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Activists fight back against decision of Kyiv authorities to build shopping mall on Kyivan Rus archaeology site

The Kyiv city council’s new decision claims to “guarantee the preservation of the artifacts, which were found during the archaeological…

byAlya Shandra

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Exiled Putin critic, Russian journalist Babchenko assassinated in Kyiv [UPDATE: he is actually alive]

Arkady Babchenko, a Russian opposition journalist who fled to Ukraine has been shot in his home in the…

byAlya Shandra

The Free Idel Ural Movement press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 21, 2018 (Source: facebook.com/Free.IdelUral)

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Free Idel-Ural Movement takes shape in Kyiv

This week, three activists from the Middle Volga announced the formation of the Free Idel-Ural Movement to achieve…

byPaul A. Goble

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Help for Kyiv’s homeless

In 2006, 85,000 people in Ukraine were estimated to be homeless. Officially, there are around 12,000 homeless people…

byUA TV

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Ukraine’s main Christmas tree lit up for the winter marathon

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byOlena Makarenko

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History of Ukraine

Kyiv during World War II and today: photocollage

Seventy-four years ago, on 6 November 1943, the Soviet army expelled the Nazi occupiers from Kyiv. Stalin ordered…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Boom of citizen initiatives in Kyiv: participatory budget a success

The residents of Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have become more active in taking care of their city. This…

byOlena Makarenko

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Why the populist demonstration in Kyiv will not result in “great political reform”

Do not expect the “immediate improvement of life” in Ukraine either today or tomorrow. It is interesting to…

byVitaly Portnikov

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Motivational speaker Nick Vujicic gathers 150,000 in central Kyiv on Ukraine’s first Thanksgiving day

On 17 September 2017, representatives of Protestant churches in Ukraine united for the first time to hold a…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Central Kyiv park gathers chess players all year long

Recently Ukraine made it to the top-10 most dangerous countries in the world, beating Russia and even… North Korea.…

byOlena Makarenko

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NATO in Kyiv

When Russia began its “hybrid” war in the Donbas, I had a discussion with a colleague, a well-known…

byVitaly Portnikov

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World-famous artists bring colorful murals to Ukraine’s concrete jungles

Recently Euromaidan Press wrote about the project “Back to School” by the Mural Social Club, which brought new colors…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Car explosion in Kyiv takes life of Ukrainian Colonel; involvement of Russian special services suspected

A bomb that detonated beneath a car on 27 June 2017 near Vul. Mekhanizatoriv 8 in Kyiv took…

byAlya Shandra

Amina Okuyeva and Adam Osmayev of the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion. Kyiv, 2015. Photograph: Shaun Walker for the Guardian

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Man accused of Putin murder plot gunned down in Kyiv, attacker might be linked to Kadyrov

Adam Osmayev and his wife Amina Okuyeva, Chechen volunteers who served in the Kyiv-2 police battalion fighting against…

byYuri Zoria

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Museum of Soviet monumental propaganda to open in Kyiv in fall of 2017

Ever since the toppling of the Lenin monument in Kyiv during the winter of 2013 amid the Euromaidan…

byAlya Shandra

To annex Donbas, Moscow would have to destabilize Ukraine by attacking elsewhere, experts say

Just as Moscow opened the way to its annexation of Crimea by undermining Ukrainian positions in the Donbas,…

byPaul A. Goble

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Know Kyiv like a local. Some insights for Eurovision visitors

Kyiv has already opened its doors for tourists coming to see the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. We at…

byOlena Makarenko

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Fascinating History of Kyiv Trams: The Lifeblood of the Ukrainian Capital

Comfortable, safe, eco-friendly, high-speed and even … romantic. All this can be said about Kyiv trams. Some people commute…

byUA TV

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Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution: remembering stories of Heavenly Hundred

Vivica Williams, UATV correspondent: Paul and I met on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square,…

byUA TV

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Kyiv opens innovative park to boost startups and technologies

The first innovative city, a space with infrastructure for work and living for representatives of innovative businesses, has…

byOlena Makarenko