The post-Soviet oligarchy and how it shaped national state politics | 30 Years of Freedom, p.2
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Demolishing monuments not enough to destroy post-Soviet nostalgia, but property rights help | 30 Years of Freedom, p.1
How strongly were Communists supported in post-Soviet countries after the fall of the USSR? Do the populations of…
On historical unity in a prison of nations: Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance Head strikes back at Putin
For decades, Vladimir Putin has been working diligently on his international image. He believes it is not enough…
Discover Belarus, “the country of nine million hostages,” with Belarusian writer Andrei Khadanovich
Contents What Belarusians fear Nature of Belarusian protests Belarusian diaspora and international knowledge about Belarus National spirit and…
Liberal nationalism is the cure Ukraine needs to treat its post-colonial scars – Mykola Riabchuk
Mykola Riabchuk is one of Ukraine’s most published essayists. He is the president of the Ukrainian PEN-center and…
Vasyl Vyshyvany: the Habsburg prince who chose Ukraine
The great Habsburg of Ukrainian history was born on February 10, 1895 on the island of Lošinj (present-day…
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and Donbas
Contents History weaponized Building a new generation Regional or Russian identity? Read more: History weaponized Just as heavily…
Internet troll confession: “We provoke a new level of aggression in our victims”
Have you ever imagined what an internet troll looks like? We met one in a Kyiv coffee house.…
NGO Institute for Security Policy, Austrian Ministry of Defense, and Valdai-Club: Case study on Russian influence in Central Europe
Contents Abstract Introduction The funding of the Institute for Security Policy Events and expert pool of the ISP…
The myth of “historically Russian Crimea”: colonialism, deconstructed
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut…
Ukraine in review: the biggest stories of 2020
2020 was a hard year for nearly the entire world: the COVID-19 pandemic and the multiple ensuing crises…
I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2
Contents Communication with the outside world "Their guys" were also in prison Murder in the cell Death sentence…
I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1
Summer of 2014. At that time I worked as the deputy chief of the Luhansk Regional State Hospital…
Volodymyr Horbulin: Seven steps to defeat Russia in the wars of the future
Contents Step 1. Ukraine’s military and political leadership must realize that modern warfare is very different from the…
Memory wars and other battles
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…
Crimean Tatars in the crosshairs of Russia’s war on Muslims
On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably…
Zelenskyy is solving the wrong war
Contents The real or imaginary threat “War in Donbas” Time Space Scope The Hybrid War Time Space Scope…
Wagner in Belarus: Ukrainian journalists cry treason as high officials suspected of blowing MID special op
On 29 July reports came from Belarus that the country’s secret service KGB arrested 33 Russian mercenaries from…
East-West electoral divide is a myth, Ukrainian voting patterns since 2006 show
Texty.org.ua conventionally divided all the parties that participated in the parliamentary elections from 2006 throughout 2019 into three…
How Alyaksandr Lukashenka stole the Belarus presidential election
More and more countries are declaring the 9 August 2020 elections in Belarus invalid, the latest of them…