The city of Energodar and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have been occupied by the Russian army since the early days of the full-scale invasion despite the heroic resistance by local residents. Both the Russian diplomacy and the Russian military have a significant strategic advantage to take the identified dangerous object hostage, since the risks of an accident threaten the nuclear security of the entire region. On March 3, 2022, the Russian army entered Energodar and occupied Zapor...

Laws for voting abroad stipulate that Ukrainian citizens must travel in person to a polling station (located at an embassy or consulate) to cast their ballot on election day. Not only would this require many Ukrainians to travel hundreds of kilometers in some countries, but it would completely overwhelm the capacity of the polling stations to count them. As Aivazovska explained to Foreign Policy in an interview, diplomatic facilities “don’t have the human or financial resources for [holding v...

Last week (July 10–16), the NATO Summit was held in Vilnius. The participants adopted some important decisions for Ukraine. The allies approved a multi-year program of support for our country. They decided to establish the NATO-Ukraine Council and agreed to remove the requirement to implement the Membership Action Plan. During the summit, Ukraine received security guarantees from G7, several countries announced new military assistance packages worth more than 1.5 billion euros. The Allies ann...

Last week (July 3–9), Ukraine actively worked to get guarantees of NATO ⁠accession at the Alliance summit in Vilnius to be held on July 11–12. Five commanders who defended Mariupol returned from Turkey to Ukraine. This caused public hysteria in the Kremlin, as well as the decision taken by the United States to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine.

In view of the aforesaid, it is critically important to get an understanding of the specifics of media consumption habits assumed by different groups  of civil society of Ukraine. Indeed, any measures aimed at disseminating reliable news from official sources and counteracting disinformation will prove ineffective, if they are not implemented on the platforms actively used by civil society for media consumption purposes. Therefore, we take this opportunity to present the results of a research...

Human rights lawyers, public and cultural activists discussed human rights during the war, their cooperation over the year of joint effort, achievement and accomplishments during the All-Ukrainian Human Rights Forum “Legion of Law.” The event was organized by the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets. The event was opened by a UNDP Resident Representative Jaco Cilliers, Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori, and Ambassador of Denmark Ole Egberg Mikkelse...

The role of digital technologies in politics keeps growing. As a result, the risk of misusing them for political campaigning is augmenting, too. It offers new opportunities and challenges for electoral actors. The issues of political finance in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and Armenia were discussed during the two-day regional conference “Money in Politics 2023. Online Campaign Finance: Challenges and Solutions” taking place in Moldova, on July 6-7.

As of June 2023, 8,177 mln citizens of Ukraine stayed abroad. It is about 20% of the country’s population before February 24, 2022. The data comes from the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided to the request of Civil Network OPORA. However, there are no precise numbers of Ukrainian migrants abroad because different institutions use different counting methodologies. OPORA analyzed and compared all available data in order to get as accurate indicators as possible.