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Ukrainian smears and stereotypes (The Washington Post)
By Anne Applebaum For those who are new to the subject — indeed, for those who have been following it for many years — the Ukrainian crisis can seem murky….
The Day We Pretended to Care About Ukraine (Politico magazine)
By SARAH KENDZIOR What does our addiction to disaster porn say about us? Journalist Simon Shuster said it was “straight out of Hieronymus Bosch.” Writer Philip Gourevitch thought it was…
Message By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew On the Tragic Situation in Ukraine
Beloved children and friends in Ukraine and abroad, It is with heavy heart that we have been following the ongoing and, indeed, only escalating tragic circumstances in Ukraine over the…
Is Ukraine the Cold War’s final episode? (The Washington Post)
By George F. Will One hundred years ago this coming Aug. 4, the day Britain declared war on Germany, socialists in the German Reichstag voted for credits to finance the…
Crucifixion in Kiev (Real Clear Religion)
Politics aside, it’s hard to deny that the images beamed to the world from the opening of the Sochi Games were anything short of stunning. Of course, removing the Olympics…
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine (The New York Review of Books)
Timothy Snyder The students were the first to protest against the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych on the Maidan, the central square in Kiev, last November. These were the Ukrainians…
Jewish-Ukrainian historian Vitaliy Nakhmanovich: “Open Address to the Jews of the World” (EAJC)
Over the last month there had been a total of three attacks on worshippers attending a Podil synagogue in Kyiv. Two were unsuccessful, one left its victim, a yeshiva student,…
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Long Live Free Ukraine! (The Huffington Post)
It is impossible to predict what the situation in Ukraine will be by the time these lines appear. Will the new “Orange Revolution” have been extinguished by the cold? Beaten…
EU once again expresses its ‘deep concern’ over Ukraine’s situation (Kyiv Post)
Editor’s Note: Anti-government EuroMaidan activists and political opposition leaders looking for visa bans and economic sanctions against Ukraine’s leaders are bound to be disappointed with the official statement that came…
We Don’t Just Make Sandwiches, or Why the Maidan needs a Women’s Squadron (Ukrainska pravda)
Anastasia Fedchenko – one of the participants of the Women’s Squadron. Picture from Anastasia’s Facebook page “Yesterday, at the entrance to Ukrainian House. Security was there, as it should be:…