Telegram and TikTok: what is wrong with these platforms and why do we need to be careful when using them?

Why did official Tbilisi resort to adopting the scandalous foreign agents law before the parliamentary elections, and will the civil society representatives obey it? How does society react to steps that actually destroy Georgia's European perspective? And is the current government of Georgia afraid of sanctions from Western countries? Watch more in this issue of “Power of Choice”

29 listopada b.r. na zaproszenie Ambasady Brytyjskiej i Fundacji im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego miałam zaszczyt zaprezentować działalność naszego Centrum Pomocy w Dokumentowaniu Zbrodni Wojennych podczas konferencji "Sprawiedliwość dla Ukrainy", która odbyła się w Muzeum Historii Polski na terenie Cytadeli Warszawskiej. Nasze Centrum zostało otwarte w stolicy Polski we wrześniu ubiegłego roku z inicjatywy Sieci Obywatelskiej OPORA. 

The Kremlin is ready to play the “hunger games” in order to weaken Ukraine and its wartime allies. Russia’s participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative was accompanied by blackmail and threats to withdraw from the “grain agreement”, permanent sabotage of work of the Joint Coordination Center and implementation of systematic escalation policy. All of the aforesaid by no means contributed to global food security and stability.

Mobile apps can spy on you unnoticed. Today, TikTok does it. Tomorrow, any other service could follow, also the governmental one. Users should be aware of the risks they take when using apps on their smartphones.

While the Ukrainian Facebook argues about the outfits of Zelensky and his team during the visit to the United States, the hashtag #ZelenskyWarCriminal was picked up by the trends of the US Twitter. This hashtag is not new, and every day, at least 1 or 2 tweets come up on the feed. Such dynamics is normal in a global context because marginal conspiracy theorists stay on the radar. However, it was after Zelensky's speech in Washington that the hashtag became super popular.

The 15th annual meeting on the implementation of the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation (DoP) is taking place in the European Parliament in Brussels on December, 6-8. The event engages organizations acting in the field of international election observation. In particular, Olha Aivazovska, Chair of the Board of Civil Network OPORA, who also heads the Board of the Global Network of National Election Observers (GNDEM), is the speaker at the event. Below, we publish ...

June, 2022 may become a critical time in the context of Ukraine's European integration aspirations. The application for EU membership that Ukraine submitted at the beginning of the full-scale war will be discussed at the summit on June, 23–24.

Lawyers say that should the Verkhovna Rada ratify the Rome Statute, it shall extend the jurisdiction of the ICC to investigate crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine. To date, 42 ICC member countries, including Ukraine, appealed to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan and his office launched proceedings relating to Russia’s war in Ukraine. However, not all legal procedures are accessible for Ukraine to bring the case to fruition because Ukraine has not ratified the Rome Statute.