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Moscow’s disinformation operation far beyond mere lying and obfuscation
Most Western discussions about countering Russian disinformation have focused exclusively on unmasking the ever-growing number of lies and…
Ukrainian book on “little things in life” seeks to reach the English reader
Girls Talk Don’t come any closer Don’t come any nearer My vision of you Can’t come any clearer…
Putin’s Crimean miscalculation
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande’s refusal to have a trilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin…
History in a bottle: unique documents belonging to UPA family found in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
A piece of family history was discovered recently in the village of Cherniyiv near Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine). A…
Documents show French far-right’s involvement in war in Donbas
This is the largest leak of documents from the separatist pro-Russian “government” of Donetsk. It contains thousands of…
Putin’s war games on Ukrainian border aimed at Western leaders above all, analysts say
In January 1991, after Soviet soldiers killed 14 Lithuanians in Vilnius, a remarkable political cartoon appeared: It showed…
Educating monsters: Russia’s new minister of education
The recent appointment of Russia’s new minister of education might interest our readers if only because the dismissed…
Another death of a Russian opposition journalist: Alexander Shchetinin remembered by Kirillova
Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at…
A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism
During the Cold War, westerners dealing with the Soviet Union grew frustrated at the automatic Soviet response to…
‘The Chechen War isn’t over’
Moscow, Grozny and many in the West like to say that the Chechen war is a matter of…
Three more danger signs regarding Putin’s intentions in Ukraine
Whether Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the near future or simply continue to…
The Russian army mobilizes in all directions
In the last few months, Russia conducted a round of intensive exercises “rehearsing” offensive warfare. A development that…
Top-10 space achievements of independent Ukraine
Ukraine can rightly be regarded as an space power, despite the fact that, since its independence from the…
Post-Soviet Russian empire entering ‘second phase’ of disintegration, Lukyanenko says
By attacking Ukraine, Moscow has set in train the second phase of the disintegration of the post-Soviet Russian…
Stalinist times are returning in Russian-occupied Crimea, Poroshenko says
The incarceration of Ilmi Umerov, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, in a psychiatric hospital…
Two years after the Ilovaisk tragedy, guilty not found
August 29 is a day of commemoration of the victims of the Ilovaisk tragedy in Ukraine. Two years…
Ilovaisk and the Russian invasion
When Putin loses he turn from a “legitimist” to an ordinary local thug. The anniversary of the Ilovaisk…
War, illness, and losing home. The story of unconditional love of one Donetsk couple
The war in eastern Ukraine created a new reality for hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine. Around…
Ukrainian civil society responded more readily to Putin’s invasion than the government
Interview with Ihor Koziy, military expert at the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and Valentyn Badrak, Director of the…
Ukraine today a continuation of Ukrainian Republic of 1918-1920, Verkhovna Rada speaker says
Andrey Parubiy, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is among those who say that Ukraine today should be…