Opinion

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. Of National Myths By ‘myths’ in this sense I do not mean legends of knights […]

''The war will not end until the last soldier killed in the war has been buried.'' The latest opinion from Ukraine about current state of deal by Olha Bohomolets - Head of the Parliamentary Commission on Health and Advisor to the President on Humanitarian Affairs for lb.ua.

German historians are researching the real history of Ukraine. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.

They started their military service with the 95th Brigade Military Assault Troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They became the core of the 90th Airmobile Battalion of the 81st Brigade, the first brigade to be created in the twenty-plus years of Ukraine's independence.

After the collapse of the USSR Russia held a monopoly over the right to be called the victor over Nazism. Now is the time to tell the world the truth. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.

Perhaps before long every "citizen of the DNR" will be forced to carry a collection of quotes from Big Brother at all times? A letter from occupied Donetsk, conflict zone in eastern Ukraine by Anton Averchenko, engineer working in a defense plant, city of Donetsk for radiosvoboda.org.

To-the-point and frank-wrap-up speech of David Kramer, Senior Director for Human Rights & Democracy with the McCain Institute on the closing day of Kyiv Security Forum enjoyed full attention of the audience. EMPR caught up with Mr. Kramer on the margins of forum to hear his grounded take on what the U.S. should be doing and does not currently do […]

A letter from occupied Donetsk, conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, about life so-called Donetsk People Republic (DPR), new orders and terrible reality for the ordinary citizens. By Mykola Mykolaienko, Engineer from Horlivka for radiosvoboda.org.

A group of anonymous Ukrainian activists staged a "vacation" inside the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At the opening of the largest forum of contemporary art in the world, the pavilion occupied by the Russian Federation was invaded by people wearing military uniforms with a badge that said "on vacation."

Today the world faces a deeply corrupt Russian state where state control of the media is almost total, where control of major financial and resource assets resides almost exclusively close ‘friends’ many of whom have have KGB or St Petersburg connections (or both) going some way back, where increasingly neo nationalism is encouraged by the State up to a form […]