Ukraine ‘will be decisive’ for Western alliance
Kaja Kallas remembers the stories of when her mother, Kristi, then a baby, was deported to Siberia in a cattle car with her own mother & grandmother so it is… Read more »
Category: Ukraine
Did Ukraine’s civil society help turn back Russia?
As Rosaria Puglisi pointed out in A People’s Army: Civil Society as a Security Actor in Post-Maidan Ukraine, “the large-scale mobilization of Ukrainian society is … arguably EuroMaidan’s most… Read more »
Allies aid Ukraine ‘to defend their own democracies’
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is viewed as a gut-check moment in what U.S. President Joe Biden has described as the 21st -century contest between democracy and autocracy, CSM reports. The… Read more »
Ukraine’s Zelensky ‘makes Kremlin ideology senseless’
@ZelenskyyUa‘s simple presence makes Kremlin ideology seem senseless. Born in 1978, a child of the U.S.S.R., speaks Russian… A Jew, he reminds us that democracy can be multicultural, @TimothyDSnyder writes… Read more »
Treating Russia as ‘a collective Putin will be a strategic blunder’
Is Russia on the road to dictatorship? The immense pressures generated by the war and Western sanctions could eventually bring about domestic political change in Russia, but the conceivable scenarios… Read more »
Resilient Ukraine – one of the ‘opening salvos in seismic struggle of our time’
“Ukrainian democracy continues” as Russia is failing to achieve nearly all of its war objectives in Ukraine, a senior White House official said on Sunday. “In our view, Russia has already… Read more »
Reconstruct Ukraine to launch ‘new wave of democratic progress’
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is among five people named as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for acting to protect democracy, AP reports. Mr Zelenskiy was… Read more »
Ukraine war a ‘turning point in history’: Underscores democratic crisis – and dictator’s advantage?
European Council President Charles Michel met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv — which he called the “heart of a free and democratic Europe” — and pledged to… Read more »
Why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy
What has happened in Ukraine provides “a valuable lesson” for the world’s democracies, argues Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies… Read more »
Arsenal of democracy vs Putin’s ‘Hail Mary Pass’ in Ukraine
An independent expert mission set up within the OSCE Moscow Mechanism today released its report documenting human rights violations, international humanitarian law (IHL) violations, and possible war crimes committed by… Read more »