Category: 8. Opinion

The protests that filled central Kyiv following the passage of a bill that weakens Ukraine’s key anti-corruption institutions are not a sign of weakness for the embattled country. It is instead a…

Francine Villa thought she’d found refuge. As a Black woman disillusioned with American racism and police violence, she moved to Russia in 2019 and began building a life she believed would be safer,…

For more than three years, Russia’s banking system has defied gravity. Crippled by Western sanctions, cut off from global financial markets and deprived of foreign capital, it has operated in a…

The majority of Russian citizens — especially young people — make no secret that being sent to the Ukrainian front is not part of their plans. 

Yet how can it be possible that the army has no…

Today’s Russia is not merely violating international law — it is openly dismantling its very architecture. Nearly 10,000 individuals have brought cases against the Kremlin and Europe’s top human…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg met with Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on June 21. The contested Belarusian leader marked the visit by releasing fourteen prisoners, mostly…

Being tired of empty talks with President Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had secured a deal with NATO to purchase weapons destined for Ukraine. Trump signaled a potential end to…