The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the rules for the operation of the not-yet-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. According to European law, this gas...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed genuinely perplexed by the very possibility of making public his telephone conversation with Donald Trump. While answering questions from Ukrainian journalists, Zelenskyy even said that he had assumed that only...
Vitaly Serdyuk, the lawyer of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said that Yanukovych is preparing to return to Ukraine. It is interesting that Yanukovych sets his lawyers to political tasks rather than legal ones: to bring...
Despite the obvious and oft-expressed desire of the presidents of France and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to hold a meeting of leaders of the countries of the so-called “Normandy format” in September, the...
In a wide-ranging and even programmatic interview with the After Empire portal, Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov describes three often unacknowledged truths about Ukraine and Ukrainians that not only now play but will continue to...
When Vladimir Putin became the new president of Russia in 2000, he was opposed by a strong institutional opposition in the newly elected State Duma, which included old Soviet nomenklatura officials from the Fatherland-All Russia party, the...
Putin succeeded in securing alleged MH17 accomplice Tsemakh, discrediting the Ukrainian position in the West, and continuing the “constructive” negotiation process. The liberation of Ukrainian citizens, many of whom have remained...
Europeans can breathe easy for the first time in several years: Italy, one of the leading economies of the continent, will no longer be a nightmare of government officials and financiers, it will not provoke crises and strife and undermine...
The Church of Greece became the first after the Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly. At first glance, this is not the most important recent news – especially against the background of what is...
Today’s 40-year-olds have lost the chance to see a truly sovereign and successful Ukraine. If they are lucky, the generation of those who are now 10 years old will see it. It depends on how their parents will vote. We build a state...
– 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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