War
In-depth analysis of Russia's war against Ukraine—its origins, its conduct, and its consequences: how the aggression reshapes the lives caught up in it, how questions of justice and accountability take shape, and what the conflict means for security far beyond the front line
For Ukraine’s Children Under Russian Occupation, Two Futures: A Russian Uniform or a Prison Cell
What does Russia expect Ukrainian children living under Russian occupation to become? Increasingly, the answer appears brutally simple. Accept the identity the occupying state has prepared for you,…
Children as Instruments
Russia's Militarization, Indoctrination, and Destruction of the National Identity of Ukrainian Children in Occupied Territory and the Russian Federation
If You Capture the Children,
You Capture the Future
How Putin’s Russia is waging war against the next generation
Universal Jurisdiction
Prosecuting Russia’s Crimes Against Ukrainian Civilians and POWs
February
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…
Russia’s Escalating Use of Terrorism Charges Against Ukrainians
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…
Russia’s Weaponization of Terrorism Charges Against Ukrainians
A Systematic Tool of Repression
Why the 28-Point “Plan” on Ukraine Can’t be Considered Serious
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…
Ukraine: Russia’s Continuing Violations of International Law Against Civilians and POWs
Updates for 2024–2025
“The dead usually remain silent”
Vladimir Zhbankov on the fate of kidnapped Ukrainian citizens