Central/Eastern Europe

Why did Mariupol happen?

I am absolutely convinced that many thoughtful readers have asked themselves why it happened that Mariupol has been under siege since the beginning of this war. And why can’t the Ukrainian military do anything to […]

Central/Eastern Europe

Give a humanitarian corridor for the wounded in Mariupol!

Medics at a field hospital located in the underground premises of the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol in Donbas are appealing to all international human rights organisations for a humanitarian […]

Central/Eastern Europe

“We are from Ukraine!”: a special edition of the national newspaper was published

How the war against the Russian occupiers united Ukrainians? How the whole world supports Ukraine, and who helps the most Ukrainian refugees? How do people of creative professions become military or unite in volunteer centres? […]

Central/Eastern Europe

The diary of a survivor in Kyiv. April 8

“Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel are the places where the Russians committed war crimes. The first impressions from the Ukrainian soldiers”. I am sure that the pictures of people shot just on the sidewalks, shot in the […]

Moscow
Central/Eastern Europe

The Russian Liberal Bias

Do not expect grassroots change to happen in Russia. A popular phrase spoken only half-jokingly by the residents of Moscow goes like this, “Moscow ends, and Russia begins at the Sadovoye Koltso”. Sadovoye Koltso, or […]