Smear campaign against Ukrainian anti-corruption NGO intensifies. Is the state involved?
The war against anti-corruption activists intensified in Ukraine. And its methods are now so convoluted that it is…
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Washington becomes first US state to recognize Holodomor as genocide
On 22 May 2017, the Washington State Senate approved a resolution calling Holodomor “genocide by Stalin’s regime against…
Facebook to counter Kremlin-style info interventions in election campaigns
The document acknowledges that governments or organized non-state actors take to Facebook to “distort domestic or foreign political…
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…
“Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine discussed in Bundestag
On 19 May 2017, Germany’s Green party initiated debates on the topic of Germany’s historical responsibility towards Ukraine. The…
Ukrainian and Dutch NGOs call upon the Dutch Senate to ratify EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
Ukrainian and Dutch NGOs called upon the Dutch Senate to vote for the ratification of the Association Agreement…
Ukraine bans the St. George’s ribbon as a “symbol of Russian aggression”
On 16 May 2017, Ukrainian lawmakers banned the St.George’s ribbon, a controversial emblem of the Second World War…
What EU countries can Ukrainians now visit without a visa? | Infographic
On 17 May 2017, the legislative act finalizing the visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU was signed…
EU officially signs visa liberalization regime for Ukraine
On 17 May 2017, an official ceremony took place in the European Parliament to sign the legislative act…
Ukraine extends sanctions, blocks popular Russian web services and software companies
President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree dated 15 May 2017 enacting the decision of the NSDC (National…
Investigative documentary on journalist’s murder finds leads that cops didn’t, traces to SBU
When Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was murdered in Kyiv on 20 July 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said that…
Moscow deaf to 3 years of international outcry to free imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker
Abduction in occupied Crimea On May 10, 2014, Oleg Sentsov, along with three other Ukrainian citizens (Kolchenko, Chyrniy,…
There is #NoEurovisionFor 44 Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin
As the Eurovision song contest descended on Kyiv, a group of activists launched a campaign to alert the…
Egyptian mummies found in Kyiv Cathedral
A truly historical discovery. Two Egyptian mummies along with elaborately decorated sarcophagi were found in Kyiv’s Pechersk Lavra.…
Russia’s exported “Immortal Regiment” marches accused of being part of hybrid war against Ukraine
History of the “Immortal regiment” In 2012, Sergei Kolotovkin, Sergei Lapenkov, and Igor Dmitriev, Russian journalists from the…
Psycho-drama theater allows Romani women to work through trauma
Theater is one of the most potent tools in healing psychological trauma. UATV has a report about one…
Council of Europe demands Russia reinstate Crimean Tatar Mejlis, allow leaders to enter Crimea
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has passed a decision regarding Crimea, in which it condemns the…
Russian troops unconstitutionally occupy Moldovan territory – Constitutional Court
On 2 May 2017, the Constitutional Court of Moldova delivered the judgment on the interpretation of an article…
Who is Zeytullaev, the Crimean Tatar Russia just sentenced to 12 years without a crime?
For three weeks prior to the second sentence, Ruslan was on hunger strike protesting against the state terror…