During this period Minkin organized art protests and performances in front of the Ministry of Foreign Offers of Ukraine, educational and cultural departments, security police offices, detention centres, and jails in Luhansk, Kyiv, and some other Ukrainian cities.

[9] With support of Igor Blaževič Minkin met influential activists from Eastern Partnership countries and later expanded his work to Central Asia.

Based on the study, Yuliya Lyubych and Yaroslav Minkin created script of the educational video about participation and democracy in Ukrainian context.

[10] Since 2019, Minkin is leading a youth empowerment program for decolonization and post-war development Young Diversity Ambassadors with the aim to empower a new generation of independent young intersectional activists in Ukraine, their informal groups and emerging organisations, helping them to find their role in the post-war recovery and development, and to bring social changes into society.

Local artists and flashmobers in masks, with toy weapons in their hands and in strange hats took over several trams, decorated the salons with paintings and drove along the route.

Together with human rights defenders Oleksandra Dvoretska and Konstantin Reutski he initiated a global campaign "Yellow card to Ukrainian militia".

The aim of the campaign was to inform and empower youth to fight against human rights violations in Ukrainian law enforcement agencies (before creation of National Police of Ukraine).

The action was supported by southends of students from more than thirty educational institutions in Kyiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, Simferopol, Ternopil, Rivne, Sevastopol, Yalta, Mariupol, and Kremenchuk.

During the last eight years, Yaroslav Minkin has been working as a trainer and facilitator on human rights, gender equality and non-discrimination, participatory democracy, cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue.

He is working as a trainer, facilitator and lecturer at trainings, workshops, seminars and forums for activists, educators and innovators, artists and cultural managers, IDPs and ex- combatants (ATO veterans), local politicians, police officers, and policy makers etc.

[18] From 2018 to 2019 Minkin held the position of coordinator of the working group “People-to-People Contacts” of the National Ukrainian Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Societies Forum for the presentation of Ukraine at the international level.

Yaroslav Minkin together with other Youth organization "STAN" members and Peace Corps volunteer Kyle Logan created a guidebook, that shows the charms of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, from the point of view of 12 non-locals.

The mapping exercises involved IDPs and ATO veterans, representatives of ethnic and religious groups in the city, and youth and older people.

Mapping initiatives included analyses of non-governmental organizations, art spaces, projects, and artists that are active in the independent cultural sector and free scene field.