On 23 April, Russian President Putin signed a decree on the imposition of measures of influence (counteraction) in response to unfriendly actions by foreign states. He ordered to limit or, if necessary, to prohibit the […]
11.05.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In early February, German Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier defended Berlin’s decision to pursue completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in part by arguing that fuel sales were one of the last bridges between Russia and […]
07.05.2021 • Natalia Tolub
I have a lot of stories about the spring and summer of 1986, suffice for a few short novels. For now, I will limit myself to an excerpt I wrote for the book “Hennadiy Matsuka: […]
28.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
YouControl experts added sanctions lists of the most influential subjects of international law to the system and determined the number of Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians on them. They also defined the reasons for falling under […]
26.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Promote Ukraine continues to publish research on Russian geopolitical activity in the form of "hybrid aggression." "Hybrid war" differs from classical conventional war by another combination of traditional elements of war and the use of completely […]
21.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Today, it is quite common to interpret Russia's geopolitical activity in the form of "hybrid aggression" as a qualitatively new phenomenon that is unique to our time. But does such a reflection correspond to the real […]
19.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In February 2014, armed men in unmarked uniforms appeared in Crimea, seizing the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, the Simferopol Airport, the Kerch Ferry Terminal, and other strategic facilities, as well as blocking […]
14.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
If Ukraine starts military operations in Donbas, Russia will not leave Donbas residents without help and will send in Russian troops. This harsh statement was made by Deputy Head of the Administration of the President […]
12.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
About 40,000 people live in the town of Toretsk, Donetsk region, and surrounding villages. From time to time, all of them are left without drinking water, sometimes for several hours, sometimes for several weeks, and […]
07.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia has suddenly started preparing for full-scale war in Ukraine, but what does its president, Vladimir Putin, really want? "Will it happen or not? Let's wait and see. In the West, they don't know what […]
06.04.2021 • Natalia Tolub
After the occupation of Crimea and Donbas, Ukraine has repeatedly been the target of cyber attacks by the Russian Federation. In 2016 and 2017, Ukraine suffered economic losses to the tune of more than $10 billion as […]
05.04.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 25 February, Antoni Macierewicz, the head of the Committee for the Re-Investigation of the Smolensk Plane Crash, former Polish defence minister and incumbent MP, made a statement at the Polish Sejm, saying that the […]
31.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
While the security situation significantly improved in eastern Ukraine in the second half of 2020, a new United Nations (UN) report highlights a series of conflict and non-conflict related human rights violations throughout the country. […]
29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Marta Barandiy & Maryna Iaroshevych Where are we with Covid-19 today? In the early 2021, the global population, especially in the developed world, received a lot of positive signals about ‘back to normal’ being close. All […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Tokyo had a busy diplomatic schedule. Visits were made by the U.S. Secretary of State and the U.S. Secretary of Defence. Minister of Defence of Ukraine Andriy Taran also arrived in the capital of Japan, […]
22.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Attempted annexation of the Crimea by Russian Federation since 2014 has been condemned in a series of international acts, including UN GA resolutions 68/262, 75/192, 75/29 and others, resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of […]
22.03.2021 • Natalia Tolub
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Recently, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov made a statement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Russia's accession to the Council of Europe. However, Russia, which joined this international […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
IBM Security has released the annual 2021 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. It demonstrates how the nature of cyberattacks changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when attackers sought to profit from an unprecedented socio-economic situation […]
11.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
While working on one of my projects, I reread the reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and took note of how often (perhaps more often than with other missions) the Russian occupiers […]
09.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak