The American political expert Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks of the need to “transform Ukraine into Finland.” In his understanding this means military assistance to Ukraine as well as its “Finlandization” —...
On the April 4, I read an article titled “Spies from the reading room.” It described how during the last year at least 5 foreign researchers who were working in archives were deported from Russia. The formal reason...
For most of the 20th century, the Russians lived under the iron grip of an authoritarian Marxist-Leninist form of Soviet communism, ideologically opposed to western capitalism. Anti-fascism became a crucial component of this ideology since...
Until recently, 28 October was celebrated in Ukraine as the “Day of liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders.” On the round date of 70 years of this date in 2014, Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory proposes to...
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...
