My morning starts with a quest: how to brew coffee when there is no electricity. It’s supplied chaotically for 2 hours a day, and this morning I was out of luck. A small stove with a gas cylinder stands in…
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Ukraine faces many challenges, but 2026 brought a new and perhaps the most difficult one. For the first time since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine is encountering a shift in the political rhetoric of its partners and a…
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If you look at satellite images of Europe at night, Kyiv resembles a black hole. The enormous metropolis, which glowed with lights just five years ago, is barely noticeable today. Successive Russian shelling has halted the operation of facilities responsible…
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Entrepreneurship In Ukraine | How It Really Started – Yana Matviychuk’s Story People often ask where everything began — the business, the humanitarian work, the advocacy. They expect a glamorous story. I always tell the truth: it started with $300…
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When Ukrainian entrepreneur Yana Matviychuk opened her laptop one September morning, she saw something she couldn’t believe — an article about the strike on Foros, Crimea, published under her name on one of Ukraine’s leading news sites, Ukrainska Pravda. The…
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Valentyna Pavsykova is a Ukrainian-born missionary and humanitarian who has lived in the United States for the past 23 years. She became a U.S. citizen in 2011. And in 2007, she founded Chalice of Mercy – a nonprofit organization dedicated…
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After a scandal between Trump, Zelensky, and Vance in the White House, the question arises: What should Ukraine do in this situation? The Ukrainian army is currently one of the strongest in the world and the strongest in Europe. We…
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In the 33 years since Ukraine gained independence, its economy has not become market-based or free. Political and business elites have preserved the post-Soviet structure of capital and employment. Ukraine is very poorly integrated into the regional and global division…
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Institute for Cultivating a New Political Elite is Yana Matviychuk’s initiative. Over more than 30 years of independence, Ukrainians have been unable to remove Soviet-era politicians from power. We continue to witness a cycle where individuals raised within the Soviet…
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Reforms in Ukraine’s economy should be implemented immediately! Due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine is in an extremely difficult position. Three years of war have drained the economy. For survival, Ukraine needs to implement reforms, but this is challenging. As…
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