Our Mission
The main task of the foundation is to counter Russian propaganda, which, along with the decisions of the Russian government, bears responsibility for the war in Ukraine. Due to the fact that Russia’s aggression and war against Ukraine have brought numerous humanitarian problems, we consider it our duty to help the Ukrainian people. These humanitarian issues in Ukraine are actually the result of toothless opposition to Russian propaganda and unpreparedness for Russian aggression.
Our mission now is to physically support the civil population for people to survive this bloody war by providing them with urgently needed basic things – medicines, food, renovation of their damaged homes, schools, and shelters. As well as to secure the future of the post-war Ukraine where each citizen is a war victim and does need psychological rehabilitation
Our history
The Foundation was created in 2018 to counter Russian propaganda that had poisoned everything, including the United States elections. And later, this propaganda led to a full-scale war unleashed by Russia against an independent Ukraine.
The first name of the Foundation was "Stop Inform Terror of Russia", but this year we decided to change the name. To work efficiently, it has been planned to create a Board of Trustees of ex-Presidents and leaders of six countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. All these countries border Russia and suffer from the harmful influence of Russian propaganda.
Only the Leader of Belarus (1991 – 1994), Prof. Stanislav Shushkevich, confirmed joining the Board of Trustees in writing. The President of Ukraine (1991 – 1994), Leonid Kravchuk, gave his verbal consent and awaited the formal registration of the Foundation. Unfortunately, the Leader of Belarus, Stanislav Shushkevich, 88, and the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, 88, passed away in 2022 due to illnesses related to Covid-19. During 2018, consultations were also held with the former Leaders of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
The COVID pandemic had disrupted the Foundation's plans and made in-person meetings impossible. After the pandemic, the Russian war against Ukraine began, and the Foundation's tasks expanded to include humanitarian projects in Ukraine, where large-scale assistance is required for victims of Russian aggression, who are all over the country as there are no safe sites in Ukraine and Russia shells the whole territory.
To implement such projects, the Foundation found a reliable partner in Ukraine and launched extensive fundraising campaigns in the United States. In 2022, the Head of the Foundation negotiated and reached a cooperation agreement with the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and Yale University.
Leadership
The Founder and Head of the Foundation, Herman Obuhov (www.herman-obuhov.com), is a former political prisoner of the USSR, granted political asylum in absentia in 1985 by the U.S. Congress.
Herman Obuhov has more than three hundred publications. He is the author of five books and has conducted numerous interviews on several TV channels in Ukraine and the United States. He has 50 years of experience resisting the Soviet and then Russian regimes and propaganda. In the early 2000s, Herman Obuhov was involved in humanitarian activities as a Head of the "Open the World to Children" Charitable Foundation, which helped over a thousand orphans obtain higher education.
Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Herman Obuhov has constantly visited Ukraine, knowing the situation firsthand, and actively participates in charitable activities and social events to stop Russian perfidious aggression and propaganda that puts in danger not just bleeding Ukraine but the whole democratic world.
Contact us by email: stopinformterror@gmail.com