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17.02.2020PEN Ukraine selected winners in the contest for translation of Stanislav Aseyev’s book into foreign languages
On 10 February PEN Ukraine finalized its call for translators wishing to take part in ...
09.01.2020Statement of the Ukrainian PEN Centre in support of Belarusian writers
Ukrainian writers are concerned about the events unfolding in neighbouring Belarus. There, in the capital ...
26.12.2019PEN Ukraine’s list of best books published in Ukraine in 2019
Last year PEN Ukraine established a new tradition: in the last days of December we ...
24.12.2019PEN Ukraine is awarding two grants for translation of Stanislav Aseyev’s In Isolation into foreign languages
PEN Ukraine in cooperation with the International Renaissance Foundation announces a contest for translation of ...

New Russian law could cut Crimea off from Ukrainian and global Internet
Halya Coynash
Russian-occupied Crimea could find itself totally cut off from the global Internet according to a bill which was adopted in its second reading on 11 April and has every chance of coming into force this year. ... read more
Russia uses ‘terrorism’ charges to silence civic journalists in occupied Crimea
Halya Coynash
Scroll down for addresses of all 23 civic activists and journalists whom Russia arrested on 27 March Three of the victims of Russia’s most ferocious attack on Crimean Tatar activists to date are civic journalists who recorded and circulated information about repression in occupied Crimea. ... read more
Remzi Bekirov, or the repression in occupied Crimea that Russia will use 20-year sentences against journalists to hide
Halya Coynash
Remzi Bekirov, a historian and tour guide by profession, became one of the first Crimean Solidarity civic journalists, reporting on armed searches, ... read more
Who's pressuring freedom of press in Ukraine
By Ukrainian and international law, journalists are allowed to protect the names of their sources unless there’s a justified need for their disclosure. A court in Kyiv seemed to think that there was such a need when they ruled investigative journalist Ivan Verstyuk, ... read more

A Difficult Trade-off: Freedom of Speech and Public Security during the “Hybrid War”
Mykola Riabchuk
The reputable Denmark-based international watchdog Freemuse, which monitors the freedom of artistic expression around the globe, published its 2016 annual report, ... read more
Ukrainian activist and volunteer dies after apparent hate crime attack
Artem Myroshnychenko, a Ukrainian activist and volunteer from Bakhmut (former Artemivsk) in Donetsk oblast died on 5 December of injuries sustained during an attack in the late evening of 29 November. ... read more
Як Україні виростити крила
На це питання неможливо відповідати суто теоретично: виходить сухо й банально. Ніякої сили таке розумування не породить. Тому зайду я з іншого боку та й подам три ілюстрації з мого життя. ... read more
The ‘terrorist threat’ Russia brought to Crimea ; six victims receive huge sentences
“Does it not strike you as strange that in the 23 years Crimea was under Ukrainian rule, there were no ‘extremists’ nor ‘terrorists’, and no ‘acts of terrorism’, ... read more

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