When Ukraine decided to join the Energy Community in 2010, it was a clear sign of its intention to become part of the European energy market and to build a competitive market with strong interconnections…
Vladyslav, 27, was injured in January 2015 when he went to a store in his hometown of Horlivka. Fighting was ongoing in the town, and a shell dropped a hundred metres from him. Since then, Vladyslav…
The Ukrainian Institute presented the results of the research within the framework of a comprehensive project to study the perception of Ukraine abroad. The project for the first time explores the attitude and expectations of foreign…
To date, Russia continues to illegally hold more than 100 Ukrainian citizens in custody for political reasons in the occupied Crimea and in the territory of the Russian Federation. As part of the information campaign “Loyalty to…
Vaccination Passports: Exclusive Interview of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal with Promote Ukraine
March 31, 2021
Recently, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine will introduce a vaccination passport. In meantime, the EU has already prepared the legal basis and even showed their citizens what the “passport” – the…
Russia does not have the needed amount of Sputnik V vaccine doses for its own population but is ready to sell the vaccine to any country, but it is unwilling to vaccinate its own citizens….
Ukraine got with the coronavirus crisis new chances: foreign companies, particularly European ones, are disappointed in some manufacturers and look for new partners in proximity, says Sergiy Tsivkach, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Government’s investment…
German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen: “Constitutional Crisis Is an Eye-Opener for Zelensky”
March 10, 2021
The recent ruling of the Ukrainian Constitutional Court on anti-corruption reforms created new impetus for judicial reform, and the G7 Reform Support Group works closely with the Ukrainian authorities on that, says Ambassador of the…
Food Crisis: $400B Worth of Food Wasted Globally Each Year
January 18, 2021
Impressive numbers show that people around the world throw away kilograms of food totalling USD 400 billion annually. In the EU, up to 30% of food goes to waste, causing global economic losses worth about…
Continuous Extreme: 2020 results and 2021 Expectations
January 1, 2021
The world is tired of quarantines, wars, conflicts and crises. This difficult year was remembered by unprecedented conditions and decisions. Promote Ukraine asked the experts what were the most important events for Ukraine in 2020….
A World without Children: Global Demographic Crisis in Ukraine
December 17, 2020
Most European countries have long suffered from a demographic crisis. Among them is Ukraine, which, according to the Countrymeters calculator, will lose 152,881 of its inhabitants this year alone. For many years, the low birth…
Judicial Crisis: Operation of Courts Blocked in Ukraine
December 9, 2020
YouControl analytical system experts have counted 80 courts which have so far announced the termination of dispatch of letters to litigants. That is, about 15% of Ukrainian courts no longer send inquiries necessary to ensure…
MEPs Ask for New Sanctions Against Regime Officials in Belarus
December 3, 2020
European parliamentarians strongly condemn the continuous human rights violations by state authorities in Belarus. In a debate in the European Parliament, MEPs and experts discussed the international efforts to investigate human rights abuses and seek…
Ukraine is plunged into another crisis after the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional provisions on anti-corruption efforts among which is criminal liability for inaccurate declaration of assets. The court also deprived the National Agency on Corruption…
Ukraine’s Constitutional Court’s scandalous decision to abolish electronic declaration and thus remove criminal liability for declaring unreliable information has disappointed Ukrainian society. After all, this is a significant step back in the state’s anti-corruption policy….
Ukrainian Education: Pros and Cons
November 5, 2020
Today, Ukrainian education often meets the modern demands of neither an individual and the society nor the economy needs or world trends. Despite this, in 2020, six Ukrainian universities entered the world’s top 1000 best…
Why Is Ukraine Interesting to the Three Seas Initiative?
November 2, 2020
The Three Seas Initiative has turned from an idea into an ambitious project over the past few years. Ukraine was invited to the Initiative’s first summit in Dubrovnik (Croatia) in 2016 but did not delegate…
MEPs: EU Countries Must Stop Selling Their Passports
October 28, 2020
At the end of October, the European Commission launched infringement procedures against Cyprus and Malta to stop their so-called “golden passport” schemes which allow people to acquire citizenship of these countries through a pre-determined payment,…
Ukrainian Military Plans to Buy American Fighters
October 26, 2020
Ukraine plans to purchase a squadron of American fighter planes. Serhiy Drozdov, the commander of Ukraine’s JAF air forces, reported this in an interview. According to him, Ukraine is unlikely to create its own aircraft…
Ukraine Is on Fire
October 23, 2020
This year, a record number of fires were registered in Ukraine, which mainly occurred in the Eastern and Southern regions. What are the reasons for the intensification of fires in 2020? What impact do they…
