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How do you overcome the negative emotions that get to you every day?

Optimism, altruism, and slight madness: the director of KHPG, Yevhen Zakharov, shares how to protect human rights during the war without burnout.

A Vision of Victory

Only a free society of responsible citizens in partnership with a robust democratic state can overcome a totalitarian empire that is many times stronger in terms of resources.

The 80th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

80 years ago, on May 18, 1944, in dark predawn hours, the National Tragedy of Crimea had begun. The uniformed soldiers of Soviet KGB troops knocked at the doors of Crimean Tatars houses...

At a crossroads

We will manage to survive only if our resistance to this sinister Russian gloom remains nationwide. Each of us, tens of millions of Ukrainian citizens, wherever we are, must feel and understand that our victory is impossible without active and selfless personal participation in this struggle.

A Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group successful action in 1991

A rare human rights story in which all sides won.

EU Unity and Defending Freedom in Ukraine

Europe’s problem, aside from limp defenses, is reflected in its institutionalized and bureaucratized universalism, which obscures the principles of liberty under a thick blanket of rational-legal proceduralism.

Václav Havel and Ukraine

“We are rallied by the values that Václav Havel starkly outlined: love of freedom, independence, commitment to democracy, and rejection of authoritarianism”: reflections on the significance of Havel’s legacy for today’s Ukraine.

Learn to look. Arkady Davarov — with the parable of the blind

We do not know how to look — perhaps this is the root of many troubles! Usually, we look in such a way as to see what we need or want.

In an atmosphere of evil. Arkady Davarov — switching fields of energy

The social atmosphere is invisible and surrounds us as the air we breathe. And just like air, not only it supports life, but it could also poison it.

The cross of Abel and the cross of Cain are different crosses

Compassionate Europeans need to realize that by taking Russians out of responsibility, they are actually doing them a disservice. Because the crime of the Russian state in Ukraine, not understood as a sin and not brought out of the soul through repentance, will inevitably lead to an even worse sin.

Russia has already greatly surpassed the Nazi Third Reich by insidiously launching missile and bomb attacks on Ukraine

Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Viktor Kolisnyk: ‘Russia was on a par with Nazi criminals and even surpassed them in cynicism, meanness and insidiousness.’

Optimism, altruism, and mild insanity

We tested several groups of Ukrainian and Russian human rights defenders with professional psychologists from Kharkiv University twenty years ago and confirmed that our hypothesis was correct.