Saskatoon, February 1993| April 26 is the anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster. The most important information agreed on at this stage is that the sixty three kilograms of radioactive material thrust into the atmosphere by the two...
On 17 April 2015, the Basmanny court in Moscow once again refused to dismiss Nadiya Savchenko’s case, refusing to settle an appeal by her lawyers. The 33-year old pilot had been kidnapped on Ukrainian territory in June 2014 and has...
When the commander of battalion Azov, Andrii Biletskyi, commented recently on the reluctance of Ukrainian bureaucrats to fight an open military war against Russia, I knew I had found an example of what psychologists call “betrayal...
Michael A. Newton, a lawyer in international law, has written an affidavit showing how Nadiya Savchenko’s defence can be established through two concepts: 1. the laws and customs of warfare; 2. compliance with recognized human rights...
Imagine a time so filled with anticipation that as the family prepares the house for the evening Christmas meal, arguments among the children are forbidden, and the smallest detail is considered so that all may know that this is no...
“Whatever else I may do or think in the future, I must never pretend that I haven’t seen this.” Malcolm Muggeridge, Winter in Moscow I have undertaken what can only be described as a daunting task, namely, to reflect as a...
De-humanization first, then their destruction can be justified Steve Komarnyckyj explains the title of his lecture by saying the following: “Those politicians, and diplomats who know of what happened in 1933, but choose to avert their...
“Unjust authority is not authority, as an unjust law is not a law.” “Power without authority is tyranny.” – Jacques Maritain In his Testament, written in 1970 in Rome, Patriarch Josyf Slipyi writes about visions he has in which...
By Jeffrey Stephaniuk Television journalist Nastya Stanko posted on Facebook on September 7, 2014 her reflections about an emotional few weeks in Donbas and other parts of Ukraine. “I had been invited to give a presentation in Odesa a...
At the end of August, 2014, Dmytro Yarosh gave an interview for a group of journalists: “Through the experience of front line battles, a new Ukrainian identity is being forged,” stated Yarosh. “From this group of men a new political...
Free independent media is a necessary condition for democracy to function in any country. Censorship, on the other hand, is rampant in all its forms in dictatorships. These definitions may be relevant in a black and white world; in...
