How Putin’s Russia is waging war against the next generation
Prosecuting Russia’s Crimes Against Ukrainian Civilians and POWs
There are months that pass quietly, and then there is February. For Russians who believe in democracy, it has become a month of reckoning — a month when…
Forward Note by Professor Jeff Kahn Hamlet observed that it is “an unweeded garden that grows to seed.” Grieving the murder of his father, the king, he bemoans the ugly and dangerous world in which he finds himself, an environment possessed by things “rank…
A Systematic Tool of Repression
1. The “plan” doesn’t reflect the actual situation on the battlefield The plan forces Ukraine to make many concessions, while at the same time providing wide-ranging benefits for Russia (including complete absolution of material and legal responsibility for the aggression), in return for zero…
Updates for 2024–2025
Vladimir Zhbankov on the fate of kidnapped Ukrainian citizens
Introduction In early March 2022, as Russian troops occupied Bucha and Hostomel, Patriarch Kirill declared during a sermon at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior: “Russia is waging not a physical, but a metaphysical battle against the forces of evil in Ukraine.” He framed this…
“Poshuk. Polon”: The fate of tens of thousands of military and civilian Ukrainians remains unknown
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