“The topic we dug into this time calls for a long conversation to understand what people think about the challenges facing democracy in Ukraine during the war,” admits Denys Kobzin, Director of the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research , during the presentation of our new major study on democracy in wartime. On the 7th of April in Kyiv, we brought together media professionals, analysts, and sociologists to present the results of our joint work with the Kharkiv Institute for S

On March 3 in Yahidne, Chernihiv region, the audio guide “Yahidne. A Village in Captivity” was presented. It was created by the Public Interest Journalism Lab to mark the fourth anniversary of the village’s occupation. On this day in 2022, Russian troops forced 368 residents — almost the entire village — into the basement of the local school. Among them were elderly people, children, and infants. They were held there for a month as a human shield, as the Russians set up the

On January 20, a presentation of the book On One’s Own Skin  by journalist Svitlana Oslavska took place at Sens Bookstore in Kyiv. Despite another shelling and power and water outages on the left bank of the city, people made their way to the city center to take part in the discussion about the experience of occupation, testimonies of war crimes, and what helps people survive and speak after what they have lived through. On One’s Own Skin  is the result of Svitlana Oslavska’s