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moscow, which remains in the backyards of civilization, still burns with hatred and envy toward the center – Portnikov
2023-05-28
In Soviet times, a Kyiv publishing house presented a book “Ilyich over the Map of Ukraine,” with the Bolshevik leader on the cover – the same one who, according to vladimir putin, created Ukraine – leaning over a map of a neighboring country. Lenin, of course, created nothing. Like putin, he robbed. The Bolshevik coup led to devastation, the collapse of industry, famine, and civil war. But Lenin needed bread. Ukrainian bread. So he bent over the map of Ukraine ...
russian journalists become increasingly sour about international reaction to russian aggression. Journalist Masha Gessen quits PEN America, blames Ukrainians
2023-05-23
Recently, russian journalist Masha Gessen resigned from PEN America due to the cancellation of an event with the participation of russian writers at The World Voices Festival. It was canceled because Ukrainian writers Artem Chekh, Iryna Tsilyk, and Artem Chapeye refused to participate in the festival, which included russians.In an article for The Atlantic, Gessen said that they could understand “the desire to be cruel to russians” and that Ukrainians were “blackmailing” PEN America. Chytomo collected the reactions of Ukrainian writers, ...
Ukrainian victory will be a start of a new era of democratic Europe – Starovoyt
2023-05-18
After many decades of absence on European maps and in the European consciousness, through the destruction, Ukraine appeared there again, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Iryna Starovoyt, writes for zbruc.eu.Paradoxically, how the current existential threat has shown our country to the world as full of presence and existence. Ukrainian resilience in this tense, multi-level war was the key to something else being unleashed across Europe, from north to south. The key to greater interest, urgency, ...
Business as usual, was it ever a thing?
2023-03-30
The term “business as usual”, coined by Winston Churchill during the First World War, was once meant to maintain order and a stable functioning economy of a country at war. But many decades later, it became to be known as completely the opposite. Today, it is about doing business while disregarding a morale-eroding change in the behavior of those you are dealing with, writes Bohuslav Zapravdskyi for uatribune.com.Despite the widespread and quite firm belief among many top politicians and businessmen ...
Stalin lives in millions of russians. russia threw off all vestiges of decency and demonstrated that it will be Stalin’s state for a long time to come – Portnikov
2023-03-06
“Stalin died yesterday” – that was the name of one of the most famous texts of the perestroika era, an article by the publicist Mykhailo Hefter, the title of which was repeatedly quoted by everyone who wanted to understand the essence of social processes in the Soviet Union. When the changes began, it suddenly became obvious that Stalinism was alive, that the official rejection of the leader and the “exposure of the cult of personality” did not at all become ...
China uses russia to wear down the West – Portnikov
2023-03-04
“It doesn’t matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice” – this Chinese proverb became a symbol of the economic reforms carried out in China by the actual founder of modern China, Deng Xiaoping. The former general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China used this simple idea to prove the possibility of a market economy in a socialist country. Deng Xiaoping’s approach – complete control over political life and information, ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on FT to investigate misinformation about alleged arms smuggling
2023-02-16
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on the Financial Times to conduct an editorial investigation into materials that have signs of disinformation in the interests of russia, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko writes.Financial Times February 6, 2023 material: Moldova’s PM calls for more EU help to curb Ukraine war smugglingAt the beginning of the article, it is noted that the now ex-prime minister of Moldova, Natalia Gavrilița, told the Financial Times ...
Bucha and Babyn Yar testify that evil must be destroyed by force – Kuleba
2023-02-16
The crimes committed at different times in Bucha and Babyn Yar show that evil must be destroyed by force, Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, was cited as saying by ukrinform.net.“These were different times, different regimes, different criminals. But the essence of evil, hatred based on nationality, is the same. These places of tragic memory testify that evil must be destroyed by force – the force of weapons, the force of sanctions, the force of a coalition in ...
MFA on 28th anniversary of Budapest Memorandum: Obligations to Ukraine were not fulfilled
2022-12-05
December 5, 2022 marked the 28th anniversary of the signing of the Memorandum on Security Guarantees in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the Budapest Memorandum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said in a statement.Having concluded this document with Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the USA and the russian federation declared their obligations to respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state. France and China provided similar guarantees ...
“Not even political myopia.” Western countries will not be able to sit this one out – Portnikov
2022-11-18
On November 15, when the Polish leadership published a message about the fall of missiles in one of the border villages and the death of two citizens of their country, began one of the most disturbing nights in all the months of russia’s war against Ukraine, writes Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov for graniru.org.For the first time, there was a real danger of a direct confrontation between russia and NATO – and this is a transition to a completely different scale ...