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Ukrainian marathon of freedom: to civil activist and volunteers
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]This is a deeply personal message, but a message that is important for everyone. Including for our friends in Belorusia, Russia and Kazakhstan.
Oct 29, 2015

Rebecca Harms: you must work to bridge the gap between civil society and institutions
[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.
Oct 21, 2015

Theater of war: Russian efforts on the Ukrainian front
[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…
Oct 19, 2015

Report from Russia: training camp for DNR and LNR terrorists
[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…
Oct 13, 2015

Controversial monument in Mukacheve reveals problems of local Roma community
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.
Sep 27, 2015
putin has decided to battle the united states

Putin has decided to battle the United States
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…
Sep 25, 2015

Finding friends in quest to rebuild Ukrainian nation
[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…
Sep 19, 2015

Ukrainian Science Takes a Leap To Europe
[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”.
Sep 9, 2015

International artists catalyze changes to urban space of Mariupol. Interview with German artist Danielle Rosales
[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.
Aug 27, 2015
Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed armored vehicles during Ilovaisk battle illustrating Donbas cauldron and 2014 war devastation

To the memory of Ilovaisk bloodbath: what is known a year after?
A year after Ilovaisk, investigations question command decisions, battlefield chaos, and disputed casualty figures in one of the deadliest episodes of the Donbas war.
Aug 20, 2015
Political analysis of Ukraine under Poroshenko examining Western influence and comparisons to Iraq instability scenario

The West is pushing Poroshenko to make Ukraine the ‘Iraq of eastern Europe’
Could Western pressure push Ukraine toward instability? This controversial analysis compares the country’s trajectory to Iraq—raising urgent geopolitical questions.
Aug 2, 2015

A letter from occupied Donbass
A letter from occupied Donbass: Conversation with a businessman/separatist a year after. In the summer of 2014 I had the opportunity to chat with a number of people who were supporters of the “DNR.”
Jul 30, 2015

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