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,…
09/12/2021
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…
27/02/2020
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…
12/09/2019
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…
24/05/2019
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,…
21/05/2019
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…
12/03/2019
Ukraine and Poland. What next?
Vasyl Stus in his “Camp Notebook,” written in 1982, noted: “I am enthralled by Polish victories of the…
09/02/2018
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…
06/02/2018
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…
28/01/2018
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…
12/12/2017
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…
24/11/2017
Ukraine considers alternatives to ATO
Discussions are taking place in Ukraine on cancelling ATO (Antiterrorist Operation), forming a new command structure for the…
21/06/2017
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…
18/03/2017
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…
12/01/2017
Crimea, and why Ukraine could not support Israel
The Ukrainian representative at the UN Security Council voted against Israeli settlements in Jerusalem, which led to controversy…
29/12/2016
How Putin’s Russia is becoming Stalin’s USSR
When the Kursk submarine sank, Vladimir Putin said a prophetic phrase that probably could be applied to the…
15/12/2016
Why is the “European CNN” becoming the voice of the Kremlin?
Recently, about 50 journalists of the TV channel Euronews held a warning strike against the decision of the…
11/12/2016
How a Trump victory would affect the economy of Ukraine
If the markets are wrong and Trump wins tomorrow, a “black Wednesday” awaits us. The stock exchange prices will…
09/11/2016
German reporter writes “Crimea is Russia”
The Moscow bureau chief of Deutsche Welle, Juri Rescheto, has become the subject of a media scandal after…
20/08/2016
Why Russia manufactured Crimean “terrorism”. Five versions
On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to comment on the latest developments in Crimea. He explained…
12/08/2016