Ukrainian reports on the Russian intentions to declare the so-called “Kherson people’s republic” circulate from the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On 16 April, The Ukrainian...
We broke through. The day before yesterday, in the morning we made it through from Bucha to Irpin. And in the afternoon from Irpin to Kyiv. We all got through and survived. It feels like being reborn. Let me tell you upfront, I am sharing...
The State Duma – the lower chamber of the Russian parliament – has voted to pass a motion calling upon Russian President Vladimir Putin to consider the need to recognize the “Donetsk People’s Republic and the...
On 26 January 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) started open hearings on admissibility in the inter-state case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia. The case pertains to the events in...
On 21 December, Nariman Ametov, a Crimean Tatar activist and the father of three minor children, reported on the FSB’s torture with electric shocks on the Facebook of “They put some cloths under my ears. I felt they...
Russian army top brass in Donbas Skibitskyi said that those 600-800 Russian regulars hold command positions in the so-called 1st and 2nd army corps of the Russian occupation forces in the occupied parts of Ukraine’s respective...
Every year, Russian media mark the Mriya Hotel’s award of the World Travel Awards with publications along the lines of “the world has recognized Russian Crimea,” calling it a breakthrough in “Crimean...
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it had started long before Russia established itself as a state. The nature of this conflict, though, has remained unchanged. Since...
On May 10, 1944, Lavrentiy Beria, the notorious chief of the NKVD (Soviet security and secret police), recommended to Stalin that the Crimean Tatars should be deported for their “traitorous actions and behaviour” and...
During the last six years, Ukraine’s cinematography has finally started to develop. While one of the reasons for this has been the support it has received from the state, others include a demand from Ukrainian citizens to watch...
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...
