The city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast was among the first spots where Donbas was occupied by Russian-backed forces. Fighting in the city began in the middle of April 2014. On 5 July of the same year, however, the city was...
“Certain minor violations occur in all democratic states of the world. Elections in Ukraine were transparent and democratic, despite five years of Russian aggression,” said Choliy. All international observation missions...
Over the past five years, we, the undersigned, members of civil society organizations, have been actively defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and national interests in global information space and counteracting the Russian information...
The participation of international experts in the process of creating the anti-corruption court was a demand of Ukraine’s western partners and civil society. Their task was to check the candidates integrity and professionalism. The...
Handziuk says that it’s physically very difficult for her to record this appeal, but “it’s much easier than having to live with and understand all these separatists and Party of Regions advocates… and other...
We, the representatives of many civic communities in Poland and Ukraine, desire to make known our protest against the continuation and escalation of confrontational politics in relations between Poland and Ukraine! These politics ruin the...
“Where’d all the good people go I’ve been changin’ channels I don’t see them on the TV shows Where’d all the good people go We got heaps and heaps of what we sow” (Jack Johnson, “Good...
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, which was to be the beginning of...
The residents of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have become more active in taking care of their city. This became possible due to the city’s recent moves towards a citizen participation budget system. The project Public Budget,...
When US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid his first official visit to Ukraine on 9 July 2017, he met with a small group of Ukrainian civil society activists prior to his meeting with President Poroshenko. The sequence of...
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...
