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In the memory of the wonderful raid of Czechs on Kharkiv.
Markéta Gregorová, a Czech, originally from the city of Most, became the first European deputy to visit the city of Kharkiv since February 2022. […]
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Russian general who had been occupying the Kharkiv region is indicted for war of aggression
May 20, 2023, Prosecutor General of Ukraine filed a criminal indictment for war of aggression against Lieutenant General Andrii Ruzynskyi, Commander of the 11th Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.
Members of Maidan Monitoring Information Center team participated as involved specialists in the investigative and procedural actions of gathering evidence and in further analytical work on the processing of materials that formed the basis of this criminal case, which is being investigated by investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region. […]
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Glen Grant. 2023 – a time and chance for military change in Ukraine
This paper is a selection of changes to defence policy and law to make the armed forces more effective at both fighting and administration. All reflect recent comments from front line officers and soldiers, volunteers, business people, and administrators.
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What does it mean to live in Piatykhatky during the war
Piatykhatky is a neighborhood of Kharkiv, Ukraine, formerly a small village. After construction of new premises of the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institutethere in the 1950s Piatyhatky became incorporated into the Kharkiv city. The border with Russia is 25 kilometers north of this district. […]
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Russian commanders are deviants, says a Czech criminologist who witnessed the bodies exhumation in Izyum
Petr Pojman was one of the first who had the opportunity to talk to witnesses and document the war crimes of the Russian army after the liberation of Ukrainian Izyum. […]
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From Color to Monochrome and Back Again: A Girl’s Tale of Her Childhood Infatuation
I grew up in a grey rectangular city built by dreamers playing with gigantic concrete blocks. The dreamers imagined a purposeful communal living where workers together would build a glorious future without some negligible material things distracting them on the way. The future-builders would look out of the enormous three-panel windows of their apartments, see and greet each other. They would spend minimal allotted time in their tiny toilets and kitchens conjoined with bathtubs. These were all great dreams of innovators later called “Constructivists”, but these dreams did not belong to the little girl who loved fairy tales. […]
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Donbas 2015 Mission – Monitoring of a number of cities in Eastern Ukraine
Mission objective was to identify main problems and mechanisms of functioning of authorities (both the central and lower level ones), civic groups, independent media, state controlling services, controlling services of the local authorities. […]
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Ukrainian Peacebuilding School. Major Problems Detected and Solutions Proposed
Strategies of transformation and prevention of borderline conflicts in Ukraine developed by joint task forces of local activists and local authorities
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Ukrainian Cat Army. Why the Ukrainian Military Will Put Up Monuments to Cats
A cat is fighting – this is not a metaphor. The cats are working as psychologists (or a “walking happiness” as per words of one of the battalion commanders). The cats are hunting mice and rats that are found in hundreds at the military steppes posts. […]
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Kharkiv civic groups call for a nationwide movement to support NATO membership for Ukraine
We offer to hold the first ” Maidan for NATO ” civic movement Forum in Kharkiv on September 20, 2014. We are also ready to organize the event. […]