Opinion
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] On 13 October Kyivites met Rebecca Harms, Member of the European Parliament from Germany, co-chair of the Group of Greens/European Free Alliance and Ukraine’s long-standing supporter within the public meeting organized by Open Ukraine Foundation.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The war in Donbas [eastern Ukraine] is winding down. Now instead of sending “vacationers” to Donbas and instead of shelling towns and villages, Russia’s major efforts on the Ukrainian front will be concentrated on an endless tug of war around the Minsk Agreement and in destabilizing Ukraine.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Training camps for DNR and LNR terrorists are openly operating in Russia. Aside from providing training for the terrorists themselves, the ‘art of war’ is taught at the camps to school-age kids. Small arms are used in the training exercises. Among the instructors are well known war criminals as well as Russian Neo-Nazis who are guilty of torturing and […]
27 September, 2015 | 14:52 by – EMPR – On 3 September a bronze monument to a Romani person with a broom was installed in Mukacheve, Zakapattia region.
Nobody can forbid Putin from delivering a speech at the United Nations, just like almost 55 years ago, on October 12, 1960, nobody could prohibit Khrushchev from taking the podium and banging his shoe; or Castro from speaking for 4 1/2 hours on September 26, 1960; or Gaddafi, who in 2009 spoke for an hour and a half instead of […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Throughout human history, and the history of economics in particular, the countries that saw change coming and were ready to gamble everything to win in the high risk game of political and economic competition were the ones that had thriving economies.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]”Participating in the program ‘Horizon 2020‘ provides great opportunities by making available the financial resources which Ukrainian scientists have never had”.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Danielle Rosales is a Paris-based graphic designer of German and Cuban origin. Together with her colleague Robin Coenen she is working over a project designed to change perception of Mariupol’s urban space by its residents.
What was the role of Ukrainian volunteer battalions in the battles for Ilovaisk? And what is know a year after the bloodbath? Read an exclusive investigation by Yuriy Butusov, contributing editor in censor.net.
A key issue that will decide the future of the country is being settled – will Poroshenko cave in under the pressure of the EU and the US along with the parliamentary factions Samopomich and RP to change the constitution of Ukraine?
In the summer of 2014 I had the opportunity to chat with a number of people who were supporters of the "DNR." At that time the prevailing attitude toward the "DNR" was one of "discovery and learning" and it was possible to have open disagreements about the direction our region should choose and what kind of future we could expect. Worth reading story by Jerry Toms, resident of Makiivka, unemployed for radiosvoboda.
It is an interesting and much under researched fact that all nations have 'national myths'. In times of war these become particularly important: they become almost 'rocks of unity' around which all set aside previous disputes and make them a single people determined to resist.