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100 intellectuals denounce Ukrainian professor for questioning narrative about war
On April 28, the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda published an open letter signed by more than one hundred scholars of Eastern Europe concerning a recent book by Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian professor based in Canada. The book, The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War, questions much received wisdom about… Continue reading
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“Human nature is not logical” – Interview with Russian writer Viktor Yerofeyev
Viktor Yerofeyev is one of the most prominent contemporary Russian writers. His latest book is “The New Barbarism: Fantasy novel on Russian guilt” East and West: When the war in Ukraine ends, if it ends, will Europe and Russia be able to live side by side peacefully? Or is the conflict between Europe and Russia… Continue reading
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France and Poland simulate nuclear strikes on Russia during exercises
On April 23 and 24, France and Poland simulated nuclear strikes on targets in Russia and in Belarus in joint military exercises. Polish F-16s were tasked with long-range reconnaissance and target designation, including simulated cruise missile strikes with JASSM-ER systems toward high-value objectives in the Saint Petersburg area, while French Dassault Rafale B aircraft—equipped with… Continue reading
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European Peace Project – “We want more peace!”
This year as well, the European Peace Project is taking place. On May 9, participants aim to take the future of Europe into their own hands through a “performative speech act” and to send a signal against the erosion of fundamental European principles such as peace, democracy, freedom, and mutual understanding between peoples. The European… Continue reading
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Ukraine attacks Russian Baltic ports: Playing with Fire?
In the quiet hours of early March 31, residents across Estonia awoke to the piercing wail of emergency alerts on their phones. The EE-ALARM system, Estonia’s national hazard notification app, lit up with warnings of an “air threat” near the borders with Russia. Drones—linked to Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive—had entered Estonian airspace, prompting widespread alerts that… Continue reading
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If Russia Loses: A Scenario
In the bestseller If Russia Wins, the German strategist Carlo Masala presents a stark warning: if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, Europe will face a far more dangerous future. His scenario imagines a weakened NATO, a complacent Europe, and eventually a Russian probe against the Baltic states—perhaps the Estonian city of Narva—testing whether the alliance still… Continue reading
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Zelensky’s threatens Orban
Tensions between Ukraine and Hungary have sharply escalated after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a controversial warning directed at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the ongoing dispute over a major European Union financial package for Ukraine. The confrontation centers on a €90 billion ($104 billion) European Union loan program intended to support Ukraine’s economy… Continue reading
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Russia Alleges UK and France Weigh Plans to Provide Ukraine With Nuclear Arms
Moscow has publicly accused the United Kingdom and France of considering plans to provide Kiev with nuclear weapons or related technologies. On 24 February 2026, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) issued a statement alleging that officials in London and Paris are contemplating ways to transfer nuclear weapons — including the possibility of an atomic bomb… Continue reading
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LAND FOR PEACE?
Ukraine’s Dilemma Between Territorial Integrity and the Quest to End The War The idea of a “land for peace” agreement in Ukraine has moved from an unthinkable scenario to a subject of intense international debate. Negotiations in Abu Dhabi involving Ukrainian, Russian, and U.S. envoys, has revived discussions about potential compromises, even as Ukrainian officials… Continue reading
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The economy of Russia and China
Russia and China have taken distinct approaches to state involvement in their economies. While both countries have witnessed significant state control over industries, the mechanisms through which this control is exercised differ. In China, the party-aristocratic nature of the system allows for indirect state control over private industrial empires through control over individuals. Conversely, Russia’s… Continue reading
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THE GREAT CONFLICT FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD
This article was originally published on L’Antidiplomatico. The associated forms of human life that we can call “society” if seen from the inside, or “states”, if from the outside, have always had three kinds of exchanges between them: short, medium and long term. Although the rhetoric of globalization gave a superficial impression that distances and… Continue reading
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Russia pulled the trigger: was she forced to? – part II
part I The Donbass conflict While the West supported the violent and unconstitutional overthrow of the democratically elected Yanukovich government, any uprisings in the very East of the country that had voted for the disposed Yanukovich would not be tolerated. The government that had come to power on the streets of Kiev very quickly resorted… Continue reading
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Russia may have pulled the trigger, but was she forced to? – part I
A realist’s view on the Russo-Ukrainian war – part I The current conflict in Ukraine is often defined in the West as Putin’s war. The journalists and representatives of the state who find their mouthpieces among the corporate and state-run media go into long diatribes analysing the psychology of Putin, citing isolation due to Covid,… Continue reading
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“The US has escalated the tension between Russia and Ukraine”, says China
The ins-and-outs of the unfolding Ukraine issue are crystal clear. The moves of the US-led NATO have escalated the tension between Russia and Ukraine to the breaking point. The US, instead of taking real actions to ease the situation, has been incessantly adding fuel to the flame, heightening the conflict, forcing other countries to pick… Continue reading
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A very American idiot
In a recent and widely published editorial written in the form of a letter that appeared in Le Monde and later several other publications, the famous and highly praised French-American writer Jonathan Littell, author of the award-winning novel “The Kindly Ones”, invites his “dear Russian friends” to take the matter into their own hands and… Continue reading
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Historian Niall Ferguson: “In Ukraine, the US is not interested in diplomacy”
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, British historian Niall Ferguson said the United States has chosen a strategy that prolongs the war in Ukraine. These remarks seem quite at odds with the Ferguson character,a professor now at Stanford University, who called himself a “member of the imperialist gang”. “The Biden administration… Continue reading
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Moscua delenda est: shall Moscow be destroyed?
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has left most people in the West terrified. And while many citizens keep asking how a war like this could happen in Europe in the twenty first century, others raise the question: did the West do too little to avoid the Russian attack? Has the West been too weak and… Continue reading
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What’s the goal of the West in the Ukraine war?
This article originally appeared on Nachdenkseiten. The West is delivering weapons, tearing down the last diplomatic bridges and showing tremendous solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The solidarity of the people will certainly be well intentioned. It tears the heart. But if you want to minimize people’s suffering, you shouldn’t rely on escalation, but on… Continue reading
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Can China bring peace between Russia and Ukraine?
Experts and commentators have spent a lot of words on some kind of new world order or new geopolitical reality after the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. But a new world order is rarely born without a major crisis. The post world war II bipolar order was born after the devastation of the deadliest war… Continue reading
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