Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group, Igor Eidman says; and once a Kremlin leader demonstrates he is ready to use this technique, the potential hit list...
Kyiv wants its diplomats to promote the independent identity of Ukraine abroad, Delovaya stolitsa reports; but it has generally failed to promote what could be an especially important ally: Ukrainian tourists abroad who need to become...
The UK has had for many years a stable democratic process, with strong institutions. But what happens after a while is that those institutions become themselves resistant to change. They develop and operate on the default setting that...
This war which lasted a week took hundreds of lives of Georgians, Ossetians, and Russians, soldiers and civilians. Hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to leave their homes in South Ossetia and, before that, in Abkhazia. This war...
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to destroy the three settlements of the 20th century that the United States took the lead in arranging, settlements whose destruction...
The President is accorded greater executive powers and, as a consequence, assumes additional responsibilities. Unlike in the former system, he has formed the new cabinet of ministers and will preside over it. State...
President Trump has ushered in an era of uncertainty in the Western world. The United States is no longer viewed as a stable and predictable actor, but as a country run by a President whose words and deeds do not always align. Trump has...
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...
Events of the recent years remind us that the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950 was primarily about preventing yet another war on the continent. The founding fathers of today’s EU saw economic integration only as a tool to achieve this...
About the author Ivan Diyak is a corresponding member of the Academy of Mining Sciences, an acting member of the Oil and Gas Academy of Ukraine, an honored Professor Emeritus of the Ivano-Frankivsk Mechanical University of Oil and Gas....
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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