Greece, Ukraine, Communism, War, Europe - with Christos Chomenidis
I read this book with absolute passion. While it is a novel, it is truly an epic—the story of a family told through the greatest upheavals a...
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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman
Although Russia claims to be waging a war against the so-called West, no other country has officially deployed its military to fight alongsi...
Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini
On March 16, 2022, the Russian army committed one of the gravest war crimes of its invasion of Ukraine. It dropped air bombs on the Mariupol...
How Russians Are Erasing Life in Ukraine’s South - with Zarina Zabrisky
The Russian army is hunting people in Kherson, a major city in the southern part of Ukraine. It is estimated that 700 Russian drones attack...
Why Europe must fix its defence now - with Moritz Schularick
Ukraine has won time for Europe. A vast amount of time. But the price of this time has been tremendous. It is measured not in money, but in...
How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko
In recent months, Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia have outnumbered Russian strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has managed to build its military...
Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans
Let’s travel for a moment. Imagine you are on the shore of the Black Sea, in Odesa—one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe. Odesa...
Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras
Can Europe become a genuine security union? Is it truly aware of the 21st-century geopolitical dangers that threaten its very existence? How...
What Black Americans and Ukrainians can tell each other
What do Ukrainians and Black Americans share in their historical and cultural experiences? Can we draw comparisons between serfdom and slave...
Why Ukraine's resistance starts with ordinary people
How did two friends save hundreds of civilians? How did one restaurant feed tens of thousands in a besieged city? What does a former entrepr...
Why the world needs Ukraine’s war tech - with Yulia Marushevska
Why has Ukraine rapidly emerged as a global leader in advanced defense technology? What is the secret behind this innovation? How has warfar...
Decoding Trump’s Ukraine policy - with Christopher Atwood
Since Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency, Russia has drastically escalated its missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities. In J...
Russia's energy terror against Ukraine - with Oksana Ishchuk
During this record-breaking cold winter, millions of Ukrainians are regularly left without electricity, water, or heat as temperatures plumm...
Can Ukraine win the technological war? - with Volodymyr Havrylov
What are the prospects for peace talks — and why are many Ukrainians skeptical about them? Does Ukraine have technological parity with Russi...
Cities without kings: humanity's prehistory on Ukrainian soil — with David Wengrow
What can the deep past of Ukrainian lands reveal about the global story of humanity? Six thousand years ago, "mega-sites" flourished in what...
Ukraine in 2025: can peace talks succeed?
In 2025, Ukraine is facing unprecedented pressure from one of its key partners, the United States. The Trump administration has chosen not t...
How Ukrainians fund their own defense: the story of “Come Back Alive”
Imagine an NGO that has raised over one billion dollars to support the Ukrainian army. Imagine a civil society initiative that purchases arm...
Ukrainian geopolitical thought - with Danylo Lubkivsky
Ukraine has its own tradition of geopolitical thinking — a tradition that reaches deep into the past and continues to shape the country’s st...
Why the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is unique - with Natalia Shlikhta
What makes the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church so unique? Why is it such a remarkable attempt to bridge the divide between Eastern and Weste...
Ukrainian culture: how to reassemble a broken picture - with Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta
Ukrainian cultural heritage is not something that quietly settles into national archives. In reality, it is the result of a dramatic struggl...