The stories from Kharkiv: the Museum of Civilian Voices of the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation

The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is located only 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. A large number of Russian-speaking people live in the city, but Kharkiv is not pro-Russian and does not support so-called “Russian world”. Probably, the enemy hasn’t forgiven Kharkiv for this. Since February 24, the city has been subjected to daily shelling. Local residents have a sad joke:…

Russia Achieves First Place as World’s No. 1 Terrorist State

Russia Terrorist State

Russia is the No. 1 terrorist country in the world. It could perhaps be more accurately described as an international criminal mafia organisation rather than a country. The Russian Federation illegally invaded Ukraine and has for the last 4 months been indiscriminately attacking civilians and their property throughout Ukraine in violation of all international law….

Kharkiv: City of Heroes

Kharkiv is a city of millions of people, beautiful landscapes, a city of scientific discoveries, large enterprises and clean streets. Kharkiv has many hallmarks: Freedom Square is the largest in Europe, the Gorky Recreation Park, the largest Ferris wheel in Ukraine and many others. It is also the original capital of Ukraine. The centre of…

From Podium to Humanitarian Powerhouse: Julia Gershun’s Battle for Ukraine’s Children

Julia Gershun

Former Ukrainian Miss Universe Julia Gershun has spent the last three months in tireless humanitarian efforts to evacuate women and children from Ukraine. The UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and founder of Peace Committee of Ukraine spoke to James Wilson about the urgent priorities ahead. Before the Russian attack on Ukraine in the early hours of 24…

EU Accession Perspective for Ukraine

Ryszard Legutko

The Co-Chairmen of the ECR Group in the European Parliament, Prof Ryszard Legutko (Poland) and Raffaele Fitto (Italy) say they strongly support the accession of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia to the EU.  “The granting of candidate status is an elementary stop signal to Russia that the times of post-Soviet imperialism are finally…

EU Candidate Status for Ukraine Agreed

von der Leyen

The European Commission has presented its Opinions on the application for EU membership submitted by Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova as invited by the Council.  Last Friday’s opinions are based on the Commission’s assessment in light of the three sets of criteria to join the EU agreed by the European Council: political criteria, economic criteria and…

Let’s Not Talk About 100 Days of War

Ukrainian Resistance

Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine has now passed more than 100 days, when the Russian leadership had previously talked about a “special military operation” that they bragged would be completed in 3 days. The Russian leadership now purposefully keeps silent about the war in Ukraine. They hope by this action to prevent anti-war protests within…

Fossil Fuels Companies Lobbying EU

CEO

Lobby watchdog Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) says it has obtained recent meeting documents from the European Commission (EC) that reveal that major fossil fuel companies are influencing the EU’s response to the energy crisis.  Minutes allegedly reveal that CEOs of six big energy companies – Shell, BP, Total, ENI, E.ON and Vattenfall – met President…