On 1 April, after a lengthy search, police found the body of the Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Maks Levin near the village of Huta Mezhyhirska in Kyiv Oblast. The Office of the Prosecutor General wrote in the...
The advent of social networks transformed the world of media, and Ukraine was no exception. Increasingly more Ukrainians, especially the younger generations, read news on Facebook, Telegram, or YouTube, while the percentage of TV viewers...
The fired team of Kyiv Post, which was abruptly shut down last week by its owner Adnan Kivan, is going to launch a new media outlet with the “values and spirit” of Ukraine’s largest and oldest English-language newspaper,...
Controversy rages over why Adnan Kivan, the owner of Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper Kyiv Post, decided to suddenly suspend its work and fire its journalists. Its former deputy chief editor Olga Rudenko told Euromaidan...
Ukraine’s largest English-language newspaper Kyiv Post reports that its owner, Adnan Kivan, is shutting down the newspaper “for a short time.” “One day, we hope to reopen the newspaper bigger and better,”...
On May 18, Belarusian authorities raided the editorial office of Tut.by, the country’s largest independent news outlet. They took away reporters’ computers and mobile phones and blocked Tut.by’s website. Around twelve...
An English-language version of the documentary “The Murder of Gongadze: 20 Years of Searching for the Truth” is being released for World Press Freedom Day. The film by Ukrainian journalists Nataliya Gumenyuk, Maxim Kamenev, and...
On 30 August, self-proclaimed president-elect of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka celebrated his 66th birthday. Dozens of thousands of Belarusians protesting against rigged elections for the 22nd day in a row brought him birthday presents...
Belarusian 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 themselves in great...
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...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
