Articles by Alya Shandra

Alya Shandra: Berlin’s strange priorities

Alya Shandra: Why these expats chose Ukraine

Alya Shandra: Finland denies export licence for engines due to Crimea sanctions

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Alya Shandra: Open Skies for Ukraine and EU

Alya Shandra: ‘King of the titushkas’ sentenced to 8 years in prison

Alya Shandra: Ukraine to hold military parade on Independence Day

Alya Shandra: Putin’s hostages

Alya Shandra: How Ukraine can still defeat Nord Stream 2

Alya Shandra: Separatists send targets for Russia’s artillery attacks on Ukrainian bases

Alya Shandra: Zelensky admits operation to detain Wagner group existed

Alya Shandra: Russia’s ‘UN peacekeeping brigade’ helped occupy Crimea, Donbas

Alya Shandra: Belarusians explain why it’s difficult to beat dictatorship

Alya Shandra: The efficacy of EU sanctions in Crimea under question

Alya Shandra: Siemens and Grundfos equipment spotted in Crimea despite sanctions

Alya Shandra: Ukrainian ex-Kremlin hostages launch platform to free political prisoners

Alya Shandra: Russia comes for Crimean Tatars once again

Alya Shandra: Why you should send a letter to a political prisoner of the Kremlin

Alya Shandra: Former Berkut police now dispersing protests in Belarus

Alya Shandra: Volunteers procure oxygen to Ukrainian hospitals

Alya Shandra: How Ukraine can defeat Russia

Alya Shandra: Do the Belarusian protesters have a chance?

Alya Shandra: Ukraine ponders ways to stop Constitutional Court

Alya Shandra: How the UK will help Ukraine regain its naval footing

Alya Shandra: Belarus protests show no sign of decline

Alya Shandra: How Lukashenko stole Belarus election

Alya Shandra: The toxic myth of ‘understanding and engaging’ Russia

Alya Shandra: Pro-Russian MEP joins European Endowment for Democracy

Alya Shandra: Ukraine registers record number of new daily COVID-19 cases

Alya Shandra: Russian medics demand combat bonuses for war in Donbas

Alya Shandra: In Ukraine, Moscow Patriarchate ignores quarantine

Alya Shandra: Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine calls believers to church

Alya Shandra: Case of EuroMaidan massacre may never be solved

Alya Shandra: The illusion of progress

Alya Shandra: Dignity after the Revolution of Dignity

Alya Shandra: What Surkov’s hacked emails tell about hybrid war against Ukraine

Alya Shandra: Minsk-2 is the real problem for Ukraine

Alya Shandra: Leaked emails show Minsk protocol designed as path to Ukraine’s capitulation

Alya Shandra: ‘Steinmeier’s formula’ seen as state capitulation

Alya Shandra: An unequal exchange

Alya Shandra: Zelensky’s consolidation of power

Alya Shandra: Ukraine finally gets a new Election Code

Alya Shandra: Honeymoon over for Orthodox Church of Ukraine

Alya Shandra: Please reject efforts to weaken the Council of Europe

Alya Shandra: How Russia tricked the Council of Europe into self-amputation

Alya Shandra: Why a referendum on peace deal with Russia is a problem

Alya Shandra: New details of Russian occupation of Crimea

Alya Shandra: Why Poroshenko lost

Alya Shandra: What does the law on Ukrainian language say?

Alya Shandra: Who votes for Zelenskiy, Poroshenko and why

Alya Shandra: Hacked Russia documents outline plan similar to Zelenskiy campaign

Alya Shandra: Crimeans ‘withdraw’ their referendum vote

Alya Shandra: Swastika operation reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes

Alya Shandra: How recent PACE resolution will help free Ukrainian sailors

Alya Shandra: Russia may kill disabled Crimean Tatar with show trial

Alya Shandra: New chances, new risks. Where Ukrainian Orthodoxy stands on the eve of …

Alya Shandra: Sailors captured by Russia are POWs, Russia violates Geneva Convention

Alya Shandra: Who has a right to do what in the Azov Sea

Alya Shandra: How PACE wants to change its rules to lift sanctions on Russia

Alya Shandra: The rise and fall of Nadiya Savchenko

Alya Shandra: Women’s Day in Ukraine is seriously in limbo

Alya Shandra: Polish pro-Russian far-right radicals behind arson attempt of Hungarian …

Alya Shandra: De-facto acquittal for EuroMaidan murder highlights everything that’s wrong …

Alya Shandra: Experts weigh in on Ukraine’s hotly debated new minority language policy