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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

September 11, 2023 • by Peter Nohrnberg

I come to bury Prigozhin, not to praise him, nor dwell upon his three medals “For Merit to the Fatherland” awarded by the Kremlin....

Europe & Central Asia

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Correspondence with Vladimir Kara-Murza

June 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alex Strelnikov

Just before his sentencing, journalists Anastasia Shteinert and Alex Strelnikov sent questions to Kara-Murza through the Russian prison postal system...

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Europe & Central Asia

The Voice of Ukraine

“Break your heavy chains and water with the tyrants’ blood the freedom you have gained”

May 10, 2023 • by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

For many in Ukraine, the war is not simply about the territory: it is about freedom and democracy, about the memory of identity eradication perpetrated by Russia....

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

May 9, 2023 • by Igor Torbakov

"Losing" Ukraine to an external enemy or to a domestic secessionist movement would be tantamount to the dismemberment of the national body....

Europe & Central Asia

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

In places regained by the Ukrainian army, police units look for saboteurs and collaborators, search for abandoned weapons and clear roads

May 9, 2023 • by Paweł Pieniążek

The village was occupied by the Russian army in March and was under their control until recently. ...

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

Democracy

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

April 26, 2023 • by Paul Josephson

The concept of preempting an enemy’s nuclear weapons that was a central point of Soviet military thought has been reiterated by President Vladimir Putin....

Democracy

Is Europe’s Democracy in Crisis?

Europe’s democracy is in a good place, but technological changes are challenging it

April 10, 2023 • by Filip Kostelka

Democracy is currently not in crisis and, in fact, we live in one of its best times....

Democracy

The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End

On Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy and the function of political theater

March 28, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, James Miller and Jessica Pisano

Zelenskyy’s approach to political leadership has been focused on creating conditions that allow people to self-mobilize and self-govern....

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War

The Lesson of War We Don’t Learn

Each one is more horrible than the last—and yet, each time, we fall into line. What could persuade us to say no?

March 22, 2023 • by Claire Potter

It’s a horrible irony that those who answer the call for patriotic sacrifice are, in a sense, the best among us....

Europe & Central Asia

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

March 20, 2023 • by Maria Stepanova

The war, begun by Russia, had deprived life of all its connective tissue: nothing happening outside Ukraine held any meaning or had any weight....

Europe & Central Asia

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

March 1, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

What is happening now in the country is the reappearance and radicalization of a centuries-old resentment of the West, in the context of the war in Ukraine....

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

Europe & Central Asia

The Art of Misunderstanding

On how to preserve one’s dignity while keeping the attention of western institutions

January 12, 2023 • by Kateryna Botanova

The idea that the purpose of culture is reconciliation confronts Ukrainian cultural activists with a dilemma: how to preserve one’s dignity while keeping the attention of western institutions? ...

Russia

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Correspondence with Vladimir Kara-Murza

The Voice of Ukraine

“Break your heavy chains and water with the tyrants’ blood the freedom you have gained”

The Kremlin’s Nationalist Utopia

Russo-Ukrainian “unity” plays an inordinately huge role in Putin’s historical imagination

Ukraine Is Reclaiming Land and Tracking Down Collaborators

In places regained by the Ukrainian army, police units look for saboteurs and collaborators, search for abandoned weapons and clear roads

Putin’s Atom

An excerpt from Paul Josephson’s Nuclear Russia

Is Europe’s Democracy in Crisis?

Europe’s democracy is in a good place, but technological changes are challenging it

The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End

On Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy and the function of political theater

The Lesson of War We Don’t Learn

Each one is more horrible than the last—and yet, each time, we fall into line. What could persuade us to say no?

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

The Art of Misunderstanding

On how to preserve one’s dignity while keeping the attention of western institutions

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