Fracture Exhibition Files
Shrapnel-torn mural of John Lennon in Izyum
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Articles by Майдан Інформ
Cooperating with Ukrainian authorities, we produce photos and videos to serve as evidence in criminal proceedings.
News
Helping Ukraine: intellectual contribution you could make to the Ukrainian cause
Western authors can incentivize Ukrainian publishers to publish books they authored, in Ukrainian, by both decreasing publishing costs due to a royalty-free license, and guaranteeing no competition from Russian versions. As a result, books will be published in Ukrainian that otherwise would never be published. […]
English Articles
Christmas thoughts 2022
To those fighting for the Freedom of Ukraine,
To those working day and night to provide power and heating,
To those driving supplies to every corner of Ukraine,
To those working day and night to support Ukraine,
Stay safe. […]
War
These are the rules of any discussion about the Russian war against Ukraine.
To have any productive dialogue in a group that includes Ukrainians, the other participants need to figuratively sign the pledge that they unequivocally condemn Russia in its war against Ukraine and label it as evil. […]
War
A soldier Tseng remembered, 14 November 2022
When the war in Ukraine started, the country called for help and many foreign volunteers came to Ukraine to train, to help, but also to fight along their Ukrainian brothers in arms. And sometimes, they also lose their lives. One of them, a young Taiwanese volunteer, Jonathan “Tseng” Sheng-Guang-Tseng, born 1997, received the last honours today in Lviv.
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War
From Zaporizhzhia to Lviv. Task Force Yankee helps refugees.
Besides the medical training Task Force Yankee provides to the Ukrainian Security Forces, we recently were able to help refugees. […]
War
Training and saving lives – support by Task Force Yankee Ukraine
The focus of operations, conducted by Task Force Yankee Ukraine are TC3, the so-called Tactical Combat Casualty Care. Until today, over 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been trained to conduct firsthand medical care on themselves and others. […]
War
Petr Pojman: Latent consequences of the war will be eliminated for years
Czech criminologist Petr Pojman shares plans for the next project of Maidan Monitoring Information Center – it should be systematization and mapping of the latent cultural and ecological consequences of the war in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region (perhaps also in Donetsk and Luhansk regions). Such information is necessary for the restoration of the liberated territories of Ukraine, and two more important components for this are funds and expertise of people or organizations that have experience in solving similar problems. […]
War
Petr Pojman explains: Why is there no heating and no internet in Izium?
The newly liberated territories of Ukraine are suffering from the energy problems, due to the actions of Russian army – generally, the electrical infrastructure, petrol stations are destroyed. The biggest problem for the next cold […]
War
“For us in Europe, it’s something absolutely crazy” – exploring the rocket-proof bus station in Kharkiv
Nataliya Zubar and Czech criminologist Petr Pojman are exploring the first rocket-proof bus station in Kharkiv, which can be a shelter in case of shelling or missile attack. Inside, there are cameras, panic button and no windows. The place looks safe but absolutely crazy for an ordinary European. […]
War
NOTICE in criminal proceedings related to the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine
The notice contains a brief systematic description of the pretrial investigation in criminal proceedings carried out in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, the definitions of the main terms, rights and obligations of the parties, as well as the assignment of functions between the investigator and the prosecutor. […]
Fracture Exhibition Files
A photo exhibition about destroyed Kharkiv opened in Berezhany
The documentary exhibition “The Kharkiv Fracture” opened in the Berezhany Museum of Local History. The authors of the photo talk about various aspects of the destruction in Kharkiv, which has been suffering from Russian artillery shelling and rocket attacks every day since February 24, 2022. […]
Security
Destruction of Schools in Kharkiv Region by Russian Air Strikes
In order to plan for resuming education in Kharkiv’s schools, the damage needs to be categorized to create a basis for decision making in regards to strategies for restoring these institutions and the possibility of conducting the educational process inside them, when the situation becomes safe and stable. […]
Editorial
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. […]
English Opinions
Great Russian Chauvinism – an inconvenient example
A persistent nuclear Russian menace is not the world we want. It is equal to if not more dangerous than global warming. The lesson to be learned is that most Russians in terms of chauvinism and imperialism rise to the level at least of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, however much he is admired in the West. Thus, the demise of Vladimir Putin would be only a temporary reprieve. […]