On 26 February 2022, Russia blocked a UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on Ukraine condemning the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, despite having an obvious conflict of interests in the area. The Helsinki Final Act of 1975...
Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on 24 February almost immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Serhiy Kyslytsia, Ukraine’s permanent representative to the UN, raised an important question of how legally Russia...
The United Nations was set up to prevent World War III, Elena Galkina writes. But with wars raging in Ukraine and Syria, it is clear that the UN is not coping very well with its chief mission; and the reason it isn’t is simple: the...
Two weeks ago, 67 countries said they favored limiting the veto powers of permanent members of the UN Security Council; now, more than 100 do, perhaps the best indication of growing anger in the international community about how Vladimir...
The United Nations was set up to prevent World War III, Elena Galkina writes. But with wars raging in Ukraine and Syria, it is clear that the UN is not coping very well with its chief mission; and the reason it isn’t is simple: the...
Sixty-seven countries, including two permanent members of the UN Security Council (Britain and France), now support the idea that Russia should lose its veto over measures designed to investigate its involvement in genocide and mass...
President Petro Poroshenko said in a Voice of America interview on Friday that Russia should lose its veto power in the UN Security Council because of its aggressive actions against Ukraine, arguing that the world would be a safer place if...
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the skies of eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. From the moment this tragedy occurred, and some would say even before it,...
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...
