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Russian colonialism
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New US-Ukrainian network to promote awareness of Russian colonialism’s crimes past and present
The US National Endowment for Democracy, Ukrainian journalist Maksym Eristavi, and Kyiv’s independent Zaborona news agency have created…
“Russia, a terrorist country ruled by war criminals”: Full text of Russian decolonization conference resolution
We, the representatives of the indigenous peoples and colonized regions of the Russian Federation, acting on the basis…
Will a Ukraine-Russia reconciliation ever be possible?
Ever since Russia’s plans for a blitzkrieg and a quick occupation of Ukraine have spectacularly failed, the world…
Amplify Ukrainian voices, not Russian ones
[editorial]The tendency to equate the experiences of Ukrainians fleeing from cluster munitions in destroyed cities and supposedly opposition-minded…
The myth of “historically Russian Crimea”: colonialism, deconstructed
[editorial]The widespread narrative of Crimea being “historically Russian” is a classic example of a colonial myth. It inscribes…
Who’s winning on the Ukraine-Russia historical narrative battlefield?
[editorial]Historical narratives determine whether Ukraine is seen as a subject or object of international relations. That’s why they…
Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process
[editorial]This year’s Lviv Security Forum brought together security experts from different countries in order to model the resolution…
Circassians and their fate: introduction into history of nation expelled by Russian Empire from Caucasus
[boxright] Russia’s act of genocide against Circassians lasted more than 150 years, Chukhua says [/boxright] The Circassians are…
Putinism is a genuinely new threat and not simply a revival of earlier ones, Yakovenko says
Putinism represents a new threat to the world, one very different in fundamental ways from those of earlier…
Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has faced before, Yakovenko says
Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years…
Euromaidan did not change the system in Ukraine
Filip Rudnik: In January, Ukraine began celebrating the centennial of its independence. Ceremonies commemorating the Battle of Kruty*…
The worst Russophobes in the world are in the Kremlin, Kornyev says
Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin routinely denounce others as Russophobes, but most of those they target do not…
Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…
Russia has to yield more than Crimea for a chance to become a democracy, Buravlyev says
Many Ukrainians now argue Russia must give Crimea back to Ukraine to have any chance of becoming a…
‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says
The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally…
Putin’s new political technologies keep his antiquated system in place, Shevtsova says
Vladimir Putin is with remarkable success using modern political technologies to keep himself and his increasingly antiquated and…
Wagging the finger: where the West fails to understand Ukraine
I grew up in the West, where few people know much about Ukraine. In the USA—my home country—most…
Russians won’t admit expulsion of Circassians was genocide — but Ukrainians should
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter…
Russian journalist Valeriy Solovey: What Russians don’t like about Ukrainians
Russian historian and journalist Valeriy Solovey gives a tongue-in-cheek account of what motivates Russian dislike of Ukrainians… or…
Crimean history. What you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask
In fact, similar propaganda really did take place at that time. Russia had been rewriting history books centuries…