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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..."" -
Pillar of Lukashenka’s regime cracks as court journalists abandon shipBelarusian state media was one of the things propping up Lukashenka’s dictatorship by broadcasting lies on the situation in the country. Meanwhile, journalists from a few independent media constantly found... -
Belarus hands over 32 of 33 Russian Wagner mercenaries to RussiaCiting the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Russian state media reported on August 14 that 32 of 33 Russian Wagner mercenaries detained in Minsk in late July have returned to Russia.... -
To help Belarus, recognize Tsikhanouskaya as the legitimate president-electAmid calls for new sanctions against Lukashenka and even threats to take Belarus to the International Criminal Court, presidential contender Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's associate Veranika Tsapkala addressed international institutions, asking them... -
“You all know your numbers”: polling station rehearsed announcement of Belarus dictator Lukashenka’s “victory”The 2020 election results in Belarus are rigged, protesters in Belarus claim. At many polling stations, observers recorded a 110–140% turnover. Voting places were awfully slow in order to limit... -
“It feels like we live in the Middle Ages.” Screams of tortured Belarusian protesters recorded near prisonAn audio recording from a Minsk detention center confirms the harrowing testimonies of prisoners released from it yesterday. The sounds of beatings and moans of tortured prisoners were loud enough... -
Fugitive Belarusian presidential challenger reappears, calls upon authorities to stop violence and start dialogueSviatlana Tsikanouskaya, who had departed to Lithuania four days ago, has reappeared and urged protesting Belarusians to stand by their choice. She calls upon them to form a coordinating council... -
Ukraine’s new anti-corruption bodies lock horns with deep state over rotten courtThis July has seen the biggest scandal yet involving Ukraine’s judiciary. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau suspects the notorious Kyiv District Administrative Court judges of creating a criminal organization and aiming... -
Belarusian police detain and beat teenagers, injure 5-year-oldUnprecedented brutality against peaceful protesters opposing the falsified presidential election giving dictator Lukashenka an implausible victory are ongoing in Belarus for the fifth day in a row. Mass protests across...
