“Successor” – a new novel on Russian espionage in USA focuses on Russo-Ukrainian war
American writer, former senior CIA operative with almost thirty years of experience Michael R. Davidson and journalist, analyst,…
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How Eurovision became the Kremlin’s mousetrap
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine’s authorities barred Russia’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest from entering Ukraine. The…
Kyiv Noir. Will these headlines ever end?
The photo above says it all. Soviet era façades. The blonde in an expensive ski jacket. The bloodied…
Is military aggression at the heart of Eurovision’s values? Open letter in protest of EBU statement
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine's security service banned entry to Russia's Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova over her performance…
Putin’s world is fast approaching
Two days before Donald J. Trump became president of the United States, Politico’s Paul Taylor wrote a prescient…
A war of recovery: Ukraine’s other front line
SLOVIANSK Welcome to Sloviansk, Ania says, greeting us warmly before adding, You will not like it. I immediately…
Russian propaganda exploits German feeling guilt for attacking USSR – Yuriy Durkot
Since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, Ukrainian journalist, publicist and translator Yuriy Durkot has been developing Ukrainian-German…
Ukrainian psychiatric hospitals: engraved in my eyeballs
There are some images that remain engraved in your eyeballs for the rest of your life. For me…
An agreement with Putin is an agreement with the devil – Ukraine’s vice-PM on European integration
It has been mostly bad news for Ukraine lately. Thousands of civilians found themselves caught between frost and…
The Kremlin resumes its war against Ukraine, how should the EU react? | Marieluise Beck, German Bundestag
The arms never rested in Donbas. But now the war escalated again. The city of Avdiivka is bombarded…
This is how online hate-rhetoric mutates our values
Facebook already has been proven to create an online “collective will,” which led to physical actions like demonstrations…
Switching off Gazprom – best help for Aleppo
"If a free trade treaty with the USA brings hundreds of thousands of Germans onto the street but…
Perfection as a weapon of hybrid warfare
The explosive news broke in the US at the end of last week – the CIA announced that…
A tribute to Andrei Sakharov, champion of Freedom
Twenty-seven years ago, on December 14, 1989, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died of a heart attack at the age…
Robert van Voren: A new history of disasters, or how the world will look in 2019
Imagine 2019. President Trump has been around for three years, bogged down by court cases in connection with…
Armed invasions don’t have “golden middles,” blaming victims encourages evil
When people in the West talk about Ukraine, they usually say "probably, the truth lies somewhere in the…
How Sweden’s support for reforms can help Ukraine on the way to the EU
*** In a world increasingly perceived to be marked by new uncertainties, the close partnership between Sweden and…
Poland and Ukraine haven’t yet lost their chance
Both Poland and Ukraine are at a very important moment of their histories. Poland is on the proper…
Robert van Voren: Third anniversary of Maidan: I have lost my hopes, but I don’t give up
It is clear the honeymoon days are over. Three years after the start of Maidan, it is evident…
Trump’s victory: how scandal gave way to conspiracy theories
The victory of the Republican Party’s candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential elections did not exactly surprise me,…