Life without pain: private clinic provides free surgeries to patients from vulnerable groups
In the spring, the clinic launched a pilot project called "To Be Healthy!", where doctors give people a chance for a normal life without pain
Society and Culture - Publications
10 July 2023
30 June 2023
"Big Water" of Kakhovka Reservoir
The explosion of the hydroelectric power plant returned rivers to their historical channels, exposed flooded islands and threatened archaeological sites
29 June 2023
“Hopeless Times”: How Empire Prevented Us from Being Ukrainians
One of the obsessive topics of Kremlin propaganda is the “oppression” of Russians and the Russian language in Ukraine. As in other cases, ruscism simply reflects one’s own “sins.”
28 June 2023
Life Story: Happiness of Two Captives and Little Anna-Mariia
How the family of a military medic and a marine from Mariupol united after captivity and returned their 6-year-old daughter from the occupied territory
23 June 2023
Russian narratives targeting Global South: main trends
In June, a roundtable “Ukraine and the Global South: Finding Ways of Cooperation” was held in the hall of Ukrinform, organized by the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security together with the “Ukraine through the Eyes of Muslims” portal.
20 June 2023
Remember everything: destruction of Ukraine's environment by Russians began in 2014
After the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, it became obvious that the occupiers do not take into account the damage they cause to the environment of Ukraine.
17 June 2023
Ukrainian journalists draw list of Putinism agents in 19 European countries
Analysts with Texty.org.ua set an ambitious task — to compile a list of all agents of influence of the Putin regime, which reveal themselves in one or another activity in 19 European countries. On May 15, the authors updated the database for the third time, which now has more than 2,100 people.
15 June 2023
Blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP: Chronicled forests and hundreds of thousands of rare species are dying
Nearly 50 objects of the nature reserve fund will suffer from the flood in Kherson Oblast.
12 June 2023
Russians blow up Kakhovka hydroelectric power station: consequences for temporarily occupied Crimea
After de-occupation, the problem of water supply to the peninsula will have to be solved very quickly
08 June 2023
Tucker Carlson’s first video blog after being fired from Fox News: common lie about Ukraine
On 7 June, the first episode of a video blog by Tucker Carlson, a TV presenter who was fired from the US TV channel Fox News in April, was posted on Twitter. One of the key topics of the vlog was the explosion at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Kherson region and speculation about Ukraine’s complicity.
Stolen history. Twelve archaeological treasures that Russia looted from Ukraine
Back to the Future. Twelve archaeological treasures Russia stole Ukraine
07 June 2023
“Hanged UOC priest” and “burned churches”: Russia creating “circle of lies” about Ukraine in Italy
It is no secret that Telegram has long captured the leadership among messengers in Ukraine, used as a source for breaking news. But this is not exclusively a Ukrainian or Russian trend — the share of users of this network abroad has also been on the rise.
06 June 2023
How surgeon at war begins to believe in miracles
Orthopedic traumatologist volunteers and performs unique surgeries to stitch together nerves damaged by war injuries
23 May 2023
What Is ruscism? (Ruscism - brand new Russian totalitarianism)
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a resolution in which it defined the political regime in Russia as ruscist.
16 May 2023
Memorial evening of Arman Soldin: He lost his life so that millions could know what happening in Ukraine
Arman believed that he could change the world for the better by telling the stories of war and the stories of the people affected.
13 May 2023
The Eurovision Song Contest represents one of the best examples of how music can unite us all
Joint statement on Eurovision Song Contest 2023 by Lucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, and Oleksandr Tkachenko, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine
12 May 2023
Maps of Ukraine without Crimea: origin
Starting 2014, Russia has been openly encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It all started with the illegal annexation of Crimea.
09 May 2023
May 9 in Kremlin’s propaganda: messages spread and what is wrong with them
In Russian propaganda, “May 9,” that is, Victory Day over Nazi Germany, takes a prominent place: propagandists sacralize it and elevate the role of the USSR; any dissenters are branded “Russophobes” and “fascists.”
08 May 2023
Victory Day. A common holiday that divides
May 8 and 9 are probably the most controversial dates in the Ukrainian holiday calendar.
01 May 2023
Why May 1 not a "Soviet" holiday, but quite relevant in our time
Programmers, dentists, and even contract soldiers are all hired personnel and need to have their rights protected, just like the medieval "wool scalpers."
28 April 2023
Russian propaganda in Balkan region: Pro-Kremlin narratives in local online media
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the publications of local online media in Countries of Balkan Region – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Slovenia based on the monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in January-February 2023 to find out the level of influence of Russian propaganda in the studied countries.
Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, 5G…Seven major technological trends of 2023 in broadcasting
According to the results of the 100th NAB Show conference in Las Vegas.
26 April 2023
Advertising captivity and smear ads against Ukrainian counteroffensive
Since early March, Ukrainian netizens saw a variety of ads trying to influence their psycho-emotional state amid the ongoing war.
17 April 2023
World news agencies and Russian narratives. What words should not be used in covering war
Even a year into Russia’s barbaric aggression, some leading media platforms in the West sometimes use certain vocabulary which distorts reality, misleads their multimillion audience, and legalizes Russian propaganda in the global information space.
14 April 2023
Russian narratives in India, Indonesia's online media
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the publications of online media in India and Indonesia based on the monitoring conducted by the Ukrainian social startup LetsData in February 2023 to find out the level of influence of Russian propaganda in the studied countries.
06 April 2023
AI and disinformation: Opportunities and risks amid war
The attention of mankind today is focused on artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI providing free access to the ChatGPT chatbot and publication on social networks of doctored images created with the help of Midjorney and other neural networks made this tool closer than ever to ordinary netizens.
03 April 2023
Why are we fighting for Bakhmut? How Russian propaganda is trying to demoralize Ukrainians
Information attacks are an integral part of modern warfare. The enemy systemically attempts to hamper motivation of both the military and civilian population.
29 March 2023
“Evil Nazis against woman and child”: Russian propagandists renounce their own fake targeting Ukraine Army
Russian propaganda pundits have been spinning a staged video showing what they said was a “conflict between the Ukrainian military and a woman accompanying a child.”
20 March 2023
Russian meddling in media space, efforts to undermine Europe’s cybersecurity
Bots, coordinated inauthentic behavior originating from Russia, espionage attempts by Russian hackers targeting Ukraine’s allies, cyberattacks, and mass creation of resources with the sole aim of spreading disinformation— Russia resorts to any means to penetrate Europe’s information space.
Falsified voices: Putin’s pseudo-referenda in Ukraine
Throughout its existence, Russia has repeatedly committed acts of aggression against neighboring states and systematically supported separatism in the former Soviet republics. Pseudo-referenda have become one of the tools for weakening central governments.