Author: Danyiil Burdelnyi, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University In March 2022, the Russian Federation committed atrocities in Bucha that became a horrifying symbol of Russia’s impunity and the failure of the United Nations international security system — specifically the UN Security Council. The Security Council was entrusted with the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, and was granted special powers to that end in the area of peaceful dispute resolution and the taking of measures in response to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace, and a…

The contest was held as part of the international initiative #UnRussiaUN, which advocates for stripping the Russian Federation of its illegally occupied seat in the United Nations and the UN Security Council.

In Kyiv, finalists of the first all-Ukrainian student essay competition met as part of the contest academic essays “Can Russia Be Expelled from the UN?”, which the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation runs jointly with the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The competition is part of the #UnRussiaUN initiative, designed to engage young researchers in the search for international legal mechanisms to limit the aggressor state’s influence within the United Nations system.

On June 9, we invite you to a presentation and discussion of a major study on Russian disinformation narratives in the Czech media landscape, conducted by the Texty.org.ua team with the support of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

Today, the United Nations officially releases the Secretary-General’s report on conflict-related sexual violence. For the first time, the Russian Federation has been included in the list of offending parties. This decision was not the result of a single day or a single statement. Behind it lie years of systematic work by Ukrainian diplomats, human rights defenders, international partners, and everyone who consistently documented Russia’s crimes and pursued international accountability.

On May 25, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine hosted the grand opening of the exhibition “PATH OF HEROES. In Memory of Symon Petliura.” This project, created with the support of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation, is significant for restoring the integrity of Ukrainian historical memory — as we wrote earlier, for the first time since independence, visitors in Ukraine can see in person the belongings of Symon Petliura, Supreme Commander of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, details of the uniforms of prominent figures of the Ukrainian liberation movement Yevhen Konovalets and Andr…

The city of Odense hosted the third meeting as part of the “Koreni ta Kryla: A History That Unites” (Roots and Wings: A History That Unites) project, implemented by the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation. Over three days, teachers from Ukrainian schools in Denmark and Sweden worked with methodologies for teaching Ukrainian history, culture, and language, and discussed how to support children who today are forced to live between two countries, languages, and cultural environments.

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN Andriy Melnyk and Chief Consultant of the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ihor Kharchenko held a meeting in New York following a UN Security Council session, as part of the implementation of the Memorandum between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Pylyp Orlyk Foundation.

The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv hosted the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference “Invisible Trauma: National Practice and International Experience in Recovery.” Among the invited guests was Rostyslav Prokopjuk, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in Prague, who delivered a speech and presented his musical-poetic confession “Coffee Is Drunk by the Living.”