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December editorial. When discussing Russian politics, it is usually only a matter of time before the conversation shifts to ‘propaganda’, ‘fake news’ and ‘disinformation’. From flat out denials [...]

Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.

Pavlo Cherchatyi on how Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 became a catalyst for a uniting Ukrainian national identity.

When Volodymyr Zelensky won the Presidential election, one of his key promises was to end the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Upon his unconventional methods and a more moderate stance than [...]

I went to Crimea alone for the first time in 2015. I took a backpack and my friend’s iPod with the complete Talk Talk discography.  I call this series “Coming of Age” – [...]

As if pressures on Ukraine’s healthcare sector weren’t high enough due to COVID-19, on March 30th, Ukraine’s Ministry of Health lived through another shake-up — it got a new minister. Forty-four [...]

Another day, another army of tourist buses. Such is the new normal in the Zone: the 1000-square-mile exclusion zone in northern Ukraine, created by the Soviet authorities after the fatal [...]

Michael Cole on how hard-right figures have used cats to soften their image.

– On 1 September, Ukraine’s Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum marked its first day of studies, welcoming female cadets for the first time since it was founded. The school now accepts girls from the [...]

– On May 15th, Ukraine responded to Moscow’s ban on the sale and transportation of Ukrainian produce by introducing economic sanctions on certain Russian goods. The list of sanctioned goods [...]