Why Ukraine loves Boris
The Mayor of Ukrainian Black Sea port city Odesa announced last week that he was making British Prime Minister Boris Johnson an honorary citizen. This was not the first time…
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Putin’s poisonous anti-Western ideology relies heavily on projection
For the past century at least, the Kremlin leadership has failed to understand the West. Though it has at times succeeded in manipulating the West and conducting espionage operations against…
Investing in Ukraine’s brains is vital for the country’s post-war prosperity
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With all eyes on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin targets domestic dissidents
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny recently went missing for a few hours. Poisoned and jailed on trumped-up charges, Navalny has spent the last 18 months in prison, occasionally passing…
Goodwill gestures and de-Nazification: Decoding Putin’s Ukraine War lexicon
Ever since Russian troops first crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24, the Kremlin has employed characteristically euphemistic language in order to downplay the criminal nature of the unfolding invasion.…
Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian genocide is proceeding in plain view
The sheer destructiveness of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion has stunned international audiences. Many have been particularly perplexed by the methodical annihilation of predominantly Russian-speaking Ukrainian towns and cities such as…
Fear of confronting Putin will lead to Russian victory in Ukraine
The magnificent resistance of the Ukrainian people has drawn the admiration of the whole world but we must have no illusions. Without a clear shift in policy by the US,…
Odesa rejects Russia: Putin’s Ukraine War turns old allies into bitter enemies
Vladimir Putin has long claimed to be the champion of pro-Russian Ukrainians. However, it is now painfully apparent that the Ukrainian regions most closely associated with pro-Kremlin sentiment have also…
Ukraine edges closer to EU dream despite horrors of Putin’s war
During Ukraine’s iconic early twenty-first century Orange Revolution, a large banner erected at the tent city in downtown Kyiv proclaimed proudly: “We are carrying out a Euro-renovation of our state.…
What Ukrainians need most
Balloons and birthday cake may perhaps be the last thing one expects when they imagine a humanitarian donation center for Ukrainian refugees. But at the Help Ukraine Center in Lublin,…