Category Archives: Eyewitness stories

YURI BUTUSOV: To everyone who was on the Maidan on December 1st

Posted on December 4, 2017 by chervonaruta

By Yuri Butusov, Ukrainian journalist and editor-in-chief of censor.net.ua Dec. 1, 2017 Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine Four years ago I left the house and saw an unforgettable image. Lines of people stretched to the subway from every house in … Continue reading →

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News from Oleksandr Kostenko #FreeKostenko

Posted on May 21, 2017 by chervonaruta

By Yana Goncharova, Russian activist 05.18.2017 Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine News from [Oleksandr] Sasha Kostenko: A few weeks ago Sasha was taken to the hospital to determine how important it is to perform surgery on his arm … Continue reading →

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Emergency Reform Package: The main challenges in 2017

Posted on January 18, 2017 by chervonaruta

By Taras Shevchenko, Co-Chair of the Emergency Reform Package 01.12.2016 Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine We need to work hard so that the government does not roll the reforms back It’s been three years since the Revolution of Dignity. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Alexander Kolchenko meets with members of Chelyabinsk region OIC #FreeKolchenko

Posted on October 6, 2016 by chervonaruta

By Tatiana Shchur, text. Photos by Olga Frolova and Russian Federal Penitentiary Service staff. 10.05.2016 Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine Yesterday, October 5th, Russian human rights activists Nikolay Shchur and Olga Frolova, members of the Chelyabinsk region Public Supervisory Commission (OIC) met with … Continue reading →

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Separation: A Ukrainian WWII Survival Memoir by Stepan Fedenko (an excerpt)

Posted on August 24, 2016 by chervonaruta

By Stepan Fedenko 03.06.2015 Translated by his grandson Damian Oleksiuk with some light editing from Voices of Ukraine ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Stepan Fedenko was born January 3rd, 1926 in the Ukrainian village of Uherci, now Uhry, southwest of Lviv. He studied … Continue reading →

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