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Austria prosecuted Ukrainian for drone shipments to Ukraine, but court said not guilty

An Austrian court cleared a Ukrainian refugee accused of violating laws by delivering commercial drones to his hometown, which Austria claimed were military supplies.

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Ukrainian volunteer jailed to 18 years in Russia

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Ukrainian citizen Dmytro Holubiev to 18 years in a…

byOlena Mukhina

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Crimean Tatar political prisoner requires urgent medical assistance, human rights defenders say

Crimean Tatar Remzi Memetov who was sentenced to 8.9 years in prison by the Russian occupation authorities needs…

byOlena Mukhina

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Culture of Ukraine

Lviv’s Forbidden Music project proves totalitarian regimes cannot control people’s minds – Swedish composer

We sat down to talk with Swedish conductor and music director Daniel Hansson, who also teaches at…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Ukrainian music forbidden under Soviets comes to limelight in international project

Since the beginning of 2021, a young, driven team of music enthusiasts in Lviv has been working on…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Secret service documents from Ukraine, Georgia & former Czechoslovakia reveal persecution of East European intellectuals

The Ukrainian documents reveal interesting facts about writer and humourist Ostap Vyshnia, filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko, monumentalist artist Mykhailo…

byUkrainian media sources

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After gutting independent media, Lukashenka regime comes after human rights activists

In the past week, Belarusian journalists and activists opposing regime have been living in a nightmare. The country…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Ukrainian World Congress severs ties with Russian chapters after being designated as “undesirable organization”

At an extraordinary meeting on July 10, 2021, the UWC Board of Directors voted to suspend the membership…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Prosecutors step back as thousands of supporters rally for Poroshenko

During Poroshenko’s remarks to his supporters gathered outside the courthouse, Poroshenko directly addressed President Zelenskyy: I want to…

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Ukrainian politics

Ukraine moves one step closer to jailing its former president; his supporters bring on the caricatures

Accusation of exceeding power The notice of suspicion as presented by the Prosecutor General also states that Poroshenko…

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Ukrainian politics

Whistleblower from Zelenskyy’s party slammed with five criminal proceedings

MP Geo Leros, who published the videos, and his role in the presidential team Leros is a visual…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering a speech from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada. Kyiv, 4 March 2019. Photo: president.gov.ua

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Ukrainian politics

Political persecution sharpens in Ukraine as first MP faces “preliminary penal measures”

Previous article: Critics of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy face criminal charges The alarming case of MP Sofiya Fedyna MP…

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History of Ukraine

The tragic destiny of the Krushelnytsky family, annihilated by the communist regime

Photo of the Krushelnytsky-Levytsky family Sitting (from left to right): Volodymyra Krushelnytska – dermatologist, publicist, editor, public and…

byChristine Chraibi

The sign says in Ukrainian: "The Donetsk Diocese of The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate." Photo: Andriy Bashtovyy / RadioSvoboda.Org (RFE/RL)

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Donbas occupiers doing to Ukrainian Church what they accuse Kyiv of doing to Moscow one

The so-called “Donetsk Peoples Republic” is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of…

byPaul A. Goble

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NGOs worldwide call upon Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists

NGOs from Europe, USA, and other countries call upon the Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists in…

byCivic Sector Organizations

Russian FSB secret police and paramilitaries suppress any open dissent in Crimea and actively search for any hidden resistance to the occupation. Beside using the judicial system to enforce the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian peninsula, they employ secret abductions and extrajudicial killings of Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian activists. (Image: GordonUA.com)

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Russians persecuting ethnic Ukrainians and other ethnic groups, leading rights groups say

Russia’s leading human rights groups say that ethnic Russians are now actively discriminating against ethnic Ukrainians even though…

byPaul A. Goble

One of "Potemkin village" buildings where only the central street-facing facade is maintained while the rest of it is let to crumble to pieces in Norilsk, Russia (Image: tema.ru)

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Russia, known for Potemkin villages, is now ‘a garden of fig leaves,’ Yerofeyev says

Russia gave the world the Potemkin village, in which officials tried to cover up problems from those above…

byPaul A. Goble

Crimean Tatars attend a pro-Ukraine rally in Simferopol during the Russian special operation to annex Crimea. March 14, 2014.

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Ukrainians in Crimea: Six sanctions for refusing a Russian passport

What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet…

byUkrayinska Pravda

Ildar Dadin being brought into police precinct after one of his single-person protests (Image: social media)

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Dadin case has given a face to the horrific practice of torture in Putin’s prisons

In a tragic confirmation of truth behind Stalin’s dictum that a single death is a tragedy but a…

byPaul A. Goble

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Authorities ready to demolish only Ukrainian church in Russia

The City Court of Noginsk (Moscow region) has ruled to demolish the Orthodox Holy Trinity Church that is…

byKseniya Kirillova