In 2021, Ukraine moved down one spot in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and now ranks 122nd out of 180 countries on the CPI list. What is behind this assessment, should we worry about it, and what…
February 16, 2022
Last year, Russian authorities continued the crackdown on rights and freedoms. Ahead of the elections in the country, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service added fuel to the flame, saying that Russia’s pensioners became even…
January 19, 2022
On Friday, EU ambassadors in Brussels decided to remove Ukraine from the travel “safe list” due to the deteriorating epidemic situation in the country and a significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases. RFE/RL’s…
November 5, 2021
Ukraine acceded to two international agreements adopted at the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow. In particular, according to the Conference website, official Kyiv supported the agreement to end and reverse…
November 3, 2021
Ukraine received more than $2.7 billion from the IMF within the allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to assist IMF member countries in the restoration of the economy affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The funds…
August 26, 2021
Three-quarters of Ukrainians say they are happy people. This is evidenced by the data of the all-Ukrainian sociological survey “Who we are: a study of Ukrainian society on the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence,” conducted…
August 20, 2021
Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking in persons, but the government is trying to change that. “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination…
August 13, 2021
The problem of Crimea’s overpopulation is among the reasons that affected the water balance of the peninsula and caused water shortages, along with global warming, last year’s drought, military expansion of the occupier, and failed “management” of the…
August 11, 2021
The militarisation of Russia and Kremlin-favoured military-patriotic upbringing bear fruit. However, the consequences are very far from those desirable. Instead of love for the homeland, teenagers are instilled only with aggressive moods and illusions of all-permissiveness,…
August 4, 2021
Director of NGO Belarusian House in Ukraine, Belarusian citizen Vitaly Shishov, was found hanged in one of Kyiv’s parks near his place of residence. According to the Kyiv police, Vitaly’s mobile phone and personal belongings were…
August 4, 2021
Ukrainian border guards exposed a multimillion hryvnias scheme for smuggling and counterfeiting medicines across Ukraine’s state border. In particular, they discovered a large-scale, transnational channel for smuggling medicines across the state border of Ukraine with…
August 3, 2021
Online safety is an extremely pressing issue of the present-day world. After all, it is difficult to imagine our lives without a digital environment. However, society gets a lot of problems along with information from…
July 28, 2021
The ambassadors of the European Union have approved an updated list of countries for which coronavirus-related travel restrictions to the EU should be lifted. Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine are on the list. “EU ambassadors…
July 14, 2021
For more than 15 years, the end of April has been marked by the World Immunization Week – the initiative of the World Health Organization. This year, in addition to promoting routine immunization, World Immunization…
July 13, 2021
One and a half million Ukrainian adults are domestic violence victims. This is evidenced by a sociological survey conducted jointly by the Ukrainian Institute for the Future with New Image Marketing Group. Citizens mostly believe…
July 13, 2021
In June, the Ukrainian State Air Traffic Services Enterprise served 21,113 flights, accounting for 59.6% of the June 2019 flights. The May level was 56.6% of the same period in 2019. This indicates smooth positive dynamics…
July 8, 2021
Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko and Senior Country Officer at World Bank Ukraine Klavdiya Maksymenko signed the agreement on granting Ukraine a $350 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the…
June 29, 2021
Authorities of the People’s Republic of China have threatened to block the supply of at least 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine due to Kyiv’s support for a document on the human rights of…
June 26, 2021
According to demographic projections, the share of people aged 60 and over in Ukraine will be 43.4% by 2025 and about 46% in 2030. However, unlike Europe, Ukraine has no comprehensive employment programmes for those…
June 23, 2021
The Ukrainian authorities have launched a process of vaccination against COVID-19 for those citizens of Ukraine who live in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and in Crimea and who belong…
June 5, 2021
