5 December, 2024
30 years ago, on December 5, 1994, the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, a crucial international agreement that promised security and stability in Europe.At the end of the Cold War, Ukraine became independent in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. At that time, the country held the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, inherited from the Soviet Union. In order to strengthen global security and limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons, negotiations began to persuade Ukraine to give up these weapons.It was in this context that Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum with the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia in December 1994, at a conference organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in E...
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1 December, 2024
Today, Ukraine celebrates the 33rd anniversary of its historic self-determination referendum held on December 1, 1991. On that day, an overwhelming 92% of voters, representing 84% of the electorate, supported independence. This moment marked a turning point in the country's history after decades of Soviet domination. A few months earlier, on August 24, 1991, Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, had adopted the Declaration of Independence Act. This document proclaimed the creation of a sovereign and democratic Ukrainian state and called for a referendum to seek direct approval from the electorate. The results of the December 1 vote were unequivocal, with majorities in favor of independence in every region of Ukraine, including Donetsk and Luhansk, where 84% voted for independen...
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23 November, 2024
Today, as every fourth Saturday of November, we commemorate the Holodomor, one of the darkest tragedies in human history. This famine, deliberately orchestrated by the Soviet regime between 1932 and 1933, claimed the lives of 6 million Ukrainians, victims of a policy of annihilation aimed at destroying their national identity. This genocide, still unknown to many, remains a deep wound in Ukraine’s collective memory.The famine was implemented through forced collectivization and repressive laws such as the "Law of the Ears," which punished the theft of grain with deportation or the death penalty, while Ukrainian wheat continued to be exported in large quantities to fill the coffers of the USSR and feed other regions, leaving local populations to starve. These measures were part of a d...
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