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The West’s obligation to Ukraine (The Washington Post)
By Madeleine Albright and Jim O’Brien Madeleine Albright was secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. Jim O’Brien was presidential envoy for the Balkans in the Clinton administration. She is…
Timothy Snyder: Freedom in Russian exists only in Ukraine (London Evening Standart)
Last weekend Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the most famous of Russia’s political prisoners, spoke to tens of thousands of Ukrainians on the main square in Kiev, the Maidan. Khodorkovsky told them what…
Ukraine: Fear grows among Catholics in Crimea (Vatican Insider)
Today the Pope met with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in the Ukraine. “Pray for the miracle of peace,” the archbishop said “Pope Francis today received in private…
Don’t let Russia abuse Crimean history (The Globe and Mail)
Victor Ostapchuk As the international crisis over Crimea’s status escalates, the fate of the Crimean Tatars has been nearly absent from the discussion. The West has essentially accepted a manipulation…
Russia’s information warriors are on the march – we must respond (Telegraph)
By Anne Applebaum A robust campaign to tell the truth about Crimea is needed to counter Moscow’s lies ‘Russian television news is reporting…” Nowadays, when I hear those words pronounced…
Crimea: Putin vs. Reality (The New York Review of Books)
Timothy Snyder This is the third installment in Timothy Snyder’s series on Russian ideology and the Ukrainian revolution. Earlier articles examined the Kremlin’s Eurasian ideology and its propaganda about the…
How Europe should respond russian intervention Ukraine (New Republic)
BY TIMOTHY SNYDER In dispatching troops to Ukraine, Russia has violated international law, flouted multiple treaty commitments, and set the stage for a European war. It has no casus belli,…
Ukraine’s hero colonel insists he was just doing his duty (The Telegraph)
By Roland Oliphant, Sevastopol Diminuitive air force commander who marched in the face of Russian guns has become probablay the most celebrated member of the Ukrainian armed forces He wears…
Tatar Sunni Muslims pose a threat to Russia’s occupation of Crimea (The Guardian)
Andrew Wilson Pro-Ukrainian Islamic minority could mount a more organised resistance against Russian forces in Crimea peninsula Russia may be tightening its grip on Crimea, with little resistance to date,…
Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin
*To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin* Mr. President! We are Jewish citizens of Ukraine: businessmen, managers, public figures, scientists and scholars, artists and musicians. We are…