The meaning of the conflict in Ukraine’s government
The conflict between Arsen Avakov and Mikhail Saakashvili, which has turned out to be the main event in the…
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Russia’s destruction of the Donbas
The Donetsk industrial basin has died. That is the main result of the Russian occupation of the industrial…
Putin, Crimea, and the Crimean Tatars
The image of the burly man who strides arrogantly down the street with complete confidence in his own…
Doing Putin’s work in Germany
I have reasons consider the statements made by Gernot Erler as political corruption. Gernot Erler, Germany's special coordinator…
Political violence and the Yanukovych factor
What the Yanukovych regime really brought into the political and public life of our country is the culture…
Putin, Stalin, and the West
It took Vladimir Putin more than two weeks to acknowledge the fact that the Russian passenger plane had…
Russia’s policy of genocide
The decision by the Ukrainian Parliament to recognize the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944 as genocide is not…
Victor Serge again triumphs over Arthur Koestler
Two images of Stalin’s Great Terror have long competed in the West and even in some former communist…
The last year of Putin’s Russia
Russia's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov stated at the parliamentary hearings in the Federation Council that in 2017 Russia…
Putin and Assad are twin brothers
Bashar al-Assad flew in to see Vladimir Putin. The meeting of the dictators was conducted in a warm…
Putin’s New York fraud
Putin's visit to the US triggered a flurry of predictions. Some predicted Putin and Obama would at least find consensus on…
The Donbas ghetto
Before traveling to the occupied regions of the Donbas it is necessary to realize one unpleasant reality: it…
Ukrainians and Syrians are victims of Putin’s paranoia
Russian and US officials are now discussing Syria and not Ukraine. This is logical because the situation in…
Putin’s gas pipelines and Ukraine
On December 1, 2014, during his visit to Türkiye, Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly announced the suspension of…
Torture and confessions in Russia
The charges that the head of Russia's Investigative Committee Aleksandr Bastrykin has brought against the Prime Minister of…
Will there be a third Maidan in Ukraine?
I hear the phrase "this is the beginning of a third Maidan" each time something tragic happens in…
Rebellion and the state
What we are seeing in Ukraine today, unfortunately, is nothing new. This is what happened after all successful…
Russian justice: Sentsov and Vasilyeva
Like any invader Vladimir Putin is afraid of retaliation. He is afraid of the resistance of a population…
Here’s why the Baltics need a wall on the Russian border
After Russia jailed Estonian security official Eston Kovher, Estonia expressed an intention to fence off the Russian border.…
Independence Day — a day of hope in Ukraine
On Independence Day it is very easy to get lost in banalities. Especially when the day is celebrated…