The analytical platform VoxUkraine, together with the Belgium-based NGO Promote Ukraine, studied the impact of coronavirus restrictions on the communication activity of NGOs in Ukraine and Europe, as well as the impact of a full-scale […]
14.10.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2021, Ukraine moved down one spot in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and now ranks 122nd out of 180 countries on the CPI list. What is behind this assessment, should we worry about it, and what […]
16.02.2022 • 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
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
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 Korsaks’ Museum of Contemporary Ukrainian Art impresses Europeans because it features Ukrainian art at a completely different level. The museum also impresses Ukrainians, because it shows them their contemporary art - unique, deep, meaningful, […]
10.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Friday, EU ambassadors in Brussels decided to remove Ukraine from the travel “safe list” due to the deteriorating epidemic situation in the country and a significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases. RFE/RL’s […]
05.11.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine received more than $2.7 billion from the IMF within the allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to assist IMF member countries in the restoration of the economy affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The funds […]
26.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons, but the government is trying to change that. “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination […]
13.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian border guards exposed a multimillion hryvnias scheme for smuggling and counterfeiting medicines across Ukraine's state border. In particular, they discovered a large-scale, transnational channel for smuggling medicines across the state border of Ukraine with […]
03.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Online safety is an extremely pressing issue of the present-day world. After all, it is difficult to imagine our lives without a digital environment. However, society gets a lot of problems along with information from […]
28.07.2021 • Natalia Tolub
The ambassadors of the European Union have approved an updated list of countries for which coronavirus-related travel restrictions to the EU should be lifted. Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine are on the list. “EU ambassadors […]
14.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
For more than 15 years, the end of April has been marked by the World Immunization Week - the initiative of the World Health Organization. This year, in addition to promoting routine immunization, World Immunization […]
13.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In June, the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise served 21,113 flights, accounting for 59.6% of the June 2019 flights. The May level was 56.6% of the same period in 2019. This indicates smooth positive dynamics […]
08.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko and Senior Country Officer at World Bank Ukraine Klavdiya Maksymenko signed the agreement on granting Ukraine a $350 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the […]
29.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Authorities of the People's Republic of China have threatened to block the supply of at least 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine due to Kyiv’s support for a document on the human rights of […]
26.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to demographic projections, the share of people aged 60 and over in Ukraine will be 43.4% by 2025 and about 46% in 2030. However, unlike Europe, Ukraine has no comprehensive employment programmes for those […]
23.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the data of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukrainian labour migrants have transferred $8.5 billion home from abroad this year. Over the past year, they transferred almost $16 billion to their homeland. The […]
14.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian authorities have launched a process of vaccination against COVID-19 for those citizens of Ukraine who live in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and in Crimea and who belong […]
05.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The coronavirus crisis has caused significant socio-economic shifts in Western and Northern Europe. According to the European Central Bank, the EU had to allocate EUR 3.7 trillion for European economy support and post-pandemic recovery over […]
02.06.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak