The latest film from director Evgeny Afineevsky blends personal accounts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with remarkable first-hand footage to tell a story of...
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An insightful Netflix documentary provides much needed background to current events in Ukraine, and clues as to why a once divided country has united to fight the...
The Minsk agreements have for seven years failed to prevent fighting in eastern Ukraine. The idea, floated by Emmanuel Macron, that they could now form the basis of a...
Oliver Stone’s new documentary about Nursultan Nazarbayev aimed to lionise the long-time leader of Kazakhstan, but has instead attracted derision both within Kazakhstan...
After a group of French senators visiting Kyiv to celebrate the city’s birthday stumbled across a far-right event involving children, Ukraine’s western...
Can a proposed new bill really break the stranglehold of Ukraine’s oligarchs? Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky, has finally submitted a long-awaited...
The ongoing lack of justice for the 48 people killed in the Ukrainian city of Odesa on May 2, 2014, makes the event perfect ammunition for Russian propaganda. May 2...
Reform of the Ukrainian defence giant Ukroboronprom points towards a promising future for a potentially important, yet under-performing sector of the country’s...
Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s next president, it may go for the jugular. But it is triggering civil conflict, not interfering in the...
Current events in Belarus could be leading to an outcome similar to that of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia rather than the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed, and to a certain extent, amplified, the political, economic and social vulnerabilities of our societies. For a country that has for...
Mikheil Saakashvili, the exiled former president of Georgia, is set to return to frontline politics in Ukraine having been nominated by the country’s president...
