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.

Last week (March 27 – April 2) a journalist of the US The Wall Street Journal was detained in Russia. This happened following his article claiming that the Russian economy was beginning to collapse. During the Summit for Democracy, which brought together leaders of 120 countries, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia has been at war with the democratic world in various ways for a long time, and this year they must eventually lose.Russia updated its foreign policy concept and labelled the Uni...

Last week (March 20-22), Chinese leader Xi Jinping had a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The Russian President said that his country was ready to take the Chinese peace plan as a basis to resolve the situation in Ukraine. Russia is looking for allies in Africa and disseminates false information that within the framework of the “grain deal” Ukraine allegedly exports grain to the developed countries, and the share of the African continent is only 3%. In addition, Russia promises free ...

Millions of Ukrainian men and women had lived overseas before 2022 but because of the full-scale war, their numbers have largely grown. Not all of them will manage to return to participate in elections. As of now, Ukraine does not have enough polling stations out of country to enable access to the vote to all.

Ukrainian Facebook lists several dozen pages that profit from the deaths of Ukrainian defenders, publish false information and various prophecies. This way, they reach out to insanely large multimillion number of users. OPORA found this to be a coordinated network. And the profiteers are most likely Russians. In this article, we will explore how a complex network of information resources is organized, which ultimately sends tens of thousands of people to the clutches of Russian financial frau...