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Anne Applebaum: Democracies don’t try to make everyone agree

Marxist literary scholars and popularizers of critical race theory have one thing in common with certain GOP commentators: a tendency to see their own …
Anne Applebaum

UkrInform: Parliament plans to increase size of army

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed bill No. 5558 “On Amendments to Article 1 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” to …
UkrInform

Anders Corr: Kyiv must stand against China

Ukraine is in dire straits, not least because Russia invaded the new democracy in 2014 and is still there, violating its borders on a daily basis, and …
Anders Corr

EUvsDisinfo: Disinformation fuels hate on Belarusian TV

“Rats”, “degenerates”, “human abominations” – these are just a few ways in which Belarusian state-controlled TV describes opposition activists. As the …
EUvsDisinfo

Reuters: Russian court orders arrest in absentia of Navalny ally Zhdanov

MOSCOW – A Russian court on June 29 ordered the arrest in absentia of Ivan Zhdanov, an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Read more here.
Reuters

Associated Press: Dutch navy says Russian jets flew low over frigate in Black Sea

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Russian fighter jets repeatedly flew low over a Dutch navy frigate in the Black Sea last week and carried out “mock attacks,” …
Associated Press

Timothy Snyder: The war on history is a war on democracy

In March 1932, the cover of Fortune magazine featured a painting of Red Square by Diego Rivera. A numberless crowd of faceless men marched with red …
Timothy Snyder

RFE/RL: Russian police launch probe into attack on RFE/RL contributor

BLAGOVESHCHENSK, Russia — The Investigative Committee in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk has launched a probe into a physical attack on a …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Court cancels hearing on PrivatBank-Surkis case due to illness of judge

The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court did not hold the first hearing on the appeal of the court decision made in 2017 regarding the obligation of …
Interfax-Ukraine

Defence Blog: Ukraine to supply Turkey with engines for heavy combat helicopter

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian company Motor Sich for the acquisition of engines that will power a …
Defence Blog

Zelensky signs law on intelligent sensors to save roads from overloaded trucks

In 2018, road inspectors in Odesa Oblast were left speechless when they stopped and weighed a truck. It was carrying 202 tons of cargo–five times more …
Natalia Datskevych

Parliament gives foreign experts decisive role in judicial reform

The Verkhovna Rada on June 29 approved the second reading of a bill giving foreign experts a decisive role in part of Ukraine’s judicial …
Oleg Sukhov

Reuters: Ukraine backs bill to jail officials for false asset declarations

Ukraine’s parliament on June 29 approved in a final reading a law to impose jail sentences on officials who make false asset declarations, a …
Reuters

Land purchase tax to be 6.5%

After the moratorium on the alienation of farmland is lifted on July 1, the parties to the transaction for the purchase of a land plot will need to …
Interfax-Ukraine

Individual entrepreneurs hold symbolic funeral for small business

Around 1,000 individual entrepreneurs gathered in Kyiv’s Independence Square on June 29 to hold a symbolic “funeral for small business”. Protesters …
Volodymyr Petrov

RFE/RL: Ukraine seeks to upgrade trident emblem

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes a proposed expansion of Ukraine’s famous blue-and-yellow national emblem – the trident – can be passed by …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UkrInform: Ukrainian positions in Donetsk region come under mortar fire

Today, Russian-occupation forces have launched two attacks on Joint Forces’ positions in eastern Ukraine from 120mm mortars. Read more here.
UkrInform

Ukraine, EU may sign agreement in field of customs in 2021

Ukraine and the EU may achieve the signing of an agreement in the field of customs in 2021, Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade Representative of …
Interfax-Ukraine
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