Vitaly Portnikov: Putin is politically dead, but he’s dragging Ukraine & the world into the past
On December 7, 2021, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with the Wall Street Journal about Ukraine,…
Servants of the People or “Little Russian valets”. Zelenskyy party on course for the “Russian world”
But, although President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the question, he did not know the answer. Because his answer to…
Piontkovsky: Ukraine is being prepared for disguised surrender to Russia
Q: Perhaps one of the most significant international events of the autumn was the statement of the French…
Vitaly Portnikov: Ukraine is slowly disappearing from the geopolitical chessboard
In the recent past, Ukraine has never had to express such a demand. Any telephone conversations between the…
Vitaly Portnikov: The Game of Thrones is just beginning
Why? Because everyone would be discussing the final episode of the most popular TV series in the world,…
Portnykov: Crimea is a symbol of international impotence
Five years ago, the meeting of the UN Security Council, during which Vitaliy Churkin, Russia’s Permanent Representative to…
Ukraine and Poland. What next?
Vasyl Stus in his "Camp Notebook," written in 1982, noted: "I am enthralled by Polish victories of the…
Who wins and who loses with the new Polish law on national memory
On January 31, the Polish Senate (upper chamber of the Polish parliament) considered a new version of the…
Why giving media time to architects of the Yanukovych regime is dangerous
On January 22, ZIK TV aired a controversial interview with Andriy Portnov, a key member of the Yanukovych…
Ukrainian IT brain drain: where IT professionals go, and why they leave
The majority of IT specialists who have left Ukraine currently live in Poland (26%), Germany (19%), the USA…
Many Ukrainians remain “Soviet people” decades after collapse of the USSR. How to eliminate “Bolshevism of the mind”?
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of…
Ukraine considers alternatives to ATO
Discussions are taking place in Ukraine on cancelling ATO (Antiterrorist Operation), forming a new command structure for the…
Russia is getting rid of inconvenient witnesses for The Hague — Mark Feigin
In his interview with Espresso journalist Antin Borkovskyi, Mark Feigin, one of the Russian lawyers who had defended…
Russians dream of “Syrian scenario” for Ukraine — Russian analyst
Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky, who has been forced to leave Russia, discussed possible scenarios for a "Syrian…