YouControl experts added sanctions lists of the most influential subjects of international law to the system and determined the number of Ukrainians, Russians and Belarusians on them. They also defined the reasons for falling under…
What Is Behind Russia’s ‘Hybrid Aggression’? Part 2
April 21, 2021
Promote Ukraine continues to publish research on Russian geopolitical activity in the form of “hybrid aggression.” “Hybrid war” differs from classical conventional war by another combination of traditional elements of war and the use of completely…
What is Behind Russia's ‘Hybrid Aggression’?
April 19, 2021
Today, it is quite common to interpret Russia’s geopolitical activity in the form of “hybrid aggression” as a qualitatively new phenomenon that is unique to our time. But does such a reflection correspond to the real…
Water from Occupied Territory: How Human Rights Activists Defend Right to Drinking Water
April 7, 2021
About 40,000 people live in the town of Toretsk, Donetsk region, and surrounding villages. From time to time, all of them are left without drinking water, sometimes for several hours, sometimes for several weeks, and…
Why Does Putin Want a Ukraine Crisis?
April 6, 2021
Russia has suddenly started preparing for full-scale war in Ukraine, but what does its president, Vladimir Putin, really want? “Will it happen or not? Let’s wait and see. In the West, they don’t know what…
After the occupation of Crimea and Donbas, Ukraine has repeatedly been the target of cyber attacks by the Russian Federation. In 2016 and 2017, Ukraine suffered economic losses to the tune of more than $10 billion as…
Human Rights Situation in Ukraine Continues to Deteriorate Due to Hostilities and COVID-19 Pandemic
March 29, 2021
While the security situation significantly improved in eastern Ukraine in the second half of 2020, a new United Nations (UN) report highlights a series of conflict and non-conflict related human rights violations throughout the country….
Attempted annexation of the Crimea by Russian Federation since 2014 has been condemned in a series of international acts, including UN GA resolutions 68/262, 75/192, 75/29 and others, resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of…
In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to “foreigners” for alienation, expires in March. Human rights…
IBM Security has released the annual 2021 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. It demonstrates how the nature of cyberattacks changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when attackers sought to profit from an unprecedented socio-economic situation…
Vaccination and Its Safety: Who Is Responsible?
March 5, 2021
On February 23, 2020, VoxUkraine, jointly with Promote Ukraine (Brussels), held an open discussion on vaccination and the responsibility for it. Today, we find ourselves at the stage when ‘back to normal’ from the pandemic…
Ukraine-Japan: How to Ensure Efficient Global Partnership?
February 24, 2021
Perhaps, the past six years have been the best period in the history of Ukraine-Japan relations. However, the bilateral cooperation could have been even better if there had not been the Japanese purposeful policy of…
How Russia Is Destroying Health of Ukrainian Political Prisoners: Stories of Five in Most Critical State
February 22, 2021
The health of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Crimea and Russia is a matter of particular concern to human rights defenders. These people are the most vulnerable category of Ukrainian nationals as they actually are…
The Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” and an expert group, consisting of representatives of all Black Sea countries and the Maritime Expert Platform, monitored the security situation in the Black Sea region during 2020….
Russia’s Narratives 2020: Information Attacks On Ukraine
February 8, 2021
The year 2020 will go down in history books not only due to its eventfulness (coronavirus pandemic, tensions in the Middle East, protests in Belarus, the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, the US presidential election and other equally…
NGO Institute for Security Policy, Austrian Ministry of Defence, and Valdai-Club: Case Study on Russian Influence in Central Europe
February 8, 2021
In August 2018, Russian President Putin made headlines by dancing arm-in-arm with Austria’s Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding. The “friendliness” of Austria’s politicians with Russia is no coincidence – it is a result…
Nullification of Commitments to Russia: Forecast for Development of Post-Soviet States
February 1, 2021
The balance of power in the world is changing, as well as the situation at the regional level. This is important to understand for conducting a full analysis of trends and processes that will take…
Since the beginning of 2014, Ukraine has experienced many social upheavals that have changed Ukrainian society. The Revolution of Dignity strengthened national consciousness, and Russian aggression and occupation of territories made Ukrainians unite in opposition…
EU’s Eastern Partnership Deliverables: Recommendations from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
January 20, 2021
What should be the post-2020 Eastern Partnership deliverables, especially for the development of relations with Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine? A group of 37 EU, Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian researchers and think tank experts…
The Kremlin was actively forming Ukraine’s image as an enemy during 2013-2014 when they began to understand that it would not be able to control the situation in Ukraine. So, it needed to intervene, but…
