The war in Syria has been ongoing for over nine years. The war in eastern Ukraine has entered its seventh year. The two wars are incomparable. Still, they have features in common — particularly Russia’s crucial role. This role and...
The Hetmanate & the Oriental Orthodox Church Relations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church date back many centuries. In 1656, the land of the Cossacks was visited by Antiochian Patriarch Macarius and...
The PACE Committee recently approved a draft resolution proposing a change in the Council’s Charter so that its members, even if their credentials are contested or revised, cannot be deprived of their voting rights, as well as the right...
Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to launch an investigation into the organizers of the Russian PMCs and to seek...
Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service) published a list of 206 non-staff servicemen of the GRU (Russian Armed Forces’ Main...
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...
Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not as well, especially in a world where many military tasks are outsourced and where there are some tasks states do not...
Read more on PMC Wagner: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas Ukraine names over 150 mercenaries from “Putin’s private army” fighting in Ukraine and Syria PMC Wagner’s special task force...
The Damascus suburb of Ghouta has developed into a rebel stronghold preventing the regime, Iran, and Russia from taking full control of the “Damascus belt.” Ghouta is the last area remaining outside regime control within Damascus and...
A statue identical to the one to Russian mercenaries in Syria which surfaced in January has now popped up in Luhansk, the capital of the unrecognized “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LNR”) in the east-Ukrainian...
“The poor are deprived of resources, consumption, social relations and connections. Creating and reproducing the relevant collective social ideas and behavioral practices, they are prone to paternalism, a convenient object of...
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