Russia: Ukrainian Blogger's Photos From the Moscow Rally
Kyiv-based blogger Oleksandr Arhat (LJ user olarhat) posts a photo report [uk] from the Dec. 10 post-election rally in Moscow, which reminded him of the 2004 post-election protests in Kyiv: “Unbought...
View ArticleUkraine: Blaming Instead of Renegotiating
LEvko of Foreign Notes argues that Ukraine's government has conveniently chosen to pass the blame on former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko for the high gas prices the country has to pay, instead of...
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Ukraine: The Story of Anna Boiko's Life
I would like to tell you about my grandmother – Boiko Anna. She was born and lives in the village of Yaglush in Rogatyn district of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. She is a cheerful, talented, strong person. A...
View ArticleUkraine: Authorities Shut Down File-Sharing Site Ex.ua
On Jan. 31, the Ukrainian authorities shut down Ex.ua, a popular file-sharing site. A selection of relevant tweets [en, uk, ru] is here: e.g., @sinplotnika [ru]: “The state has deprived you of bread,...
View ArticleUkraine: Government Sites Under Attack; “Freedom to Ex.ua”
The official websites of the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Internal Affairs Ministry, and the Party of Regions are either completely down or work with interruptions today. Some of...
View ArticleUkraine: Ex.ua is Back Online
Ex.ua, a file-sharing site that the authorities shut down two days ago, is now back online [uk], though its content is still inaccessible. @bl4ka tweets [ru]: “The DDoS revolution has won! […]”...
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Ukraine: Netizens React to Popular File-Sharing Website's Shutdown
On January 31, 2012, Ukrainian Internet users learned that the country’s biggest file-sharing site, Ex.ua [ru], was shut down due to repeated copyright violations. According to the Ukrainian Ministry...
View ArticleUkraine: Oksana Makar's Gang Rape Case
Foreign Notes, EUobserver.com, and Ukrainiana write about Oksana Makar's horrible gang rape case. Media mentions, updates and fundraising info [ru, uk] is here (support site), here (Vkontakte page),...
View ArticleUkraine: Lukyanivska Prison - “Where People Are Kept Like Animals”
On April 2, 2012, the Ukrainian TV channel TVi aired Kostiantyn Usov's documentary [uk, ru] about living conditions and treatment of inmates at Kyiv's Lukyanivska prison (known in Ukrainian as...
View ArticleUkraine: Netizens Discuss Dnipropetrovsk Bombings
On Friday April 27, 2012, at least 27 people were injured in the four midday explosions in public spaces in the center of Dnipropetrovsk. The blasts were qualified as terror attacks by the Ukrainian...
View ArticleUkraine: “If Prison Acquires a Voice, Everything Will Change”
On April 2, the Ukrainian TV channel TVi aired Kostiantyn Usov's documentary [uk, ru] about Kyiv's Lukyanivska prison, highlighting the shocking treatment and living conditions of the inmates and...
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Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko's Plight and Euro 2012
There must be some corners on the web (e.g., here and here) where football fans are still having apolitical discussions of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, scheduled to take place in...
View ArticleUkraine: Homophobic Legal Initiatives in Sync with Public Attitudes
Kyiv's first Gay Pride Parade ever, permitted by the authorities, was supposed to take place on Sunday, May 20. Fearing attacks, the event's organizers had kept the venue as secret as possible, but...
View ArticleUkraine: A Roma Camp Burned Down in Kyiv
On its Facebook page, the Human Rights Information Center posted a photo report [uk] on the demolition of a Roma camp in Kyiv, which was home to some 70 people, most of them children, until May 31,...
View ArticleUkraine: Marko Dević's “Ghost Goal”
On Facebook, in the past two hours, over 4,800 users have 'shared' and over 2,900 have ‘liked' the screenshot of the “ghost goal” by Ukraine's Marko Dević in today's Euro 2012 game against England. The...
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Ukraine: Now That Euro 2012 is Over
When Ukraine was awarded Euro 2012 together with Poland, many saw this as a chance to promote Ukraine’s image as a European country. This, however, has not been easy. The preparations for the...
View ArticleUkraine: Ukrainian Wikipedia's Traffic Hiked as Russian Wikipedia Striked
Watcher.com.ua reports [uk] that on July 10, when Wikipedia's Russian-language section suspended its service [en] for one day to protest the Russian draft law “On the Protection of Children From...
View ArticleUkraine: Politicians and Parties on Facebook
Watcher.com.ua reports [uk] that the ruling Party of Regions now has a Facebook page [ru]. For more on Ukrainian politicians' and parties' Facebook presence, see this Watcher.com.ua's ranking (uk;...
View ArticleUkraine: “Opposition Talk” Vs. Reality
Taras of Ukrainiana posts a video of the roundtable discussion by the Ukrainian “united opposition” (which took place on July 17 and lasted 3 hours and 37 minutes) - as well as videos featuring...
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Kenya: Javelin Throwing Olympian Trains Using YouTube
This is part of our special coverage London 2012 Olympics. Julius Yego, the African and Kenyan national javelin champion, broke the national record over the weekend in a field athletics meet in...
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