Is there a standard occupation technology that russia implements in different territories of Ukraine? How to distinguish survival from collaborationism? And how can the state preserve the trust of TOTs residents and prevent a gap between those who stayed in the occupation and those who avoided it?

Having destroyed the native homes of millions of Ukrainians, russia has severely restricted Ukrainians from leaving the territories controlled by Ukraine. Instead, the aggressor country often leaves only one cynical option — to go to russia, to the territory where the war, killings and destruction came from. However, for many Ukrainian families, despite they had to pass the "filtration camps", this possibility, although morally difficult, became the only alternative to leaving the war zone. A...

Back in 2014, russia launched an operation to conceal their crimes on the territory of Ukraine. Since February, 2022, its attempts to transfer responsibility for the destroyed peaceful cities to Ukraine have become enormous, and the key tool in this regard is the Investigative Committee (IC) of the russian federation. The agency under the leadership of putin's classmate, Aleksandr Bastrykin, became a factory for the creation of an alternative reality, back in the time of russia's aggression a...

Хто вийде переможцем у нерівній боротьбі за жителів захоплених Росією громад? Чи розрізняє українська держава окуповані території та громадян першої й другої хвиль окупації? І чи взагалі варто їх розрізняти? Усі ці питання — не тільки в компетенції наших героїчних ЗСУ, а й у вмотивованості посадовців, які мають вчасно і гнучко реагувати на проблеми жителів ТОТ і внутрішньо переміщених осіб (ВПО). А також держави, зобов’язаної виробити чітку стратегію взаємовідносин із людьми, що залишилися в ...

During the second stage of the russian aggression, 33 journalists were killed, 15 media people went missing.

The ongoing missile strikes of Putin's troops and the combat updates push to the back burner the sad fact that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are undergoing the humiliating and extremely dangerous procedure of “filtration.” Russia's “special operation” started from the words of the kremlin's chief about “Ukrainian people taken hostage by a gang of drug-addicts and Nazis.” However, quite predictably, it turned into the persecutions of Ukrainian citizens who got caught in the territories c...

At the beginning of full-scale hostilities against Ukraine, the kremlin junta repeated the mantra that they had no intention of establishing an occupation regime in the occupied territories. Behind the veil of outspoken bluffing, the words were hiding a totally pragmatic consideration. Even the limited occupation of someone else’s territory is unjustifiably costly. Furthermore, in terms of logistics management, it is an overly complicated idea.

The recent arrival of the former head of government of the rf, Kirienko, in Kherson oblast marked the beginning of the stage of “forced integration” of the Ukrainian territories seized by russia. The final date for the fictitious referendum was not publicly announced by this candidate for the putin’s bloody throne. However, after his departure, the all local collaborators spoke fervently in one voice about the emergency preparation of the subdued regions for future pseudo plebiscites.

putin's decree on a simplified procedure for obtaining russian passports by residents of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions and yet another facilitated procedure for issuing the "eagles" in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions demonstrate the completion of the first chaotic period of occupation of new territories of Ukraine.

Поточну стратегію Кремля щодо тимчасового управління новоокупованими територіями можна описати трьома словами — пропаганда, репресії і дерибан. Схоже, в Кремлі не бачать швидких перспектив легалізувати факт окупації українських земель. Незрозуміло, що робити з усіма самопризначеними так званими військово-цивільними адміністраціями. У госдумі вже готують правову основу для їх заміни у вигляді «тимчасових адміністрацій», які сформує особисто Путін. Планується, що ці «тимчасові органи виконавчої...

As a result of the full-scale aggression, russia seized a number of territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv Oblasts, and new communities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The aggressor state has already undertaken to establish an illegitimate system of governa

Can you feel certain that the winning candidate for deputy, whom you supported in the elections, will gain a deputy seat in local council? The correct answer is “of course you can’t”. We will tell the story how the political party was deprived of more than 100 votes in the process of allocation of deputy seats so as to prevent it from clearing the electoral threshold.