An Intimate Portrait of a Revolution: Conversation with Marci Shore about her new book “The Ukrainian Night”

Published: January 30, 2018   

By Maria Genkin, Razom volunteer

 

On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Razom organized a discussion about the new book ‘The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution’ written by Yale History Professor, Marci Shore.

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Роль українців за кордоном у встановленні успішної України

Published: November 28, 2017   

3-го листопада Разом організували розмову-дискусії на тему “Роль закордонних українців у встановленні незалежної успішної України”. Приміщення ласкаво надали керівники наукового товариства імені Т. Шевченка у Нью-Йорку. На подію прийшло багато цікавих людей, адже в першій частині розмови брав участь сам Святослав Вакарчук. Модерувала розмову з Святославом член ради директорів Разом та член НТШ Оля Яричківська. Нижче подаємо найцікавіші цитати Святослава.

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Engaging and Informing on Capitol Hill

Published: December 16, 2016   

When a group of graduate students attending meetings on Capitol Hill were told that there is a need for more policy-oriented information on Ukraine, they sprung into action. Led by Razom volunteer Mykola Murskyj, a team of writers came together to create the report titled U.S. Policy on Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities. The team expects to release the 100+ page report by the end of February 2017.

 

“Our objective is to engage and inform policymakers about Ukraine so that they build policy that continues to help Ukraine become stronger and more prosperous,” explained Mykola Murskyj.

 

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Getting the Historical Truth with Kipiani in Columbia

Published: December 9, 2016   

Razom hosted a discussion at Columbia University with Vakhtang Kipiani on November 19th at the university student center. Current undergraduate and graduate students joined activists and volunteers for a two-hour discussion about how history affects the future, especially in the time of war and decommunization. Lyuba Shipovich and Dora Chomiak moderated the conversation with Kipiani, who was visiting from Ukraine.

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Razom visits SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont

Published: December 1, 2016   

On a hill in Brattleboro, Vermont, a group of 70 master students speak a language more often heard in the cultural cafes of a progressive metropolis. The language borrows only the big words from the English dictionary that breathe of lofty goals and social revolution. Terms like cross-cultural, advocacy, social change, justice, exchange, political policy, peace and education are the cornerstones of communication at the SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont.

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Razom Think: Monitoring Project OKO

Published: October 3, 2016   

In September 2014, Razom, in collaboration with the Agency of Image of Ukraine, established Project OKO — a public, politically independent project — in order to monitor mentions of Ukraine in the international media. In light of the ongoing war in Ukraine and amid manipulative news campaigns and propaganda disseminated by other actors, the project serves as an important “big picture” reflector of Ukraine’s image in today’s media. continue reading →

The Catastrophic Collapse of Independent Media in Crimea: The Last Two Years and the Road Ahead

Published: April 5, 2016   

Helsinki Commission Briefing on Human Rights Violations in Crimea

Published: December 19, 2015   

On December 11, 2015 VOLYA Institute for Contemporary Law and Society (Ivanna Bilych, Svitlana Krasynska, Bohdan Pechenyak) and Razom for Ukraine with the moderator Orest Deychakiwsky from the U.S. Helsinki Commission together with guest speakers from Ukraine Andrii Klymenko, Богдан Яременко, and Юрій Яценко, held a briefing in the U.S. Congress on human rights violations in Russian occupied Crimea.

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Crimea Human Rights Report to be presented at United Nations and U.S. Congress

Published: November 30, 2015   

New York, NY, November 30, 2015 – In the spring of 2015, an international team of lawyers, with the support and endorsement of the New York University School of Law, prepared a human rights report entitled “Human Rights in Occupied Territory: Case of Crimea,” issued in June 2015 under the auspices of the Ukrainian-American nonprofit organization Razom, Inc. The report analyzes the current human rights situation in Crimea, and provides recommendations on how to address the situation to local and regional governments, international community, civil society and media, and the population of Crimea.

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Resume of the world news on the MH-17 catastrophe

Published: October 14, 2015   

We would like to share a special report completed by our OKO media monitoring team.

 

The subject of Flight MH-17, shot down over Donbas, was widely discussed in the world mass-media several times during the last year. Since July, 2014 until today, the search engine of the OKO project filtered over 13 thousand articles and videos concerning Flight MH-17, the course of investigation and the victims of this tragedy. OKO volunteer-annotators used our informational system to group each article into shorter list of main topics and write short comment about it.

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