Zaborona (Заборона) is an indie Kyiv-based media outlet launched in 2018.

Our journalists go to places others won't go. We cover issues that many do not find in the press. We report stories politicians don't want reported. And we stay at it. We understand crises don't just end when the news cycle ends. Often things get worse precisely because no-one is watching.

We expose abuses of power, rights, and betrayals of the public trust. We use the moral force of our research and investigative journalism to spur reform by highlighting wrongdoing.

At Zaborona – the Ukrainian word for taboo, - we believe should be no taboo on stories that matter.

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