Baltic brutality A dark image of the Baltic states was (again), painted in pro-Kremlin disinformation last week. Firstly, the Latvian Army was accused of shooting civilians in 1991, during Latvia’s transition to independence from the...
A new study by the Ukraine Crisis Media Center says that between July1, 2014, and December 31, 1917, a third of all news stories on the three major Moscow television stations was devoted to Ukraine and that “more than 90 percent” of...
A major reason that Moscow has to struggle to find symmetrical responses to anything other countries do is because it lacks many of the institutions that they have but that Russia does not, ranging from media environments open to almost...
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools is “’an act of ethnocide’ of the ethnic Russian people in Ukraine, thus denouncing in another what Moscow is...
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism, or “anti-Zionism” as it was called, Yevgeny Ikhlov says. And like the earlier one, Putin’s...
The last pro-Ukrainian rally in Donetsk was violently broken up by so-called “pro-Russia militants” wielding baseball bats, iron bars and knives on 28 April 2014. After combined Russian-separatist troops wrestled a part of...
An email dump of a “DNR Ministry of information” employee, Tatyana Egorova, reveals that Ukrainian leading TV channels collaborated with the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”), one of the two Russian-backed...
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of the Russian Empire and Civil War,” Galia Ackerman says; and “no one denies that thousands of Ukrainians, especially in Western...
One of the greatest advantages Ukrainians have relative to Russians is the strength of horizontal ties in Ukrainian society, ties that allow them to cooperate with each other in ways that Russians rarely can, Kateryna Shchetkina says. But...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
