Trusting Your Heart to Algorithms: How AI Is Changing Modern Dating and What Could Go Wrong
Where Empathy Comes From and Where It Disappears, or Why Do People Get Tired of Empathizing and Helping?

Memory studies

Juliusz Dutkiewicz: Ethnography of Pokuttia and Hutsulshchyna in the Photographs of the 19th Century Ukrainian Photographer

Recent stories

A Noble but Bureaucratized Cause: How and Why Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine is in a Gray Area. An Investigation by Zaborona
Russian Reconnaissance Drones Are Firing Missiles at Ukrainian Airfields. Are We Able to Protect the F-16s We Are Waiting For?

Special projects

Why Allowing Multiple Citizenship in Ukraine Will Be a Win-win for Ukrainians And Others

War

Is the End of the Hot Phase of the War Possible by the End of 2024? Yes, but with Compromises That Ukrainians Are Hardly Ready For
To Lie on the Green Grass and Go Hiking: What Azovstal Defenders Dream Of in Russian Captivity
Cancellation of the ‘Limitedly Fit’ Status Is Necessary, but Will Create Risks at the Front: What a Military Lawyer and a Combat Doctor Say
What the Ukrainian Armed Forces Will Get, How It Will Change the War, and Why Packages Alone Are Not Enough: The Most Detailed Analysis of the Consequences of U.S. Aid

Photo news of the week

Kursk operation, alarming signals of nature and good deeds in Gaza: top photo news of the week

Reporting

“He Had All the Best in Him”. How a Territorial Community in Ivano-Frankivsk Region Preserves the Memory of Its Fallen Heroes. A Report by Zaborona

#Colonialism

Five Main Myths about Crimea. Where They Came from and What to Do about It
How Would Ukraine Liberate Crimea? What Will Happen to Collaborators? Will the Language Law Work on the Peninsula? Zaborona Compiled FAQ on the De-occupation of Crimea
Can Crimea Be Considered a Russian Colony? We Found Four Reasons for This
“The Annexation of Crimea Is Needed to Protect Russians.” We’ve Heard It Before, the Nazis Used a Similar Scheme to “Protect the Germans” in Four Countries. We Debunk Seven More Myths about Crimea (And Show Which Totalitarian States Did the Same in the 20th Century)
Trusting Your Heart to Algorithms: How AI Is Changing Modern Dating and What Could Go Wrong
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Recent stories

Where Empathy Comes From and Where It Disappears, or Why Do People Get Tired of Empathizing and Helping?
Why Allowing Multiple Citizenship in Ukraine Will Be a Win-win for Ukrainians And Others
Juliusz Dutkiewicz: Ethnography of Pokuttia and Hutsulshchyna in the Photographs of the 19th Century Ukrainian Photographer

#Colonialism

Five Main Myths about Crimea. Where They Came from and What to Do about It
How Would Ukraine Liberate Crimea? What Will Happen to Collaborators? Will the Language Law Work on the Peninsula? Zaborona Compiled FAQ on the De-occupation of Crimea
Can Crimea Be Considered a Russian Colony? We Found Four Reasons for This
A Cure for Colonial Trauma: What Is Decolonization and What Do Ukrainians Have to Do With It?

Photo news of the week

Kursk operation, alarming signals of nature and good deeds in Gaza: top photo news of the week
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War

Russian Reconnaissance Drones Are Firing Missiles at Ukrainian Airfields. Are We Able to Protect the F-16s We Are Waiting For?
Ukrainian refugees in Europe: Have they come to take? We analyse harmful stereotypes in detail
Criminals, butchers, and minions: Bezuhla criticizes Syrskyi and his team. Do you have déjà vu too?
To Lie on the Green Grass and Go Hiking: What Azovstal Defenders Dream Of in Russian Captivity

Memory studies

Fortress on an Island. How Private Companies Are Mining Sand around the Historical Monument of the Austro-Hungarian Period
Fortress on an Island. How Private Companies Are Mining Sand around the Historical Monument of the Austro-Hungarian Period
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Photography

“I Didn’t Think I’d Ever Shoot an Armed Conflict until the War Started On My Country’s Border.” Zaborona Talked To Polish Photojournalists Who Have Been Working in Ukraine Almost Constantly for Two Years Now
“War Is Not an Excuse for Censorship.” Photographer Maxim Dondyuk Spent Two Weeks in the Trenches in Donbas, Despite Shelling and Drone Strikes. Zaborona Spoke to Him
Bernd and Hilla Becher, a couple who turned coal mines and water towers into art. Art explainer in a stories
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“My Mom Gave Me Just a Few Spoons: ‘Feed Her, This Girl Is Dying of Hunger’.” 79 Years Ago, the USSR Began the Deportation of Crimean Tatars. Here Is the Story of a Family Sent to the Hungry Steppe