War

How international media helps Russia and why it is a problem

Media is one of the many tools that Russia uses in hybrid war. The aggressor country has tamed its mass media making it a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. Unfortunately, Russian propaganda has reached international platforms as well, including respected media...

Potentially Unacceptable: How Online Platforms Limit the Content of Ukrainians

The algorithms of the most popular social networks went crazy at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now, algorithms seem to constantly limit the content about the Russian-Ukrainian war, accounts of Ukrainian activists get deleted, and at the...

Královec. How the Czech Republic retakes the city of Kaliningrad.

With its imperial illness and limitless desire to expand territories, Russia caused a great deal of sorrow to other countries and peoples. In Central and Eastern Europe, it is difficult to find a country that has not been “steamrolled” by...

How Russian propaganda tries to discredit Ukrainians

Although the Russo-Ukrainian war began eight years before the full-scale invasion, the preconditions and facts of Russian aggressive actions against Ukraine and other independent states have accumulated for centuries. The information war had begun way before the enemy tanks entered...

The Fault of Russia: A Century of Deportations from Ukraine

Inspired by age-old imperial policy, endless territorial expansion and impunity, Russia’s rulers have been destroying and assimilating indigenous peoples of captured territories for centuries. One of the tools that Russia used and still uses against Ukrainians is deportation, which is...

Theatres and museums volunteering during the war

With the beginning of a full-scale war, art institutions in Ukraine have transformed the way they work. They began to approach the victory in multiple ways: providing the military and civilians with needed things, organizing shelters for internally displaced people,...

Reinvent the everyday: photo project of Igor Chekachkov

The war has changed the lives of all Ukrainians. Some still live in cities and villages where explosions do not stop, while others were forced to flee their homes due to enemy shelling. Some have a place to return to,...

The voices of occupation. Oleksandr. An abduction, an interrogation and a theatre festival

The voices of occupation – a series of stories from people who lived under occupation and managed to get out.

Our next hero is Oleksandr Knyha, a deputy of the Kherson regional state administration and theatre director. He and his family...