Section: Global Voices (The Netherlands)
GV Face: Voting After the Revolution in Tunisia and Ukraine
Tunisia and Ukraine recently held elections, a challenging feat in a post-revolutionary time. In both countries cutting-edge online platforms were deployed to raise awareness and help monitor voting but the election process itself was marred with logistical difficulties and other circumstances, like the ongoing conflict with pro-Russian forces in...
Aleksandr Makarenko: Digital Quartermaster for Ukraine’s Army
Aleksandr Makarenko has raised over $75,000 for Ukrainian soldiers. Image from Facebook. This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of Russian-language blogosphere in Eastern Ukraine. Explore the complete interview series on the Eastern Ukraine Unfiltered page. It’s no secret that Ukraine’s armed forces have been woefully...
Ukraine Elections Online: Crowdmaps To Report Voter Fraud, Hashtags To Vent About Politics
As Darth Vader from the Internet Party of Ukraine voted on Sunday, voters used crowdmaps and hashtags to report on election fraud. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. As Ukraine went to the polls this past Sunday, October 26, to choose its new parliament amid ongoing unrest and conflict in the East, voters once again turned to the Internet to seek...
Russian and Ukrainian Musicians Caught Between Conflict, Bitter Rhetoric and Bans
Andrei Makarevich wears a ribbon with the colors of the Ukrainian Flag in the March of Peace in Moscow on March 15th. Image from Wikimedia Commons As Russian singer Andrei Makarevich was performing at the House of Music in Moscow on September 25, , members of the unregistered nationalist party “Other Russia” disrupted the show, yelled “Traitor!”...
Russian Opposition Leaders Support Ukraine, But Crimea Is Not Coming Back
Russian opposition leaders Khodorkovsky and Navalny speak out on Crimea. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Russia’s leading opposition figures have a message for Ukrainians: Crimea is gone, and Ukraine is not getting it back. Currently under house arrest for dubious embezzlement charges, Putin’s harshest critic and anti-corruption...
Death By Firing Squad in Eastern Ukraine over a Cartoon?
“Mutant Vatnik,” YouTube screen capture, written by Irena Karpa. Published October 10, 2014. Did the Luhansk rebels’ minister of culture just ask a local court to execute a Ukrainian writer over an online cartoon? Or was the bizarre request for capital punishment part of a propaganda campaign by forces in Kyiv, bent on damaging the...
Facebook Weighs In on the Ukraine-Russia Takedown Dispute
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. In the social media war that has played out alongside the conflict on the ground in Ukraine, users on all sides resort to desperate measures: numerous complaints, reporting content, and mass commenting are all part of the arsenal. Disciplining the abusers is sometimes next to impossible, unless they violate a...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Does ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ on Russian Geek Forum
Pavel Klimkin holds up a piece of paper for a proof pic during his online chat. Image from Facebook. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin showed up on d3.ru, a Russian geek forum, this morning to do an ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ style Q&A session with its users. Klimkin, who is fairly active on Twitter, spent an hour answering questions...
New Document Leak Reveals Scope of Collaboration Between Moscow and Donetsk
Image mixed by Kevin Rothrock. Anonymous Ukrainian hackers have leaked a cache of documents revealing the interactions between separatists in eastern Ukrainian and a Russian far-right political party. Among the seemingly endless bureaucratic documents, a few hidden gems reveal plans for a fuel delivery network between Russia and the...
Ukrainian Band Blows Up YouTube with Wild Apple-Inspired Music Video
The “Knock Knock” video was shot in one take and uses 14 different screens to tell its story. Image from YouTube. A little-known Ukrainian indie rock collective has captured the hearts of YouTube users—and Apple fans—with a cleverly shot music video that now has over half a million views. Brunettes Shoot Blondes, an indie-rock band from Kryvyi...
