Across Minsk and Belarus supporters of the opposition are hanging up and waving white-red-white flags – very different to the official state flag, which is red and green. Why does Belarus have TWO flags? The current state flag was...
Today is the day of the presidential election in my native Belarus. It is the sixth election in Belarusian history. Only the 1994 election was deemed free and fair, and votes in 2001, 2006, 2010, and 2015 were marred by electoral fraud and...
Of the interesting debate organized by LibMod – Zentrum Liberale Moderne’s project “Ukraine Verstehen” (eng. Understanding Ukraine) around the petition submitted to the Bundestag to acknowledge the mass starvation of rural...
You might think that your activities on the internet are meaningless in the grand scheme of things and that you are just an anonymous individual taking advantage of the various benefits available on the internet. Your activities are a part...
On the morning of July 9, 2020, the governor of Khabarovsk Krai, Sergei Furgal, was arrested by FSB officers on the doorstep of his home in Khabarovsk. He was flown to Moscow and charged with the murder of several businessmen and the...
As international flights don’t seem to be easily available for Ukrainians soon, the chances to spend this summer in Kyiv remain pretty high. Rather than being upset about it try to take it as the occasion to finally discover the city....
A “westsplaining” term was coined yesterday in the Ukrainian segment of Twitter. This refers to a discussion of a thread written yesterday by a head of a Kyiv office of one of the foreign foundations, who compared the position...
Those who were active in Ukrainian diaspora communities in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were keenly aware of the plight of dissidents in post-Stalinist Soviet Ukraine. Ukrainians in the diaspora often took measures in defense of these...
History knows providential people. History remembers people, who correspond with their very nature to what a nation and a culture needs at a given point in time in history. The recent movie about Joan of Arc (“Jeanne”, dir. by Bruno...
On 18 May 1944, Stalin deported all the indigenous population of Crimea, more than 230,000 Crimean Tatars, from their native peninsula to Central Asia. More than 100,000 died along the way. Read more: Deportation, genocide, and Russia’s...
The real or imaginary threat President Zelenskyy has repeatedly reiterated his electoral promise to end the war. The president is, of course, talking about “the war in Donbas.” In contrast, his predecessor stressed that Ukraine was...
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