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Like any other Ukrainian, the last 12 months have presented Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda’s editor-in-chief, with innumerable challenges: from her team’s safety and security to the outlet’s financial support to how to operate amid power outages caused by Russian shelling. © Courtesy of S. Musaieva.

Musaieva: “Without Courage, Journalism Dies”

The chief editor of Ukrainska Pravda, Ukraine’s oldest online newspaper, on the cost of propaganda and the value of investigating corruption.

22 Feb 23

Serhiy Prytula is a former TV presenter, actor and politician who has been fundraising since 2014 in the wake of the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea. © Lesya Kharchenko

Prytula: “It Depends On You”

How an entertainment celebrity raised tens of millions to buy drones for Ukraine.

22 Feb 23

Olena Khromova and her husband Oleh opened the café Protagoniste in 2019 and planned to create a space to bring Kharkiv’s creative youth together. © Liudmyla Budina

Khromova: Serving Coffee Under Fire

Kharkiv café-cum-bar Protagoniste kept its doors open throughout the war, offering an island of normality amid shelling and air raids.

22 Feb 23

Iryna Kondratova is head of the Kharkiv Regional Perinatal Centre. © Ihor Tambiiev

Kondratova: Saving Kharkhiv’s Babies

The doctor never left her clinic, providing critical support to mothers and newborns.

22 Feb 23

Oleksandr Kamyshin is head of Ukraine’s rail state company. © Ukrzaliznytsia’s press office

Kamyshin: Leading Ukraine’s Iron Diplomacy

How a manager tasked with reforming a train network became a wartime director of operations.

22 Feb 23

A mother holds the children she gave birth to as a result of in-vitro fertilisation. In January, the Armenian government announced a large-scale free programme to address the country's low infertility rate. © Fertility Center of Armenia

Armenia Offers Free IVF to Tackle Population Decline

Authorities are taking measures to address high infertility rate and address demographic challenges.

3 Feb 23

Family doctor Natalya Tunik conducts a medical appointment in Sunki, a village in the central region of Cherkasy, where there is no hospital. © Photo courtesy of N. Tunik

Doctors on Wheels: Ukraine’s Mobile Medical Teams

Project delivers medical aid to people in remote areas and those displaced by the war.

2 Feb 23

Left: A boy from Bobrovyi Kut chooses a toy distributed by volunteers. Right: A girl in Kalinivskoe receives soft toys from volunteers. © Anastasia Rokitna

Ukraine: Scars of Occupation Run Deep

Locals say that the physical and emotional damage will take a long time to heal.

31 Jan 23

Supporters of former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili gather outside court in Tbilisi, Georgia. Photo from 2021. © Daro Sulakauri/Getty Images

Georgia: Fate of Ailing Saakashvili Remains Unclear

Tbilisi has refused to acknowledge medical needs as genuine or to release jailed former leader for treatment.

17 Jan 23

A mosque in the village of Karakemer, in Kazakstan’s south-eastern Jambyl province. Kazakstans laws foresee that citizens can be punished for dissemination of religious materials, even if they are of a non-extremist nature. This even extends to selling a copy of the Quran or the New Testament on classified sites. © Petr Trotsenko RFE/RL

Kazakstan: Fined for a Book of Bible Stories

Citizens can be punished for dissemination of religious materials, even if of a non-extremist nature.

13 Jan 23

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Musaieva: “Without Courage, Journalism Dies”

Prytula: “It Depends On You”

Khromova: Serving Coffee Under Fire

Kondratova: Saving Kharkhiv’s Babies

Kamyshin: Leading Ukraine’s Iron Diplomacy

Armenia Offers Free IVF to Tackle Population Decline

Doctors on Wheels: Ukraine’s Mobile Medical Teams

Ukraine: Scars of Occupation Run Deep

Georgia: Fate of Ailing Saakashvili Remains Unclear

Kazakstan: Fined for a Book of Bible Stories

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