We don’t want to eliminate May 9; it will always be a day of remembrance and a moment to celebrate Victory Day over Nazism. The only thing that we’d like to do is move official celebrations and events to May 8. We have absolutely no...
Moscow has been abuzz in “Victory Day” fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the ubiquitous orange and black striped St. George Ribbon, a symbol previously associated with patriotic veterans and war heroes...
Over the past two years, many have written that the propaganda cult in Russia surrounding Victory Day is a profound desecration of the memory of those killed and maimed in the horrific Second World War. It’s hard to imagine a...
May is a month for commemorations. Today, May 18, is the 71st anniversary of the deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people from the Crimea Peninsula during World War II. This mass deportation, ordered by Soviet leader Josef Stalin who...
This week all over the world people and nations are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. For those who suffered the most, it’s an especially bittersweet time to reflect on loss as well as triumph and...
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...
