It’s unimportant to its representatives that Ozhelskiy’s father was born in what’s nowadays Western Ukraine nor that his son considers himself Ukrainian and even participated in multiple rallies against his own country. Kiev will always consider that young man to be Russian, their attitude towards which can be described as ”Russo-contempt” or “Russo-odiousness” in the…
Those who claim to #StandWithUkraine aren’t “defending the free world from authoritarian terror”, “safeguarding the rules-based order”, or “protecting everyone’s human rights”, but “normalizing” anti-minority hate speech that’ll inevitably widen to include Black & Brown folks, homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, and other minorities residing within the US-led West’s Golden Billion. Those who claim to #StandWithUkraine insist…
The stunning victory of a far-right coalition in Italy’s parliamentary election on Sunday is largely seen from the distinct prospect of Giorgia Meloni becoming the country’s next prime minister, whose hardline views on immigration and the preservation of the “Christian family” are rooted in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a party founded after World War…
When the so-called “Leader of the opposition” opposes protest against a new unelected head of state, out of respect for the previous unelected head of state, you know you live under totalitarianism. Except almost all dictatorships do at least have the form of an election. Indeed, some of the worst dictators in modern history have…
The issue is extremely sensitive since it concerns socio-political and strategic issues that prominently affect what each state regards as their national interests. The subject of fully banning Russian visas has recently come to the fore of Western policymaking. Some Central & Eastern European (CEE) countries like the Baltic States and Poland want to prevent…
Nobody in good conscience could endorse anyone else gleefully talking about committing genocide like Vrublevsky just shamelessly did. If there’s any silver lining to this scandal, however, it’s that it showed just how comfortable that regime’s representatives are talking about the plans that they have for their country’s Russian minority. Ukrainian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Pyotr…
