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How the IAEA does (not) work: a history of failures of the “peaceful atom” defenders

For over a year, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, has been occupied by Russian forces. Humanity has been on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe for over a year. This is the first...

Atlantis Mariupol: an interview with a film director Valentyn Vasyanovych

Filming in Mariupol, several frames of the Azovstal plant, and prophecy of the full-scale war — this is how the film Atlantis was created.

Powerful Quotes from the Heavenly Regiment of Ukraine

The Russian Federation’s current war against Ukraine began with the shootings on the Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity. At that time, the Heavenly Hundred appeared in Ukraine — these people who were killed during the Maidan Revolution. The names...

Ukraine Through the Eyes of John Sweeney

Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features John Sweeney, a British writer, reporter, and formerly investigative journalist at BBC, currently covering the Russian war against Ukraine. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on Russia’s systematic...

Kherson Art or inspired by Polina Raiko

Outside the metropolis, contemporary art is more of an exception than a norm. However, the artists behind the Polina Raiko Charitable Fund and the Kherson Museum of Contemporary Art are challenging this notion. In a regular Kherson apartment, Viacheslav Mashnytskyi...

Mariupol: News from the Occupied City

The whole world was watching the siege of Mariupol and Azovstal. The full-scale invasion turned this once-flourishing city with a population of 500,000 into a devastated wasteland occupied by the Russian army, with no more than 100,000 residents remaining. The...

Krymchaks of Ukraine. Who are they?

Krymchaks are an indigenous people of Ukraine that emerged on the Crimean Peninsula alongside Crimean Tatars and Karaites. Their primary distinguishing feature is their faith: they practice Orthodox Judaism with Krymchak prayer rituals. The Krymchak population has always...

Memories from the occupied Bucha

Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel — names of these small towns in the outskirts of Kyiv are now known all over the world. It was there that the first brutal mass murders of Ukrainians were discovered, committed by the Russian military that...