On March 24, 2023, the executive director of the TikTok platform testified before the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce about the social network's safety for American society and national security. Now, the US Congress must decide whether to ban the Chinese social network used by about 150 million Americans. Svidomi and OPORA figure out whether TikTok is safe, whether its owner company, ByteDance, really works for the Beijing government, and whether it could use the data of American u...

Parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine have been under occupation for more than a year now. Russia is trying to integrate these territories into their own economic space in order to weaken their connections with Ukraine. In particular, the hryvnia came under the strike, as Russia seeks to replace it with the ruble. The occupiers introduced new rules for receiving social benefits and pensions: they can only be available to people who had become citizens of Russia. Recently, Ukrai...

Last week (April 17–23), a regular Ramstein meeting took place. Allies announced that over the year they provided Ukraine with military assistance worth $55 billion. NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, visited Kyiv. He said that Ukraine's rightful place is in the Alliance. At the same time, our country leaders expect that “a political invitation to NATO will come” in July at the summit in Vilnius. The G7 countries imposed additional sanctions against Russia. At the same time, the Kremli...

Last week (April 10–16), the US and Ukraine reacted to the leaked US intelligence secret documents. Among other things, they said that Washington doubted the success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. On the other hand, Russia passed a law on electronic draft notice, and continues to share misinformation claiming that the Ukrainian army is shelling civilians with Western weapons, as well as about the “American biolaboratories” in Ukraine. At the same time, Russia is actively using Hungary who...

On March, 31, 2023, Vladimir Putin approved an updated concept for Russia’s foreign policy. He declared that it resulted in a "weighted document to be a basis for our mid-term and long-term practical steps."

Civil Network OPORA is launching a series of videos “The Power of Choice. Important Talks About Ukraine.” It is a series of visionary interviews with Ukrainian intellectuals for those who would like to better comprehend the world and the uniqueness of Ukrainians in it.

Last week (April 3–9), at the UN Security Council, Russia tried to distort documented cases of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian territory. At the same time, Ukraine participated in the first official meeting since 2017 of the NATO-Ukraine Commission and strengthened military cooperation with Poland. French President, Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, visited China in an attempt to persuade Xi to persuade Russia to end the war. Howeve...

After  the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion, Meta hid information about Ukrainian advertisers in the Facebook Political Ads Library. Although the rules for posting ads have not changed, Ukrainians get to see increasingly more Russian propaganda and posts with fraudulent content in their feeds.