The price for a clear conscience in Russia
Not being able to go home to your own country, to see your parents, to bury your loved…
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Defending our memory and pain from Russia’s Victory Day exploits
Over the past two years, many have written that the propaganda cult in Russia surrounding Victory Day is a…
I am Crimean Tatar, Crimea is Ukraine!
Activities of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People are banned by the so-called Supreme Court of Crimea, causing…
Dutch diplomat to Ukrainians: do not feel discouraged, with time you will prove your critics wrong
The referendum in my country rejecting the EU Association agreement with your country must have raised some bitter…
Open letter to the Dutch Prime Minister: do not give into populism
Dear Prime Minister Rutte, I am writing this open letter as a European citizen, believing in the unity…
Read this before you vote “nee”
During two months or so, we spread lots of appeals to the Dutch to vote "yes" in the…
When violation of law does not prevent from victory, Kryvyi Rih election example
Vilkul had got to the second round of the last fall local election and due to only…
Ukraine should shift from Cyrillic to Latin script, former Verkhovna Rada deputy says
To solidify its break from a Russia-dominated space, Ukraine should shift from the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian…
Ukrainian PEN-club appeals to Dutch for solidarity with a new democracy
The Ukrainian PEN-club members have appealed to their colleagues in The Netherlands to support a YES vote in…
Dutch referendum organizer playing with fear and ignorance
One of the organizers of the referendum in the Netherlands on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is a man…
I vote “yes” in the referendum on the treaty with Ukraine
First of all, I did not read the whole text but only a brief summary of the treaty.…
Rebecca Harms: Nation building is a bottom-up process in Ukraine
Your strong pro-Ukrainian position is unusual among European politicians. How do you get across the things you know…
Appeal of former political prisoner to the Dutch population: vote “yes”!
At the age of twenty-five I became a prisoner in a KGB prison. A Soviet judge found me…
Voting “no” in Dutch referendum means abandoning Eastern Ukraine
Two months to go until the Dutch referendum on the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.…
Putin’s Fixes and Fixations: Russia’s President Prefers Stalin to Lenin, Soviet History to Scandals
The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable…
Ukraine is really changing
One of the sayings the Romans used was “mens sana in corpore sano”, meaning “a healthy mind in…
Dutch referendum blessing for Putin’s “useful idiots”
For the past twenty-five years I have been working in Ukraine, mainly in the field of mental health…
How I stopped worrying and learned to love Ukraine’s system
People in Ukraine and elsewhere like to decry the ‘system’ that exists in Ukraine, that Maidan apparently stood…
Moscow disinformation escalating from mass media to Russian academic output
When most people think about Russian disinformation now, they think almost exclusively about stories directed to a mass…
A Ukrainian military chaplain’s candid reflections on Christmas
There was a time when I only knew such things by reading about them in books, or watching…