In the days following Russia’s full-fledged attack on Ukraine, one European news channel repeatedly aired a cutscene preceding the news about the war. In it, a girl forced to flee from shelling and bombing told reporters: “I...
This is the second part of Yuriy’s story. On the battle for Kyiv read: Ukrainian theology professor turned sniper tells how to hunt for Russian invaders What is the Russian political regime built on? At the beginning of the...
It is an ancient observation that people who live in port cities or in portions of a country bordering others are often very different than those who live in the interior of the country, often simultaneously more aware of their own...
Many of the problems Russians now face are rooted in their firmly-held misconceptions about the nature of Russia and Russian national identity. To help them out, Dmitry Olshansky, a columnist for “Komsomolskaya pravda,”...
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up their ethnic identities in favor of a political identity as ‘Rossiyane‘ often suggest that they are doing no more than...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
