Komsomolskaya Pravda is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper that was founded in 1925. Its name is in reference to the official Soviet newspaper Pravda 'Truth'.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate was an Orthodox church in Ukraine, in existence from 1992 to 2018. Its patriarchal cathedral was St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv.
Serhiy Dmytrovych Prytula is a Ukrainian public and political figure, who gained his popularity as a TV presenter and actor. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine he has founded Prytula Charity Foundation and focused on fundraising money for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. His most successful fundraising campaign was People's Bayraktar, which resulted in donations to purchase Baykar Bayraktar TB2 UAVs and also a reconnaissance satellite for Ukraine.
UMH group is an international multimedia group. It controls a portfolio of over 50 brands in Internet, radio and press markets, covering news, politics, business, sports, fashion, celebrity and TV. The portfolio includes over a dozen owned and licensed media brands, chiefly Forbes Ukraine and Vogue Ukraine.
Nina Geria is a Ukrainian strength athlete who is foremost known as the winner of the World's Strongest Lady competition held in 2011.
Altogether, 108 civilian protesters and 13 police officers were killed in Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, which was the culmination of the Euromaidan protest movement. The deaths occurred in January and February 2014; most of them on 20 February, when police snipers fired on anti-government activists in Kyiv. The slain activists are known in Ukraine as the Heavenly Hundred or Heavenly Company. By June 2016, 55 people had been charged in relation to the deaths of protesters, including 29 former members of the Berkut special police force, ten titushky or loyalists of the former government, and ten former government officials.
Boryslav Yukhymovych Bereza is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a former spokesperson for Right Sector (2014). In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection as an independent candidate in a single-seat constituency.
The demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine started during the fall of the Soviet Union and continued to a small extent throughout the 1990s, mostly in some western Ukrainian towns, though by 2013 most Lenin statues in Ukraine remained standing. During Euromaidan in 2013–2014, the destruction of statues of Lenin become a widespread phenomenon and became popularly known in Ukraine as Leninopad, a pun literally translated as "Leninfall", with the coinage of "-пад" being akin to English words suffixed with "fall" as in "waterfall", "snowfall", etc.
The Opposition Platform – For Life was a pro-Russian and Eurosceptic political party in Ukraine.
Metropolitan Epiphaniusof Kyiv and All Ukraine is the primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), holding the title of Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine.
Party of Shariy is a banned political party in Ukraine founded by political blogger Anatoly Shariy. Its official proclaimed ideology is libertarianism.
Iryna Petrivna Fedyshyn is a Ukrainian singer and songwriter.
Smart Politics is an inter-factional parliamentary group in the Verkhovna Rada, created by former parliamentary speaker Dmytro Razumkov on 8 November 2021. The group currently includes 25 deputies, 19 from Servant of the People, two from Batkivshchyna and four independents.
Strana.ua is a Ukrainian online newspaper launched on 16 February 2016. It was founded by journalist Igor Guzhva, and is one of the most popular Ukrainian online media, being one of the top 5 most visited online newspapers in Ukraine.
Alla Petrivna Kudlai is a Ukrainian singer. In 1987 she was awarded Merited Artist of Ukraine, and in 1997, People's Artist of Ukraine
Mіkhaіl Mikhaylavich Zhyznyewski, also known as Mykhailo Mykhailovych Zhyznevskyi, was a Belarusian Euromaidan activist, journalist, and a member of UNA-UNSO. He died in a confrontation on Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv, Ukraine in January 2014, during the Euromaidan protests. Posthumously, he was the first foreigner to be awarded Hero of Ukraine, Ukraine's highest award.
Derussification in Ukraine is a process of removing Russian influence from the post-Soviet country of Ukraine. This derussification started after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and intensified with the demolition of monuments to Lenin during Euromaidan in 2014 and the further systemic process of decommunization in Ukraine. The Russo-Ukrainian War gave a strong impetus to the process. Along with decommunization, derussification has been described as one of the components of a larger process of decolonization in Ukraine.
Yana Ihorivna Lanova, known by her stage names Eva Bushmina and Layah, is a Ukrainian singer, actress, television presenter and a former member of girl group Nu Virgos.
The Easter truce was a proposed ceasefire between Russian and Ukrainian forces during 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was to take place during Christian Easter – from 21 to 25 April 2022, however, this plan was never materialized as Russia refused it, despite the fact that Ukraine agreed to it. The proposal was also supported by the European Union.
Igor Anatolyevich Guzhva is a Ukrainian journalist, commentator, television host, and editor-in-chief of the website Strana.ua. From 2013 until July 29, 2015, he was the owner and leader of the media holding Multimedia Invest Group. Since October 1, 2018, he has been a political refugee in the European Union (Austria).
