Last week (May, 30 – June, 6), Ukraine and the world actively discussed a new sanctions package against russia, formats for solving the food crisis provoked by russia, and possible ways to end the war. After a long break, vladimir putin reappeared in the media and shifted his responsibility for global problems arising from his aggression against Ukraine. The aggressor state does not conceal its hopes that European societies will grow weary of war and its economic consequences, and that their ...

On June 3, the Council of the European Union formally approved the sixth package of economic and personal sanctions against Russia and Belarus. Among them, perhaps the most important is the oil embargo. Participants in OPORA's Friday online discussion "War Speeches" talked about how economic sanctions affect russia's economy and whether it is possible to resist attempts to circumvent them, and the main narratives that Russia disseminated the previous week.

Since the full-scale invasion of Russia, most of our citizens, namely 76.6%, have been receiving news from social networks. Telegram, YouTube, Facebook came out in the TOP 3 in popularity. Such are the results of a sociological survey on media consumption of Ukrainians in a full-scale war presented by OPORA. In addition, experts discussed issues of self-regulation in social networks, combating misinformation, and how all these challenges of modern realities can be fixed in national legislatio...

In three weeks, the European Council will consider granting Ukraine EU candidate status. Many in the EU underestimate the importance of this step. Those promoting its postponement are well heard; however, this will harm both Ukraine and the EU itself. We explain why it will slow down the post-war reforms in Ukraine; undermine democracy in other countries, including Western Balkans; increase the EU budget's burden, and push for new instability in Europe.

Before the invasion, fakers mostly focused on schemes to steal the money from common citizens (such as by selling the non-existent goods or services). During the war, some dishonest Ukrainian people changed the focus and expanded the scale of their action: now the rogue schemes have become more cynical and more related to people’s life and health. For example, they offer fake evacuation options from the occupied territories. The rogues are hunting for their “clients” not in a subway or by pho...

For the majority of Ukrainians, social networks became the main source of thews about the war—76.6 of the respondents use them for getting information. The most popual networks are Telegram, YouTube, and Facebook. At the same time, Viber as a source of information is used mostly by the middle-age users, Twitter is popular among the youth, and TikTok found its niche amonf the respondents aged 60-69.

Ukrainians have the greatest confidence in television, social networks and the Internet. This is the data of the poll conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from May, 3 to 26, commissioned by OPORA.

After the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine by the russian federation on February 24, Ukrainian society has been monitoring news, the updates from the front, and official statements of the Ukrainian authorities, and foreign leaders.