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Published in: oDRSerhiy Zhadan: “Donbas is more about revival than ruins”
The Ukrainian writer and poet shares his views on cultural policies and politics in Donbas.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionOn the edge of a European war, who gets to defend the state?
In Ukraine, the story of women like Maria Berlinska can help reevaluate what it means to “defend the state” during...
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Published in: ОД "Русская версия"In Ukraine’s Donbas, coronavirus is pushing people on both sides ever further apart
The war in Ukraine is now in its sixth year. Coronavirus has shut down the frontline crossing points that thousands...
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Published in: oDRIn frontline Ukraine, global pandemic puts people at unimaginable risk
Pensions, pandemic and war. This is eastern Ukraine's trilemma.
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Published in: oDRAs Ukraine’s frontline villages fight for economic survival, some even succeed
Frontline villages in southeastern Ukraine are under enormous pressure, but this one is finding ways to sustain...
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Published in: oDRIn eastern Ukraine, an information vacuum - and a debate over journalistic standards
In five years of conflict in eastern Ukraine, a second demarcation line has emerged – over information.
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Published in: oDROrganising for peace in Ukraine: an interview with Nina Potarska
For Potarska, listening to people on both sides of the frontline in eastern Ukraine is crucial for even tiny steps...
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Published in: oDROn Ukraine’s frontline, a village wants to have its original name back: New York
As Ukraine and Russia once again come to the negotiating table over the war in eastern Ukraine, a frontline town is...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionResistance, anxiety or hope? East Ukrainian civil society views on the Steinmeier formula
As people take to the streets to demonstrate against German-led plans for stopping the war in Donbas, the views of...
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Published in: oDRA Ukrainian obituary
More than five years since the war in Donbas started, how should we remember those who have died in it?Read in Ukrainian
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Published in: oDRThe war in eastern Ukraine left these people without homes. The state is yet to compensate them
Five years on from the start of the war, not a single Ukrainian family has managed to get compensation from the...
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Published in: oDR“The republic lives on and is managed by rumours”
After a series of sudden departures and murders in the “People’s Republics”, is Russia finally formalising its...
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Published in: oDRHow Ukraine’s “terrorist threat” is a real threat to civil rights
Since 2014, people living in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions have had limited voting rights in both national...
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Published in: oDRThe womanly face of war: the agency and visibility of Ukraine’s female soldiers
Women have played an active part in the war in Ukraine’s Donbas. But their role is yet to be recognised on its own terms.
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Published in: oDRTemporarily displaced pensions: how pensioners in Ukraine’s occupied territories survive against all odds
The Ukrainian state still lacks a mechanism for paying pensions to citizens who live in occupied terroritories. RU
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Published in: oDRThe growing gap between Ukraine and Russia – and the people trying to bridge it
Ukraine and Russia are mired in a self-perpetuating conflict. Ukrainian and Russian activists recognise the problem,...
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Published in: oDRGrowing up apolitical in Ukraine’s war zone
War, propaganda and misunderstanding — teenagers in Ukraine’s frontline towns are growing up under incredible...
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Published in: oDRAs Ukraine's women speak up on sexual violence, we must not ignore those affected by conflict
A new campaign is challenging taboos over speaking about sexual violence in Ukraine, but we need to include...