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“Mania of stability above all.” Western politicians support Ukraine only to extent to prevent russia’s destruction – Herzinger
05.08.2023
The vladimir putin regime is ready for peace only on its own terms, so any hopes for any agreements with the russian leader are not just futile, they are dangerous, German expert, journalist and publicist Richard Herzinger said in a comment to ukrinform.net.“The idea that it is possible to run some kind of peace negotiations with putin is both absurd and extremely dangerous. This regime declares every day that it is not ready to hold any negotiations if the West ...Economic risks of confiscation of russian assets are fictitious and are voiced mainly by russia’s supporters – professor at Indiana University
01.08.2023
There are both real and fictitious risks of confiscation and seizure of USD 300 billion of russian assets, which are located mainly in the EU, Japan, Germany, and the US. The most significant risk is russia’s counterclaims in the International Court of Justice, and the trial itself could take many years. The economic risks of confiscation of russian assets are fictitious and are voiced mainly by russia’s supporters, who are numerous around the world, Volodymyr Lugovskyy, a professor of economics ...Ukrainian media call on international organizations not to “confuse” russian propagandists, who take part in russian aggression, with journalists
27.07.2023
Ukrainian journalists and media organizations, members of the Media Movement, call on international organizations not to confuse journalists with propagandists, who are active participants of the russian aggression against Ukraine, imi.org.ua reported.UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists issued statements calling the recently killed russian citizen Rostislav Zhuravlyov, an employee of the kremlin news agency RIA Novosti, “the 14th journalist who died since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022”, and called for an immediate investigation into his death.We, the ...Ombudsman to UN: Trying to equate Ukraine with russia is a harm in itself
01.07.2023
On June 27, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report “Detentions of civilians in the context of the armed attack by the russian Federation against Ukraine”, in which russia and Ukraine are named as parties violating international humanitarian law, Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, writes.In my opinion, the described violations by the Ukrainian side regarding the detention of civilians are questionable and require confirmation. For example, OHCHR writes ...Peyote-induced spell cast. Ever since russian full-scale invasion, we’ve been subject to esteemed experts calling two sides to negotiating table
04.06.2023
Are you a venerated scholar in the field of international relations? Do you feel compelled to publish an article about russia’s war on Ukraine? To bring your decades of experience to bear to help end the suffering? A smart, contrarian piece, perhaps? One which cuts through the utopian misconceptions of the “whatever-it-takes” crowd? A necessary reality-check that both acknowledges the inevitability of a negotiated settlement and reminds the world of your wisdom and indispensability?, Neil Abrams, PhD in Political Science from the University ...moscow, which remains in the backyards of civilization, still burns with hatred and envy toward the center – Portnikov
28.05.2023
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
23.05.2023
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
18.05.2023
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?
30.03.2023
The term “business as usual” coined or at least popularized by Winston Churchill during the First World War, once meant to maintain order and a stable functioning economy in a country at war. But many decades later, it came to be known as completely the opposite. Today, it is about doing business while disregarding the 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 ...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
06.03.2023
“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 ...
