Almost half a year has passed since Ukrainian legal institutions named three army volunteers as suspects in assassinating Belarus-Ukrainian journalist Pavlo Sheremet. Musician Andriy Antonenko, doctor Yuliya Kuzmenko, and airborne...
In his 4 May video address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated he can not allow the implementation of healthcare reform in the system’s current state. At his 20 May press conference, marking his first year of presidency,...
The Ukrainian media Espreso TV is saying it is being pressured after the Ukrainian state media regulator scheduled an unplanned inspection of the channel. The reason for the inspection is eerily reminiscent of Soviet times: broadcasting...
On 20 May, another rainy quarantine day in Kyiv, journalists gathered for an open-air press conference devoted to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first year as president of Ukraine. Unlike his 14-hour press conference in October, this one was...
The leader of the Young Guard (Molodaya Gvardiya, MG) of United Russia Denis Davydov announced that the organization plans to create groups to combat opposition movements in every region of the country. According to him,...
Even though Vladimir Putin did not take part in the public commemorations of the third anniversary of his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, there is no question that his press secretary is right that the day he took that...
Putin’s Russia has crossed a Rubicon: it now has sanctioned the Anti-Maidan Movement, a domestic version of Hitler’s storm troopers, and thus created a monster that almost certainly will engage in pogroms against one group or...
The movement was created in Russia “to prevent revolutions similar to the one in Ukraine.” Its organizers include deputy head of the civil organization “Boevoye Bratstvo” (‘Fighting Brotherhood’),...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...