By George Weigel The unrepentant KGB man is determined to reverse the verdicts of 1989 and ’91. On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had…

by George Weigel In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, “They…

By George Weigel Putin refines an old totalitarian tactic. Reading Eugene Robinson’s witless recycling of Kremlin propaganda on the op-ed page of the March 11 Washington Post, a scene from…

Parliament moves to curb Yanukovych’s power, but skeptics say he has to go. By George Weigel As the world watches the closing of the Sochi Olympics on Sunday evening, the…

Scenes from the front lines Early in the evening of February 18, Bishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church went to the tent-chapel in Kiev’s Independence Square, where…

State-sanctioned murder on the streets of Kiev For I can see nothing but violence and strife in the city. Night and day they patrol high on the city walls. It…

Last Thursday, in response to new and draconian laws that abridged their civil liberties, several Ukrainian democracy activists tweeted and texted that they now “lived in a dictatorship.” Some Western…

Less than 72 hours after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych seemed to back off from his Ministry of Culture’s threat to decertify the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and put this largest…

The UGCC and its clergy, the archbishop continued, were not “participant in political processes.” But the Church could not “stand aside when its faithful requested spiritual support.” Those Greek Catholics,…