Everyone has heard about the rows surrounding the construction and certification of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. This project embodies the Kremlin's economic and political expansion in the north. However, it is not the only […]
31.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
In their report "Forecast 2022," the experts of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future identified five crisis trends that will be particularly acute and determine the situation in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk […]
26.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The last week of diplomatic activities proved the strength and unity of Europe against the background of Russian ultimatums. The Kremlin did not get what it wanted. This is not surprising, given the illegitimate and […]
24.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Last year, Russian authorities continued the crackdown on rights and freedoms. Ahead of the elections in the country, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service added fuel to the flame, saying that Russia's pensioners became even […]
19.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Most Russians were looking forward to 2021. And this was not surprising. The pandemic completely changed the usual order and complicated the already difficult lives of millions of people. The poisoning of Navalny, which nearly […]
17.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The experts of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI) covered numerous cases of violations of freedom of speech in Ukraine in 2021. Of them, 145 cases involved physical aggression against journalists. For comparison: in 2020, IMI […]
12.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Security diplomacy is taking precedence over economic diplomacy. This is probably the key idea from the latest nationwide poll commissioned by the New Europe Center. Although Ukrainians see the course towards the EU as a […]
10.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Forecast 2022 report by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future was presented within the framework of the 3rd Alumni Forum of the Serhiy Nyzhny Kyiv School of Public Administration. The Forecast identifies four scenarios for developments in […]
05.01.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
This year has seen much work and also many achievements. I believe that the main accomplishment is the approval of comprehensive Ukraine's Foreign Policy Strategy for the first time in 30 years of independence. Why is this […]
30.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia continues playing its disinformation games aimed at forming a message about the "Ukrainian threat." The official website of Russia's FSB reported that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation had stopped the intelligence […]
22.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past six months, 45% of digital buyers in Ukraine have faced online fraud attempts. This figure is congruent with the activity of cyber criminals in the EU. OLX Ukraine, together with OLX Group colleagues from […]
15.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a stark ultimatum. In a number of recent statements, he has demanded that the United States make “reliable and firm legal guarantees” that NATO will not expand eastward—or else, […]
13.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
As of early 2014, the Crimean tourism sector was on the rise and was undoubtedly a leading industry in Crimea. Starting from 2010, the tourist flow reached a stable level of 5-6 million visitors per year, […]
08.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
With all due respect to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, menacing statements about our dire response are just yet another idle threat. And such threats make us funny. I want to highlight three very serious dangers caused by […]
01.12.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russian media, with their reporting system, remains an active mechanism for Russia’s hybrid aggression against Ukraine and other countries that Russia sees as a threat to itself. Since Russian society is the main target audience of […]
29.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The database of MarineTraffic, a popular online service for vessel tracking, indicates that the vessels of the Chornomornaftogaz fleet stolen from Ukraine belong to the SUE Chernomorneftegaz, which was illegally created by Russia. These data […]
24.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The remnants of Russian science have suffered a significant loss. On 1 November, Danish authorities detained the Russian research vessel Akademik Ioffe during a raid on the port of Skagen and confiscated court documents. The vessel […]
22.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the results of the interdisciplinary study "Policies and practices of honouring the memory of fallen soldiers in the Russia–Ukraine war in eastern Ukraine," conducted by the project "What it means to remember" with […]
17.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Against the background of the euphoria of pro-Kremlin media outlets and certain "mouthpieces" caused by the signing of the so-called integration decree of the Union State, the news report on a collective letter of 35 […]
15.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The press centre of the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center hosted a presentation "Analysis of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea for Nine months of 2021." The monitoring was conducted by the Crimean Tatar Resource […]
08.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak