Monthly Archives: April 2022

Volodymyr Ishchenko, New Left Review: The Euromaidan was not a rupture in the sense of a social revolution. As my colleague Oleg Zhuravlev and I have written, it shared features with other post-Soviet uprisings and also with those of the … Continue reading →

Welt: Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck hat die Menschen in Deutschland nochmals dazu aufgerufen, Energie zu sparen. „Ich bitte jeden und jede, jetzt schon einen Beitrag zum Energie­sparen zu leisten“, sagte er den Zeitungen der Funke-Mediengruppe (Freitag) vor dem Hintergrund des Ukraine-Krieges. … Continue reading →

Ich stehe auf einem städtischen Friedhof … Um mich herum Hunderte Menschen. In der Mitte neun Särge, mit rotem Batist umhüllt. Militärs halten Reden. Ein General ergreift das Wort … Frauen in Schwarz weinen. Die Menschen schweigen. Nur ein kleines … Continue reading →

It’s the Armeno-Azerbaijani conflict. You have to resolve it in yourself. Are you an Oriental woman or a Western woman? If you are Oriental, don’t divorce your husband; if you are Western, get yourself a lover and don’t see it … Continue reading →

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic: Germany long claimed that it was extending the hand of reconciliation to Russia when in fact it chose to pursue a policy based on greed and naivete. It was not alone in delusion and hypocrisy. … Continue reading →

The Twitter accounts are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.

Guardian: “Before the war, the majority of Ukrainians did not trust the state,” said Venediktova. “There were grounds for this: the other general prosecutors and the way they behaved.” The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general has been dogged by accusations … Continue reading →