Iryna Vyrtosu

Two years after tragedy: Is there any progress in investigation into shootings on Maidan?
Articles - 29 February 2016

Two years after tragedy: Is there any progress in investigation into shootings on Maidan?

As of now, we only know about two law enforcement officers convicted yet in May 2014 and two arrested Berkut riot police force officers

Discrimination within framework of reforms?
Columns - 24 February 2016

Discrimination within framework of reforms?

Everyone will benefit from protection against discrimination. Why is it so difficult for our MPs to understand this?

Ghost employees or Why do work record cards are employed instead of persons with disabilities?
Articles - 23 February 2016

Ghost employees or Why do work record cards are employed instead of persons with disabilities?

The experts from the State Employment Center often call employers and ask directly whether they need a disabled person

Refat Chubarov. ‘Those, who have brought us this pain should disappear, it’s the most important thing’
Articles - 27 January 2016

Refat Chubarov. ‘Those, who have brought us this pain should disappear, it’s the most important thing’

I love the steppe Crimea, I love the sea and the steppe, when a harsh herbal infusion of August steppe mixes with the sea smell...

Anastasia. ‘This story is about people from both sides of border who don’t need war’
Articles - 24 December 2015

Anastasia. ‘This story is about people from both sides of border who don’t need war’

When the first wave of mobilization started, they took every fourth father in our school. Some continue to fight and some will never return

Just a chronic disease, or Five Comments on HIV
Articles - 27 November 2015

Just a chronic disease, or Five Comments on HIV

HIV infection can be controlled. People do not die from AIDS as it was 20-30 years ago

Yulia Resenchuk. Fancy destroyer of stereotypes
Articles - 23 November 2015

Yulia Resenchuk. Fancy destroyer of stereotypes

Haven’t you made friends with her on Facebook yet? Haven’t you asked her for an autograph yet? Haven’t you recognized her in the street yet? You’re welcome to meet Yulia Resenchuk, a girl who makes a revolution in changing our attitude

Right to arms: between freedom, life and death
Articles - 06 November 2015

Right to arms: between freedom, life and death

The Maidan protests, the annexation of Crimea, the military conflict in Donbas have made the Ukrainian society think about the right to self-defense and the firearm permit.

Psychiatric hospitals and psycho-neurological residential facilities: torture instead of help
Articles - 22 October 2015

Psychiatric hospitals and psycho-neurological residential facilities: torture instead of help

The residents of the psychiatric hospitals and psycho-neurological residential facilities in Chernihiv region live in inappropriate conditions.

Transit Budapest
Articles - 12 September 2015

Transit Budapest

The camp resembles a large busy hive. However, I don’t feel hopelessness despite the dirt, autumn drizzling rain and hardships.

On the way to ghetto, or How people are banned from speaking Crimean Tatar in Crimea
Articles - 11 September 2015

On the way to ghetto, or How people are banned from speaking Crimean Tatar in Crimea

Crimean Tatars are started to be discriminated in Crimea

Rescuing people or serving the war?
Articles - 07 September 2015

Rescuing people or serving the war?

"People get used to expecting help, while we teach them such an attitude"

Kateryna Pikun. Displaced woman having wings
Articles - 30 July 2015

Kateryna Pikun. Displaced woman having wings

"I'll remember for all my life what it means to lose everything. The old kettle, growling funny in the kitchen, your favorite books, old photo albums ... You come to a place, where you don’t even have your own cup..."

Viktoria Ivleva. A person who stops war
Articles - 29 July 2015

Viktoria Ivleva. A person who stops war

The war will be over. There are many people, who stop it, both in Ukraine and Russia. Viktoria Ivleva has become a real discovery for me. She is a Russian journalist, who collects humanitarian aid for Donbas

Investigation into Maidan events is stonewalled – Experts
Articles - 05 July 2015

Investigation into Maidan events is stonewalled – Experts

The information about shutting down the Office of Special Investigations into Crimes Committed on EuroMaidan has set the whole public in turmoil

The Exhibition “My Place” Tells the Stories of People, not IDPs
Articles - 14 May 2015

The Exhibition “My Place” Tells the Stories of People, not IDPs

I do not like the term IDPs because it seems to me that when a person is called an IDP, it's like a brand, a label of a defective good...

Oleg Sentsov: “I feel far freer than most Russians”
Articles - 05 May 2015

Oleg Sentsov: “I feel far freer than most Russians”

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko are facing 20-year sentences for not cooperating with the FSB and ‘confessing’ to a Right Sector ‘terrorist plot

Price of Independence for a Ukrainian Judge
Articles - 15 April 2015

Price of Independence for a Ukrainian Judge

The case of Serhiy Bondarenko, a judge in the Court of Appeals in Cherkasy Oblast, resembles a detective story, full of details and documents and conspiracy

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