Journalists of Zaborona have received a document that reveals an important turn on Sheremet’s murder case. — This investigation was originally published on zaborona.com By Kateryna Sergatskova, Leonid Ragozin, Roman Stepanovych, Samuil Proskuryakov. In August 2016, a citizen went to the police. She said that her acquaintance Maksym Zotov personally confessed to her in the murder of the journalist.

Zaborona reports on how household medical waste can be dangerous and what to do with it By Hanna Belovolchenko This article was posted originally on Zaborona.com While people in other countries are developing special programs for the collection of medical waste, the Ukrainian government advises its citizens to place their medicine and syringes in a plastic bag and throw it in the rubbish. Furthermore, Ukraine does…

On 3 September, the Independent Media Council published its assessment of Zaborona’s article “Neo-Nazi links of a Facebook fact-checker exposed”. The IMC concluded that Zaborona, in its article, had breached three principles of the Code of Journalistic Ethics. That is, Articles 8, 9 and 10, pointing out respectively that headlines…

When the pandemic hit in March, Ukraine’s migrant workers were forced to return home. Here’s how some of them are adapting to their new reality. — By Alyona Vyshnytska and Yuliana Skibitskaya of Zaborona for Summer of Solidarity According to official Ukrainian statistics, at least two million migrant workers have returned to the country as a result of border closures caused by the pandemic. In April, Ukraine’s prime minister Denys Shmyhal had promised that new jobs…

By Samuel Proskuryakov Since the war in Afghanistan, Belarus has not participated on a large scale in any military conflicts. In Donbass, Belarusians became the third largest national group of fighters after Ukrainians and Russians. According to Belarusian law, both pro-Ukrainian volunteer fighters and Belarusians fighting on the side of…

By Svitlana Oslavska for zaborona.com Until 2014, journalists liked to call Luhansk the “Far East of Ukraine.” Now it is the capital of the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic”, but, despite the significant pro-Russian sentiments in the city, Ukrainian culture has been developing there. Exclusively for Zaborona, journalist Svitlana Oslavska recounts…

Four years ago, on 20 July, a car exploded in Kyiv with Ukrainian/Belarusian journalist Pavlo Sheremet. He died almost exactly one minute after the explosion. Since then it has been unclear who ordered his murder and who carried it out. Over the last four years, law enforcement agencies claimed to…

Ukraine is one of the most popular countries in the world for eco-fertilization and one of the few countries where it is not forbidden to edit the genetic code. Often these two procedures are done together. Some scientists believe that editing DNA is a good thing, while others worry that…

Statement of the Zaborona editorial team: The article below caused a heated discussion in Ukrainian society and a keen reaction from the StopFake organization. We have analyzed and collected open source facts that testify to the warm relationship between StopFake employees and Ukrainian far-right white supremacists. At Zaborona, we believe…