Prosthetics for Ukrainian veterans. New project by ODF and Aether Biomedical

Prosthetics for Ukrainian veterans. New project by ODF and Aether Biomedical

Since February 2022, with dozens of humanitarian missions to Ukraine we’ve delivered millions of Euros worth of aid – both to civilians and Ukraine’s defenders on the front line. Simultaneously we’ve supported thousands of women and children seeking shelter in Poland. Now, finally, we found a way to also help the heroes who lost the […]

Bionic prosthetics for Ukrainian veterans

Bionic prosthetics for Ukrainian veterans

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have lost their limbs. Many of them, like Alexander Kulyk, a Lviv native and former entrepreneur, are now undergoing rehabilitation at the UNBROKEN National Rehabilitation Centre in Lviv. “It happened near Bachmut, when I was launching a drone and was […]

Supporting Andrii, our volunteer: mission to Ukraine’s frontline

Supporting Andrii, our volunteer: mission to Ukraine’s frontline

Between 2 and 6 September 2024, we carried out another humanitarian mission to the frontline in Ukraine. This time, we visited Kyiv, Cherkasy, and the area around Pokrovsk, where some of the most intense fighting with Russian occupiers has taken place in recent months. As part of the mission, we delivered military aid worth nearly […]

Interview: Lyudmyla Kozlovska – Human Rights, Crypto, & Policy

Interview: Lyudmyla Kozlovska – Human Rights, Crypto, & Policy

As a high-level introduction, Lyudmyla Kozlovska founded the Open Dialogue Foundation (“ODF”) in 2009 with the goal of protecting human rights, supporting democracy, and assisting those who are subject to political persecution in Eastern Europe. She also founded the Building True Change Coalition (“BTC Coalition”) to address financial exclusion, political oppression and deliver humanitarian aid, while promoting the role […]

Building True Change (BTC) Coalition Submission on the EU Proposal for a Regulation on the prevention of money laundering or terrorist financing

Building True Change (BTC) Coalition Submission on the EU Proposal for a Regulation on the prevention of money laundering or terrorist financing

Statement-commentary During the April II plenary session, Parliament is due to vote on provisional agreements resulting from interinstitutional negotiations on the adoption of the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing […]

Championing Financial Freedom: Lyudmyla Kozlovska on Bitcoin’s Role in Human Rights

Championing Financial Freedom: Lyudmyla Kozlovska on Bitcoin’s Role in Human Rights

Read the full article: tftc.io See also: Cap Hill Crypto: Interview: Lyudmyla Kozlovska – Human Rights, Crypto, & Policy (May 31, 2024) The Progressive Bitcoiner: TPB80 – Bitcoin Rights are Human Rights with Lyudmyla Kozlovska (March 26, 2024) Lugano’s Plan ₿: Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: her story, her struggles, and her achievements (February 23, 2024) Tio: Lugano’s Plan […]

Ukraine: We Must Not Give Up. Appeal to the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Ramstein coalition

Ukraine: We Must Not Give Up. Appeal to the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Ramstein coalition

Some European countries continue to offer only extremely modest bilateral military aid to Ukraine. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg and France are among the most parsimonious members of the Ramstein coalition. They are thus taking advantage of the generosity of their allies, betraying their own past leadership and undermining the cohesion of Europe. Bilateral military […]

Help for Ukraine

Help for Ukraine

In light of the unprecedented escalation of the war against Ukraine – an armed attack by Russian troops on the morning of 24 February 2022 – we are launching an urgent fundraising campaign to support our friends and neighbours. Ukrainians today are defending Poland, Europe and the values of the entire West – and they […]

Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: her story, her struggles, and her achievements

Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: her story, her struggles, and her achievements

Read more: planb.lugano.ch See other interviews with Lyudmyla Kozlovska: Lugano’s Plan ₿. Defending Human Rights with Bitcoin: Interview with Lyudmyla Kozlovska (Decemner 28, 2023) What is wrong with the current AML/CFT law and how is it being used against NGOs? (December 12, 2023) How Bitcoin became a tool for NGOs — an interview with Lyudmyla […]

Summary of the Christmas mission to Avdiivka (15–20 December 2023)

Summary of the Christmas mission to Avdiivka (15–20 December 2023)

In December 2023, a Christmas humanitarian mission to the frontline in Ukraine took place under the aegis of the Open Dialogue Foundation. Among the participants were our friends from the Red Poppy Charity, Anioły Miłosierdzia (Angels of Mercy) and the Latvian Ganta Fonds. The mission was also accompanied by war correspondent Marcin Wyrwał. This time […]

Defend PoW: Submission to ESMA

Defend PoW: Submission to ESMA

The Open Dialogue Foundation (ODF) welcomes the opportunity to participate in this consultation of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) concerning “Technical Standards specifying certain requirements of Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA)”. We believe our comments will help to shape the regulation of the use of crypto-assets in line with fundamental rights not only in the EU, as well as the new AML/CFT Regulation, and will be reflected in the relevant report and recommendations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation Europe (OSCE PA), as well as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations regarding non-profit organisations.

Russia circumventing Canadian sanctions to buy mine detonators: report

Russia circumventing Canadian sanctions to buy mine detonators: report

Read the full article on: theglobeandmail.com See our report: Russia’s Accomplices in the War Against Ukraine: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Army’s Reliable Rear (May 9, 2023) and also: Jan Rymszewicz: The Globe & Mail: “Russia circumventing Canadian sanctions to buy mine detonators: report” (January 12, 2024)

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