Yulia Abibok works as a freelance journalist in Ukraine. She is currently writing a thesis on Donbas regional identity at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and is working on a book on the events of 1943-1944 in Ukrainian Galicia.
Since 2014, people living in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions have had limited voting rights in both national and local elections. And there is now a danger of their losing these rights altogether. RU
Ukraine and Russia are mired in a self-perpetuating conflict. Ukrainian and Russian activists recognise the problem, but will they be able to overcome it? RU