Who is trolling?
Over the past months, the number of fake 'concerned Russian citizens' or Western 'commentators' have quickly increased. Clearly,…
Putin – may I be sanctioned?
On March 20, 2014, the world woke up to the shocking news that in his infinite wisdom Russia’s…
Comparing with Hitler
For many years I wondered how my uncle must have felt in 1938-1939, when dark clouds were gathering…
Frontline against authoritarianism
Feb. 16, 2014 A recent cover of a main Dutch newspaper said it all: on top of a…
IGNORANCE IN THE WEST
Feb. 23, 2014 Watching the news programs in The Netherlands during a short stopover I am amazed at…
ARE “FOREIGN AGENTS” HEROES?
Feb. 3, 2014 Lately I wake up in the middle of the night with a complexity of thoughts…
Wage a media-war in Russian!
Since the crisis in Ukraine took the shape of a fundamental conflict between a growing part of the…
Putin’s point of no return
In the mid-1980s, one of my associates in Amsterdam wrote an article on the continued occupation of the…
Maidan: a determination to win, not to be defeated, and to be willing to go to the very end
Protestors periodically shoot fireworks at Berkut Robert van Voren. February 20, 2014 Tonight the atmosphere at Maidan was…
The real heroes in Ukraine
The heroes are the young generation in Ukraine, who started and fuelled this revolution and who made the impossible…
Yanukovych victim of Soviet psychiatric abuse?
That it would ever come to the point that I would have to come to the defense of…
Rebirth of a nation
What continues to amaze me is the lack of understanding among the general public and even politicians in…