Russian Aggression
Russian Aggression
September 27, 2018
How Russia is trying to change the Council of Europe, instead of changing itself - interview
UkraineWorld continues its focus on Russia’s attempts this year to return to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
Moscow is trying achieve...
Russian Aggression
September 19, 2018
Russia is Undermining Europe’s Key Democratic Institution
After a period of silence, Russia is now taking new steps to return to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, which sanctioned Moscow for annexing Crimea...
Russian Aggression
September 7, 2018
Why Russia’s return to Europe’s key body is dangerous. In 10 Questions and Answers
After Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and occupation of part of Ukrainian Donbas, the country faced sanctions from the West, including from the US and from...
Russian Aggression
August 15, 2018
Sentsov’s Predecessors: Soviet-era Prisoners of Kremlin
You may have heard the names Oleh Sentsov, Pavlo Hryb, Volodymyr Balukh – three among 70 Ukrainians illegally detained by the Kremlin. They were imprisoned simply...
Russian Aggression
July 26, 2018
Abducted and illegally detained: the story of Pavlo Hryb, another Ukrainian prisoner of the Kremlin
On 23 July, the Russian authorities began the trial of Pavlo Hryb, a 19-year-old Ukrainian citizen who was abducted from Belarus by Russian security services. After...
Russian Aggression
June 18, 2018
Applebaum: Russia Tries To Undermine Europe From Within
Anne Applebaum is an American-Polish journalist and writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, columnist at Washington Post and author of numerous books, in particular on Eastern...
Russian Aggression
June 18, 2018
Digital Society, Cybersecurity, And Anti-Disinformation – Interview with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia (2006-2016)
Estonians routinely pay their taxes and retrieve medical prescriptions online – but despite its reliance on the Internet for such sensitive electronic transactions,...
Russian Aggression
June 14, 2018
Ukrainian Volunteer Speaks About Her Experience
Journalist Olha Reshetylova was one of the first people, back in spring 2014, to join the volunteer movement to support the Ukrainian army in Donbas. She was a coordinator...
Russian Aggression
May 10, 2018
No Longer a Soldier: Ukraine’s Returned Volunteers Are Embracing Second and Third Careers
“Finding myself in Kyiv now, I smell blood and diesel from time to time. These triggers will always be there,” says Alina Viatkina, a paramedic for the volunteer...
Russian Aggression
May 2, 2018
The Forgotten Faces of Those Left Behind in the Donbas
"In the area of Avdiivka, you can hear 120 millimeter mortar shelling, while just 500 or 600 meters away, there is a bus stop with children waiting for a school...