One of Vladimir Putin’s greatest advantages has been the willingness of others to accept his definition of what is occurring rather than describe things honestly be it the invasions of Georgia and Ukraine, the Anschluss of Crimea, or the...
It’s all about Oleg Sentsov… “What’s the situation in Ukraine?” – I hear this question quite regularly. A complete answer calls for an analysis and forecast of events that we experience in Ukraine every day, a brief...
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to be held in Russia in 16 days, then when will it? Tata Gutmakher asks, adding that unfortunately it appears the West “doesn’t...
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip to Crimea. Unlike real Russian villages, these were clean and bright and designed to give the impression that the people there...
On 24 January 2017, he Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted resolution #2141, which calls to protect Ukrainian journalists from the aggression of the Russian Federation. It is written by the Ukrainian MP the head of...
“The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov,” a film about the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov who Russia sentenced to 20 years in prison on absurdly fabricated charges, had been selected to be shown at the 67th Berlin...
Multiple filmmakers and cultural actors around the world (including Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina) are mobilizing for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. The latter was arrested in May 2014, a few days after the annexation of the...
An international team of filmmakers has made a documentary about the sham trial of their colleague, Oleg Sentsov, whom Russia in 2015 had sentenced to 20 years in prison on absurdly fabricated charges. Titled “The Trial,” it is...
The famous Hollywood actor and director Johnny Depp has spoken out in support of his colleague, the Ukrainian director and Kremlin’s political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. Thereby Depp joined the global campaign Imprisoned for Art, which...
The escalations in occupied Crimea on 7-8 August, in the course of which Russia has accused Ukraine of staging “terror attacks” and claims that it has foiled a “sabotage group,” have left many questions unanswered...
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...
