Inside Russia’s repression of Ukraine’s churches
Vladimir Putin celebrated Palm Sunday by murdering over 30 civilians in Sumy with two missiles laced with shrapnel to maximize…
Play Putin at his own game by ‘nightmaring’ his world order
There’s a delicious Russian verb that derives from the criminal underworld: “koshmarit,” literally “to nightmare someone.” It usually denotes how…
Besieged Odesa is still caught in a conflict of identities
Older citizens have identified with Russia all their lives – and Russian is still commonly spoken everywhere. But young Odesans are now using more Ukrainian as a symbol of resistance
A deadly blame game
Alan Philps reveals how many western journalists, duped by Stalinist propaganda, rushed to blame the Nazis for the Soviet atrocity
Letter from Ukraine
Lviv My favourite hotels in Lviv were all booked out over the weekend. The world’s justice elite were in…
A Ukrainian’s notebook
Palm Sunday in Perugia. Umbrians were scuttling around with twigs and leaves, but I was in town to celebrate another…
Weapons of mass indoctrination
Peter Pomeranzev describes the refinement of thought-control techniques over the past century – and the worldwide competition to employ them
History endlessly repeated
Perhaps the secret to understanding Russian history lies in its grammar: it lacks a pluperfect tense. In Latin, English and…
We want lies
On 27 November 1960 African and Indian diplomats visiting the UN in New York opened their mail to find a…
Punks vs. Putin
What makes for meaningful political protest? In regimes where ideology was taken seriously (such as the Soviet Union or America…
