On 16 May 2017, Ukrainian lawmakers banned the St.George’s ribbon, a controversial emblem of the Second World War used in Russia which many Ukrainians see as a symbol of Russian aggression. The black-and-orange striped ribbon is a...
History of the “Immortal regiment” In 2012, Sergei Kolotovkin, Sergei Lapenkov, and Igor Dmitriev, Russian journalists from the TV-2 channel in Tomsk, gave birth to the initiative. The idea was to have regular Russian citizens...
The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its time boundaries and accentuates the Soviet-German military conflict of 1941-1945. The start of the war, 1939, when Germany and the USSR invaded...
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...
