Section: The Netherlands
Meet the Activist Trying to Bring Ukraine’s Villages Online
Orest and Oksana Olinik in their shop in Khrystanivka. Source: Ethan Daish and Elisabeth Lima “I don’t really like Europe. In Europe, 99 percent of things are finished; here, there is work to be done,” says Oksana Olinik, standing in the small Soviet-era shop she and her husband Orest have just opened in the village of Khrystanivka in...
Meet Russia’s Warrior-Writer and Bloodthirsty Priest
Photo: Pixabay. In addition to being a prominent contemporary writer in Russia, Zakhar Prilepin is a vocal political ideologue. A member of the National Bolshevik Party, he hosts a talk show on the nationalist, ultra-conservative Tsargrad TV network. Prilepin is also the chief editor of Svobodnaya Pressa, another pro-Kremlin media outlet that...
‘Zelyonka:’ the Anti-Putin Antiseptic
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Source: Navalny.com “Zelyonka,” a green topical antiseptic used in Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe, is back in the headlines: On March 19, Russian opposition leader and presidential candidate Alexei Navalny was attacked with the antiseptic outside his campaign headquarters in the Siberian...
Dutch take power ballad Lights and Shadows to Eurovision
The number which girl group OG3NE will perform for the Netherlands at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev was… …read more Source:...
Ukraine Will Blacklist Websites That ‘Undermine Ukrainian Sovereignty’
Rally in support of Novorossiya in Moscow, June 11, 2014. Source: Artem Tkachenko, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ukraine’s Ministry of Information Policy is preparing a list of websites that “undermine Ukrainian sovereignty” as part of an effort to uphold the country’s new information security doctrine, signed on February 25 by President Petro...
911 for Donbass: Meet the App That Will Keep Ukrainians Updated About Military Attacks
Source: Vyacheslav Abroskin, Facebook. An app that informs users about military attacks and lets them contact law enforcement in seconds will soon go live in Ukraine—and, its creators hope, reduce casualties among civilians in the war-torn eastern regions of the country. For nearly three years, the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that compose the...
Dutch lower house votes in favour of Ukraine treaty compromise
As expected, the compromise struck between prime minister Mark Rutte and the European Commission was backed in the Dutch parliament… …read more Source:...
Controversial ‘Crashing Airplane’ Advertisement Stirs Serbian Presidential Elections Debate
Images from the video promoting candidacy by Aleksandar Vučić for president of Serbia. Serbia will hold presidential elections this April, and current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić this month announced his candidacy for president. Just a few day later his campaign published a video commercial comparing the country to an airplane in danger of...
Journalist images ‘don’t suggest more MH17 human remains’, says minister
Images and evidence collected in eastern Ukraine by a Dutch journalist who returned with a piece of bone from an… …read more Source:...
Out of time: no Ukraine treaty vote before the election
The Dutch parliament will not take a decision about whether or not to ratify the EU’s treaty with Ukraine before… …read more Source:...
