Society & Culture

Over the last day, 900 people, including 217 children, were evacuated from the front line in Donetsk region. According to Ukrinform, this was reported on Facebook by the head of the Donetsk Military District Administration Vadym Filashkin. “In just one day, Russians fired 23 times at the settlements of Donetsk region. 900 people were evacuated from the front line, including 217 children,” Filashkin wrote. It is noted that a person died in Bohoyavlenka, Volnovakha district. As for the situation in Pokrovsk district, a person was wounded in Kurakhove, two high-rise buildings and two educational institutions were damaged in Hirnyk, and…

After the war ends, Russia will not give up trying to influence Ukrainian society, spreading propaganda, trying to bring conflicts, but it will invest even more resources and efforts in attacking in cultural and informational space. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Ukrinform by the founder and leader of the Cultural Forces union, singer and cultural figure Mykolai Sierga. "One should not think that with the end of the war, on the other side of the border, from the east and the north, attempts to influence Ukrainian society will stop, the spread of propaganda, attempts to bring conflicts…

Five judges of the liquidated Supreme Court of Ukraine have been reassigned to the renewed Supreme Court. Some judges are suing for the payment of their salaries as Supreme Court judges, in the amount of about UAH 300,000, for the preceding years during which they did not work. President of the Supreme Court, Stanislav Kravchenko, said this in a commentary to Ukrinform. Kravchenko said that in early January 2024, judges Bohdan Poshva, Oleh Kryvenda, Anatoliy Yemets, Tetyana Zhayvoronok and Viktor Shkoliarov, along with employees from the former Supreme Court apparatus, were appointed to the Supreme Court in accordance with the…

Activists are gathering people’s votes for a petition to the Bundestag to recognize the deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide. Signatures will be collected through October 22. The petition can be signed on the Bundestag website. Signatures can also be filed by mail, reports Ukrinform. The petition was initiated by the Germany-based Crimean Cultural Center "KERMEN" (Krimer-Kulturzentrum "KERMEN"). According to the founder of the organization, Elvis Çolpuh, for many, Crimea is the sea, mountains, and resorts, but for the Crimean Tatar people, it is their only home. "The Crimeans (Crimean Tatars) have no other homeland except Crimea,"…

The Russian Zvezda TV channel and its related information resources are actively used to create and spread disinformation and propaganda, in particular, to justify aggression against Ukraine. The employees of this TV channel visit the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and provide information supporting the aggressive war. All activities of the channel and other divisions of its media group are under the control of the Russian Defence Ministry. Ownership structure and management bodies The Zvezda TV channel is a part of the federal media holding “Television Company of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ZVEZDA”. This media holding has…

It is necessary to create conditions so that Ukrainian artists can freely travel abroad in order to popularize our country despite the existing restrictions applied to draft-age male Ukrainians. This was stated by the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications, Mykola Tochytskyi, who spoke with journalists within the framework of the forum and cultural platform "Ukraine is Open To the World", an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "The minstry’s task is to create conditions for every artist to be able to travel easily, unhindered, based on transparent rules," said Tochytskyi. He noted that Western partners are ready to help finance such trips.…

The Russian occupation forces are actively circulating propaganda literature in daycare facilities, schools, and libraries in the captured areas of Ukraine’s Kherson region. The Yellow Ribbon resistance movement reported this via Telegram, Ukrinform saw. "Activists from the Yellow Ribbon movement report that the occupation authorities are actively filling educational and art facilities with propaganda literature. The process is called ‘literature replacement’. In reality, publications glorifying the ‘heroic feats’ of the Russian military appear in schools and libraries," the report reads. According to activists, in the Chaplynka district, first-graders were given the "Alphabet of Kherson", where each page bears an image…

A mine safety simulator has appeared on the Diia.Osvita portal of e-government services, through which Ukrainians will be able to test their knowledge in the area. The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. "The simulator will help make sure that you know how to react in emergency situations. In order to minimize the threat, it is worth knowing what signs and markings warn of it, how to recognize a suspicious item, and what to do if it is detected. You can check your knowledge in the new Mine Safety simulator for Diia.Osvita," the Ministry of Internal…

The Toronto International Film Festival has decided to cancel all further screenings of a propaganda documentary Russians at War. That’s according to a statement released September 12, seen by Ukrinform. "TIFF is forced to pause the upcoming screenings of Russians at War on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as we have been made aware of significant threats to festival operations and public safety," the statement said. It is noted that this is an "unprecedented move" for TIFF. “As a cultural institution, we support civil discourse about and through films, including differences of opinion, and we fully support peaceful assembly. However, we…

The Fourth Summit of Ladies and Gentlemen, held in Kyiv, resulted in a joint declaration on the protection of children's rights. This was reported by the initiator of the event, Ukrainian president’s spouse Olena Zelenska, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. "The result of today's summit is a joint declaration. The declaration agrees on the key priorities for the future – protecting children’s rights and guaranteeing a safe future, ensuring the safety of the child in a family, at school, in cyberspace, and amid armed conflicts," said Zelenska. She noted that the document refers to the need to focus on the implementation…