The government of Iceland supported the resolution that officially recognized the artificial man-made famine Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) of 1932-1933 as a genocide against Ukrainians, Foreign Minister of Iceland...
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...
A year ago, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo issued its Crimea Declaration which referred to the Welles Declaration in 1940 regarding the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states and reaffirmed “the bedrock international principle...
US leaders like their EU counterparts since Vladimir Putin invaded and then annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 have repeatedly declared that their countries will never recognize the incorporation of Crimea by the Russian Federation...
The Russian occupiers in Crimea are increasingly targeting the wives and children of Crimean Tatar activists in an attempt to get at the parents via their family members, Zair Smedlyaev, one of their number says, yet another indication of...
Three US senators, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Rob Portman, have called for Washington to promulgate a policy of “the non-recognition” of Moscow’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and to model it on...
Seventy-five years ago today, the Soviet Union began to occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, act the West never recognized as legitimate but that lasted until 1991. Despite the distance in time from those events, Lithuanian President...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
