidential electionPresident Lukashenka has stolen many elections in Belarus. But this year, a team of programmers took him on. Thanks to them, for the first time, we can witness exactly how...
Unveiling of the renovated Wall of Remembrance in KyivThe renovated Wall of Remembrance for the fallen heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian war was unveiled on the walls of St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv. The ceremony, attended...""
Reintegration Costs of Donbas: $22 Billion or More?In this article written for the VoxUkraine website, PhD in Economics Artem Kochnev is assessing the possible costs of Donbas reintegration based on the paper from the Vienna Institute for...
Chain of attacks on Ukrainian whistleblowers continues: RFE/RL car set on fireLeading Ukrainian investigative program Schemes: Corruption in Details is one of the Ukrainian service of the RFE/RL’s projects has suffered repeated attacks. The latest incident involved a car belonging to...
Color revolutions everywhere: pro-Kremlin media covers popular protestsUnhindered by facts, disinformation can at times take surprising and unexpected turns. However, most of the time, pro-Kremlin media rely on a set of well-established narratives that work as templates...
Belarusian dissidents in 1999-2000: sudden disappearances & unsolved murdersIn 1999, several political opponents of Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka began mysteriously disappearing - Yury Zakharenka, Viktar Hanchar, Anatoly Krasouski and Dzmitri Zavadski. Their abductions have yet to...""
“State is a machine ready to crush anyone”: Ukrainian released from Belarus jail describes detention cruelties“Police across the whole country operate according to one approved technique — one needs to show maximum inhumanity. To show that the state is a machine that will crush anyone...
Journey to the front lines. How the ceasefire impacts the Ukrainian armyNo major violations have been recorded in the first couple of weeks of the ceasefire announced on July 27, 2020. However, both the JFO and OSCE SMM have...""
An introduction to the White-Red-White flag of Belarus, and the Belarusian politics of memoryAs the pro-democratic uprising in Belarus against dictator Lukashenka continues to gain new ground, accusations are being hurled that the Belarusian national White-Red-White flag is a token of the far-right....
Why are protesters in Belarus using the white-red-white flag?Across Minsk and Belarus supporters of the opposition are hanging up and waving white-red-white flags – very different to the official state flag, which is red and green. Why does...
From falsifications to Russia’s role: Nine questions and answers about the protests in BelarusThe presidential election in Belarus and the mass protests that followed are raising many questions in Ukraine. Some compare the situation in the neighboring country to the Ukrainian „Revolution of...
Flowers stronger than guns as “Ladies in White” protests spread throughout BelarusStarting from August 12, the protests against a rigged vote in Belarus have taken a remarkable turn - women in white clothes carried flowers and formed chains in different cities...
Happy Birthday to National Guardsman & defender of Ukraine, Vitaliy Markiv!Vitaliy is accused of complicity in the...Today, National Guardsman Vitaliy Markiv celebrates his 31st birthday. He has spent three years of his life in an Italian prison."" -
Chilling testimonies of police brutality, humiliation & “re-education” amid vicious crackdown on Belarusian protestersOn Thursday, August 13, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus Yuri Karayev apologized for the injuries sustained by “random people in the protests who got it in...""
