The childhood: Communists, birth of oligarchs In the first years of Ukraine’s independence, the Communist Party managed to keep its influence. First and foremost, communists prevented Ukraine from declaring the restoration of its...
“We Create the Country We Want to Live In” is the slogan of a very special Ukrainian informal school – one that offers a program for 13-15-year-olds to become Agents of Change. The slogan was conceived by the...
The clock shows almost 6 am. This is time when Mykyta usually gets up. He starts each day with morning exercises and hot coffee. “For today, I have plans to go to Troyitske, to talk with the regional community, ask what problems...
On 14 June Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelian and CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Dirk Ahlborn signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on the Hyperloop project. The agreement foresees the...
Three years after the beginning of the de facto war in Donbas, Ukrainians are starting to fix the fundamental problems in society which made the war possible. Some of these problems were the stereotypes of Ukrainians living...
The total amount of investments in Ukrainian IT startups in 2017 increased to $265 million, representing a 231% increase from 2016. The data are published in the report “The Dealbook of Ukraine” by the venture fund AVentures...
On 21 February the Free Academy of Change in Kyiv hosted a discussion called “Ukraine and Reform: A Success or a Farce?” Oleksander Paskhaver, an economist and advisor to three Presidents of Ukraine, Yaroslav Hrytsak, a...
The question of media freedom and independence as an important aspect of democracy has been discussed during the Second Media Conference of the Eastern Partnership, and will continue to be discussed during the Eastern European Summit in...
The maximum amount of financial support offered by this programme amounts to $18,800. Half of the amount is allocated by the regional budget, and half is allocated by the local territorial community or district authorities from the local...
Ukrainian churches have been gaining in recent years as ever more people have chosen to leave the parishes of the Moscow Patriarchal Church in that country, Chaplain Mykola Medynskyi says; but if the Ukrainian government were to ban the...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
