Almost fully destroyed by the Russians, Mariupol has been under occupation for a year. The Ukrainian information space receives little reports about the life of its inhabitants and the functioning of the infrastructure. However, we can see that Russia is trying to paint a picture of the “reconstruction” in the city. On the bones.

Whereas by February 2022, new pro-Russian channels had been appearing sporadically, such as several channels per month, after February 2022 they appeared almost daily, often more than one per day. In order to evaluate the content shared by the occupation Telegram resources, we randomly selected 100 channels and overviewed their content. It can be divided into the following thematic blocks.

Last week (May 29 – June 2), Ukraine continued to advocate for security guarantees on the way to NATO. It may become a reality on July 11–12, at the NATO summit in Vilnius.  Russia is nervous about the strengthening of Ukrainian positions in Africa. They refuse to withdraw troops from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and threaten instability if Ukraine becomes a NATO member. Indonesia is proposing their own “peace plan,” and Hungary is urging to disable a Ukrainian counteroffensive.  Whil...

How oppositionist is the Russian “Opposition”? What ideas do they share in the media, also in Ukrainian media where they are invited even after more than a year into the full-scale war? How does their activity impact the international opinion, and therefore the attitude to the Russian-Ukrainian war? OPORA team was looking for answers to these questions in a thorough study of the media activity of Russians who present themselves as opposition to the current Russian government.

The European Union, Member States and election bodies need to explore the possibilities to provide support for Ukraine to ensure millions of displaced voters from the Russian aggression can vote in postwar, according to a dialogue of European lawmakers, election management bodies and experts. This was the major recommendation of a Parliamentary Electoral Dialogue hosted by the European Parliament and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on th...

Head of Board of the Civil Network OPORA Olha Aivazovska spoke about this during two-day parliamentary dialogue on the topic "Challenges and needs in organizing voting abroad for the post-war elections in Ukraine".

In the end of March, 2022, OPORA published an investigation "The Clutches of Russian Fraudsters or Where the Compassion for the Killed Ukrainian Heroes Can Take You " on the activities of a large-scale network of pages that were growing their audience through the manipulative clickbait content, specifically abusing the information about the KIA Ukrainian soldiers.

Last week (May 22–28), the Russians were shocked that the war they started in Ukraine had spread to their territory. Russia denies the existence of Ukraine, continues to absorb Belarus through the alleged deployment of nuclear weapons there, and threatens Poland.  Following another regular meeting in the Ramstein format, we learned that Denmark and the Netherlands would lead the process of training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft. The allies also announced $65 billion of military assistance...