In the end of March, 2022, OPORA published an investigation "The Clutches of Russian Fraudsters or Where the Compassion for the Killed Ukrainian Heroes Can Take You " on the activities of a large-scale network of pages that were growing their audience through the manipulative clickbait content, specifically abusing the information about the KIA Ukrainian soldiers.

Last week (May 22–28), the Russians were shocked that the war they started in Ukraine had spread to their territory. Russia denies the existence of Ukraine, continues to absorb Belarus through the alleged deployment of nuclear weapons there, and threatens Poland.  Following another regular meeting in the Ramstein format, we learned that Denmark and the Netherlands would lead the process of training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft. The allies also announced $65 billion of military assistance...

Last week (May 15–21), international meetings took place, which showed unwavering support for Ukraine. In particular, at the G7 summit, the United States joined the "coalition of fighters" for Ukraine. At the Summit of the Council of Europe, they created a Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation. To discredit Ukraine and reduce military assistance, Russia convened yet another meeting of the Security Council, which did not yield any diplomatic success for the aggr...

Elections in Ukraine: exclusive online-talk of the PACE President Tiny Kox with Olga Aivazovska, Head of the Civil Network “OPORA”*

For the past three years, political parties have had the right not to report their spending. Now it is necessary to adopt a law on the resumption of reporting, which is one of the preconditions for Ukraine's accession to the European Union. In addition, such a decision will increase the voters' trust in parties because it will testify to their transparency.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, restrictions have intensified. Now the Russian Federation is blocking everything they are not able to control. Since the summer of 2022, there has been no free access to radio and television in the temporarily occupied territories (TOTs), neither to most Ukrainian and international websites nor even popular social networks. As a result, residents are cut off from impartial news and fall under the crushing influence of Russian propaganda. Civil N...

In this report, OPORA described in detail the measures undertaken by Russia to restrict access to the Ukrainian information field in the temporarily occupied territories, as well as the scale and dynamics of the development of an alternative media infrastructure for the information service provision for the needs of the occupation in the social network Vkontakte and in Telegram messenger. We analyzed the content of the occupers’ pages and channels, and classified them by content type. Data co...

Last week (May 8–14), Ukraine rejected the Soviet-inspired tradition of celebrating Victory Day on May 9. It caused hysteria and sharp criticism among Russian politicians. Russia held a modest parade in Moscow, with almost no military equipment or sensational statements. Instead, Ukraine continues to advocate for its accession to the EU and NATO and calls for increasing the supply of weapons for a counteroffensive.