Tag: Ukraine

Inefficiency and non-transparency of Ukraine’s energy sector have a major impact on the budget and the economy. Ukraine has the highest rate of energy use per unit of GDP among all the neighboring countries.

The Internet edition of Wprost published analysis on the Ukrainian presidential elections. The article also poses the question of whether Ukraine will succeed in taking on a democratic, pro-European course, or if the country will remain under Russia’s influence.

Agnieszka Piasecka was talking on TVN24 Biznes i Świat about the possibility of Chechen mercenaries participating in the crisis in Ukraine:

A family from the Crimea approached the Open Dialogue Foundation asking for help. At the time of the referendum, which was held in March 2014, they detected electoral fraud and propaganda actions on the Internet, opposing the misinformation disseminated by the pro-Russian media.

22-year-old female Ukrainian press photographer, Milana Omelchuk has finally returned to Kiev after two weeks in terrorist captivity.

We’ve been actively helping in the development of civil society in Ukraine and the support of pro-European changes in Poland’s eastern neighbouring state for half a year now.

On 13.05.2014, in Brussels, a Memorandum of Understanding and Loan Agreement were signed between Ukraine as a borrower and the EU as the lender in order to provide macro-financial assistance in the amount of €1 billion.

At the Drukarz football club stadium in the Skaryszewski Park in Warsaw, the Open Dialogue Foundation together with the Daj Szansę Foundation and Paweł Zalewski, MEP, organised a match in order to express their objection to racism at sports stadiums and the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

On 23 May, 2014, Kiev will host the 1st All-Ukrainian Congress of Forcibly Displaced Persons from the Crimea.

Ukraine signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) on January 20, 2000. It was then that the ratification process began; however, it stalled in June 2001 when the provisions of the Rome Statute were found to be in contravention of state laws.

In a talk on tvp.info, Krzysztof Bukowski was speaking about the spirits before the referendum in Donbas

Interviewed by Polsat News, Chair of the Foundation’s Council, Bartosz Kramek, talked about the situation before the presidential elections in Ukraine, the separatists’ determination and the engagement of the West in the conflict in Ukraine

The Open Dialogue Foundation has transferred 2,000 UAH for the treatment of the athlete and fighter of ‘Alpha’ Special Forces Unit, who was wounded in Slavyansk.

Interviewed by TVN24 Biznes i Świat, Open Dialogue Foundation’s observer, Agnieszka Piasecka, estimated the chances of de-escalation of the conflict in relation to the appeal from the Russian Federation’s President to postpone the referendum in the east of Ukraine, planned for 11th May.

Within the framework of the aid provided for Ukrainians in Poland, the Open Dialogue Foundation contacted the centre for refugees located in Czerwony Bór.