Hromadske International. The Sunday Show - Ukraine in 2014: The Best of The Sunday Show

The best bits of Sunday Show on Hromadske International 2014:
Hanna Hopko, a long-time Ukrainian activist took part in these protests and took center stage as she called for reforms in Ukraine's notoriously corrupt government.
On the one-year anniversary of the Maidan protests, Hromadske International co-hosts Ian Bateson and Nataliya Gumenyuk sat down with Nayyem and Hopko to hear their thoughts about what has- and hasn't- changed since the Maidan protests began in Ukraine.
The deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko's administration, Dmytro Shymkiv, talked with Hromadske International about how to prevent the reform process from becoming a game of political infighting and what Ukraine needs to build a more European system of governance.
Special guests include a professor of history at Yale University, the world's most renowned expert on eastern Europe.
The hope is that Ukraine's parliamentary election will help get the country back on track politically so that Ukraine begin a series of much needed reforms, said Andrew Wilson, a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Wilson
recently wrote a book on recent events in Ukraine, "The Ukraine Crisis: What it means for the West."
Ukrainian soldiers take Hromadske's film crew on a tour of their dugouts at the front lines in the Donbas region, where the bulk of recent fighting has been concentrated. In the past two weeks, these soldiers with the 128th Mechanized Infantry Brigade said they've seen an increase in shelling from the separatists in their area.
Michael Bociurkiw, spokesperson for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine.
Mission to bring bodies of Ukrainian soldiers from the separatists' held areas.
Lyubov Mykhailova, the founder of the art center "Izolatsiia, a Platform for Cultural Initiatives," and Nataliya Udovenko, a volunteer with the volunteer organization, Vostok SOS joined Hromadske International's Sunday Show to speak about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine's eastern regions.
Hromadske's art team sat down for an interview with Ukrainian illustrator Serhiy Maidukov, whose work has been published in Esquire Ukraine, The Boston Globe, The Architectural Review and other publications. Maidukov is originally from the Donetsk region and has followed recent political events in Ukraine very closely.
Micheal Weiss, Editor-in-Chief of the Interpreter and co-author of the report, "The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money".
Andreas Umland, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, told that Far Right in Ukraine aren't a big threat.
In the heart of Kyiv, a traditional Christmas Market opened to Kyiv residents and visitors. In the centre of it, is a 24-meter 80-year old evergreen tree presented to the City of Kyiv by the government of Ivano-Frankivsk. The Christmas mood has returned to Kyiv after a year of protests, turbulence and conflict.
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Well done, Ian & Natalka - and everyone at The Sunday Show! Please turn this great weekly program into a daily one - the world needs quality, grass-roots English-language programming that is created in Ukraine. Best wishes for 2015!

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great show to open the happenings in Ukraine to the rest of the world ,with english language ,this now is the way forward with social media ,its our biggest communication tool now against dictators like Putin .so more shows like this please .