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March 17, 2014
Thoughts from Kyiv on imminent invasion – 17 March 2014
Crimeans “voted”. Given the barrage of media coverage of this event, I hardly feel it’s worthwhile to comment on it further: the “referendum” was illegal and will not be recognized by any country other than Russia; the result is a foregone conclusion. A more interesting question is “what’s next?”
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March 16, 2014
Holding Up Half the Sky: How Zambia’s Women went from Housewives to Breadwinners
Women’s status has been greatly enhanced by their growing share of employment, but gender relations are still far from equal.
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March 12, 2014
Dispatches: In Turmoil, But Ukraine Still Considered “Safe”
It would appear obvious to anyone paying the least bit of attention to the turmoil in Ukraine that it’s not the safest place to be right now. But in the eyes of the United Kingdom, France and Norway, Ukraine is considered a “safe country of origin.” That means that if a Ukrainian asylum seeker lands at Heathrow tonight, he would be forced to overcome a presumption that his asylum claim is frivolous.
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March 4, 2014
Russia’s wartime misinformation strategies
While much of Russian media is state-controlled, the Internet has mainly far remained largely free from censorship and has provided an active forum for anti-government criticism. On Monday Moscow blocked access to 13 websites linked to Ukrainian protest movement. The general prosecutor’s office of Russia claims the sites “propagandized the activity of Ukrainian nationalist groups,” and accused them of encouraging “terrorist activity” and “participation in unsanctioned mass actions.”
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#CongoWomenSpeak report: Faces of genocide
These are some of the faces of the 800,000 people killed in just 100 days in 1994 in Rwanda. The photos are hanging in Kigali’s genocide museum—a terrifying place that actually contains the remains of some 249,000 people murdered.
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February 27, 2014
The EP is going to remind Russia that it is a guarantor of Ukraine
Yes, the EP intends to remind you that the existing borders of Ukraine were guaranteed the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom in the Budapest memorandum on security guarantees.
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February 20, 2014
EuroMaidan: From Protest to Civil War
The situation in EuroMaidan in Kyiv, Ukraine is getting worse. The people are dying in the streets while here in the west mainly what we are doing is talking and observing, when of course we can do so much more. Arms embargos, questioning Russia why Russian troops are disguised as Berkut, refusing to acknowledge Yanukovych […]
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February 14, 2014
Media Overblowing Extreme Right’s Role in Ukraine’s #Euromaidan Protests
A group of domestic and international scholars of Ukrainian nationalism have warned that an increasing number of media reports are misrepresenting the role of Ukraine's far right within the anti-government protest movement Euromaidan.
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February 4, 2014
#EuroMaidan: Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine
We would like to announce the release of the new book #EuroMaidan: Rising for Freedom and Democracy in Ukraine. It is a photocentric book with a collection of over 200 photographs from various photographers on the ground in Ukraine.
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January 27, 2014
Ukraine. Price of democracy
The price, Ukrainian people are forced to pay in order to recover the right to live in a democratic country in 2014. For extended explanation of what is really happening in Ukraine see: http://www.slideshare.net/NazarBartos… Source: www.digitalmaidan.com Related PostsStand up for UkraineUkraine: Repeal Repressive New LegislationNew Year. New Updates. New Projects.Released: My Whispers of Horror: Letters telling […]
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