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"The stories of a common glorified past are not a recent invention. Especially in times of historical change, they help to raise the international prestige of a state and strengthen existing [...]

"Euro 2020 is barely a week old, and it’s already clear that Russia and Ukraine airing their dirty laundry in public won’t be the only time politics and football collide during the tournament."

Crimea is drying up, and it has everything to do with political arm-wrestling between Russia and Ukraine. Almost seven years after the seizure of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the region is [...]

When Ukrainian President Zelenskiy announced that he would seek Mikhail Saakashvili’s appointment as deputy Prime Minister, commentators were split. For some Zelenskiy was displaying a serious [...]

December editorial. When discussing Russian politics, it is usually only a matter of time before the conversation shifts to ‘propaganda’, ‘fake news’ and ‘disinformation’. From flat out denials [...]

Agnieszka Widlaszewska ponders over why the Russian government has remained relatively silent with regards to the ongoing protests in Belarus.

Pavlo Cherchatyi on how Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014 became a catalyst for a uniting Ukrainian national identity.

When Volodymyr Zelensky won the Presidential election, one of his key promises was to end the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Upon his unconventional methods and a more moderate stance than [...]

– On May 15th, Ukraine responded to Moscow’s ban on the sale and transportation of Ukrainian produce by introducing economic sanctions on certain Russian goods. The list of sanctioned goods [...]

– On April 7th, governor of Kherson Oblast Andriy Hordeyev resigned following allegations that he had been involved in the murder of anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handziuk. Handziuk’s [...]