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Ukraine: mass-protest online Saturday, March 5

by Edward Steen, Vienna. March 6, 2022 Organised throughout Europe by the Union of European Federalists Europe's first-ever supranational demonstration took place online last night at...

Who is Volodymyr Zelensky? From TV star and comedian to resistance hero

Post Paddington voiceover, the man who leads Ukraine's resistance to Russia By James Hookway, Wall Street Journal President Volodymyr Zelensky has become the face of Ukraine’s...

Maps as weapons

Financial Times John Gapper When Apple suspended sales of iPhones and other products in Russia this week, it also made a subtler intervention. Along with Google,...

Noose tightening round Southern Ukraine as Putin pushes to link with East

Mariupol, CNN: authorities warned of a "critical" situation for residents amid heavy shelling Friday morning. It's not clear how many of Mariupol's roughly 400,000...

Exodus from Hell as mortars explode around the refugee train

Lviv, Ukraine 2 March 2022 by Askold Krushelnycky Last week Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin declared the pro-Moscow entities independent republics and used the pretext of “liberating” them...

Belarus tanks wait at the border as Lviv prepares itself

Cannes, 2 March 2022 by Mark Porter Our reporter on the ground has made it to Lviv, near the Polish and Belarus borders. He reports that...

Gergiev’s star falls as Kyiv prepares to look Hell in the face

Cannes, 1 March 2022 by Mark Porter Russia’s star conductor, Valery Gergiev, has been sacked by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and also dropped by his management over...

How Johnson was a gift to Putin

"Far from defending liberal values, the Prime Minister has shown disdain for international and domestic law," The New Statesman. This article appeared in this week's...

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Russian Air Force

by Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute The Russian invasion of Ukraine began as expected in the early hours of 24 February: a...

A game of mirrors as the West asserts itself

Cannes, 28 February 2022 By Mark Porter Today was the day the timid peaceniks of the EU became hawks. In one fell swoop Vladimir Putin succeeded...

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