“Russia… is a country which strives to build a fair society based foremost on moral values,” said Vladimir Putin seven years ago. Six years later he directly compared Western Europe and Russia in terms of morals...
The internet portal Slon.ru has published an op-ed by Oleg Kashin listing the sides that lost in the Russian-instigated war in Donbas. The people of Donbas: the apolitical and anti-Kyiv ones, the ones that dreamed to follow in...
From the fall of 2013 until today, events in Ukraine have been the main topic of Russian politics and mass media. First, there was the Ukrainian choice between the European Union and the Russian led Customs Union. Then, the...
Nikolay Dzys-Voynarovskiy High School of Economics experts on the closure of McDonalds: “Reasonable economics policies are not being discussed” Another three McDonald’s restaurants were closed in Russia today:...
Kyivstar, a Ukrainian mobile service provider, was forced to suspend services in Crimea after a group of gunmen entered the company’s office in Simferopol. Kyivstar announced this on Facebook: “They asked Kyivstar...
By Vera Kichanova The crisis in Ukraine has soured attitudes toward Russians abroad. This animosity was not felt merely by the energy and finance CEOs banned from entering the EU nor by just politicians who cannot visit the US....
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
