One year of war
Feb. 24, 2023
It’s hard to carry on with your life when your friends’ coffins are so heavy and you know from your own harsh experience that the best really do die first.
Ukraine
Feb. 7, 2023
Corruption investigations expose bribery and extortion plots across a variety of Odesa institutions, with serious consequences for those convicted.
War in Ukraine
Feb. 6, 2023
Between Ukraine’s law prohibiting military-age men from leaving the country and bureaucratic snafus, many commercial seafarers have had to resort to bribes in order to work.
Russia
Jan. 29, 2023
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on the latest surrounding Russian war lord Yevgeny Prigozin.
Corruption
Jan. 15, 2023
Ukraine’s grain exports are mired in cases of suspected fraud, money laundering and bribery, with the alleged involvement of Odesa customs officials.
Ukraine
Jan. 13, 2023
Whether Ukraine prevails in several months or several years, we must start thinking about and planning the post-war reconstruction and state building now.
War in Ukraine
Nov. 9, 2022
One couple buried their phones in the garden to keep them from being seized by the Russian invaders. Others gave away their cars or paid bribes to get Russian troops to let them flee to Ukrainian-held
War in Ukraine
Nov. 7, 2022
One couple buried their phones in the garden to keep them from being seized by the Russian invaders. Others gave away their cars or paid bribes to get Russian troops to let them flee to Ukrainian-held
War in Ukraine
Oct. 1, 2022
Key Takeaways Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the illegal Russian annexation of four Ukrainian territories on September 30 without clearly defining the borders of those claimed territories.
War in Ukraine
Sep. 27, 2022
First comes the scent of pine needles. The semi-sweet, rotten orange smell of corpses is a little later. The most recently discovered mass grave of the Russo-Ukraine war is on the northern outskirts o
War in Ukraine
Jul. 18, 2022
Police officers all over the world have to deal with motorists violating the rules of the road. In Ukraine’s southern port city of Mykolaiv, in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainia
War in Ukraine
Jun. 12, 2022
Sanctioned by Ukraine in the past over his close ties to Russia, Dmytro Firtash, one of the country’s wealthiest citizens, made international headlines this week for saying he is sheltering hundreds o
May. 19, 2022
Russian Federation (RF) recruiters ordered to find men or else are employing strong-arm tactics to fill army ranks, but Russian public enthusiasm to fight in Ukraine is low and draft evasion is rampan
Apr. 21, 2022
From lies and hatemongering to military aggression, atrocities and genocide Disinformation, fake news, cynicism, bluff, threats, blackmail and seduction with bribes and lucrative schemes have all beco
Jan. 3, 2022
Michael Yurkovich, the CEO of TIU Canada, isn’t in Ukraine for another ribbon-cutting ceremony or to commission a fourth solar energy power plant. Instead, the Calgary-based investor ended up disasse
Jun. 25, 2021
The most expensive road in modern Ukrainian history will be built with no oversight. Construction of the “Ring Road” beltway around Kyiv will be exempt from having to go through transparent procuremen
May. 21, 2021
Volodymyr Zelensky gave his anniversary press conference on May 20, marking his second year as Ukraine’s president. The press conference took place in a symbolic setting — inside a hangar at the Anton
Mar. 17, 2021
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz used a private jet allegedly belonging to fugitive oligarch Dmytro Firtash to travel home from a high-level meeting in Tel Aviv, writes the Austrian news website Zac
Feb. 4, 2021
Many third-year Indian students were expelled from Ukraine’s medical universities last year because they didn’t pass the Krok exam that allows all undergraduates to study medicine in Ukraine. Now thes