I once flew Dubai to San Paulo and back for some 17 hours. What can I say, humans are the most adaptable creatures.

63% of draft age Ukrainians don’t consider the possibility of going to the frontline, as per Suspilne poll. Only 20% do.

Law-makers ditched the possibility of demobilisation in the newly adopted mobilisation law, so for many it sounds like a one-way road.
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Aleksandr Dugin becomes the head of Ivan Ilyin Centre at RGGU, once a liberal university and a product of perestroika. Sad it goes literally fascist as the result.

Russian oligarchs get their sanctions lifted because of the nature of the sanctions - adopted as a reprisal, a collective punishment of all Russians, not a way of achieving anything or changing anyone’s behaviour. Hence sloppy argumentation that falls apart in court.

Playing football at the time of war. Purportedly from Kharkiv

Wow, the Kremlin links terror attack at Crocus Hall to Ukrainian energy company Burisma whose tarnished image Hunter Biden was employed to whitewash. A wild accusation, as it sounds now.
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Putin nominated his former university classmate, Irina Podnosova, for the head of Supreme Court. A regime that’s also an extended family.

Pavel “Mogila” Kuznetsov of Ukraine’s Russian Volunteer Corps comments on the latest incursion into Russia in a propaganda film released by this unit: “Psy-op or not, let the Russian authorities figure out whether we are taking photos at their porch or somewhere near Kyiv. This…

“I’ve never seen Chasov Yar so beautiful”, Russian drone operator is heard saying in this video. Russian army is wiping out the Ukrainian town, Chasiv Yar, which is set to become the next main battlefield of this horrible war.

The war that grew out of incessant far-right…

Aleksandr Demidenko was a Russian volunteer in Belgorod region who helped numerous Ukrainian refugees repatriate. News came today that he died in a remand prison where he ended up for his activities. He is known to have been tortured earlier during his ordeal.

Memorial’s Oleg Orlov turned 71 today. He is serving a 2.5-year prison sentence for calling Putin’s regime “totalitarian” and “fascist” in a newspaper article. He refused to plead guilty during his trial in February.

As Ukraine’s Institute of Memory is trying to erase the memory of the famous Kyivite, Mikhail Bulgakov, an unlikely defender of the author emerged in the shape of Borislav Bereza, a spin doctor of the Right Sector fame.

This is only interesting because spin doctors have an…

New York MAGA blogger Yura Dashevsky, whose Jewish parents escaped the Holocaust in Ukraine by moving to Uzbekistan as per his bio, adoringly interviews Aleksandr “Fortuna” of Ukraine’s Russian Volunteer Corps, whose members proudly describe themselves as heirs of Hitler’s…

Horrible mobilisation story in Odessa region where uniformed people detained and beat up a teenager having taken him for a draft-age man. They kicked him out of their vehicle after they figured out he was only 14. He had to walk some 5km back home. Police are investigating.

Fair question. Could it be that people like Pellegrini and Fico get elected in a Central European country bordering on Ukraine not because Russian propaganda is so strong or impactful, but because pro-Ukrainian propaganda, churning out disgusting xenophobia, is so off-putting?

More doom and gloom in the analysis of Ukraine’s options by the day. The discourse is trapped by jingoistic rhetorics that was employed to prevent a peace deal earlier in the conflict, specifically the claim that anything short of 1991 borders means capitulation. Note the…

Jailed Russian Opposition Activist Again Sent To Solitary Confinement, Lawyer Says rferl.org/a/russia-oppos…

Scandal in the world of Russian blood and soil nationalists: Former Wagner commander known under the call sign Ratibor (a medieval pagan Slavic name) has joined the Chechen Akhmat unit with a few hundred (or as he claims - several thousand) followers. For neo-nazis fighting in…

On Gaza, Slovenia has been a ray of light in the moral darkness of central Europe

Ukraine’s finance Serhiy Marchenko minister has recently called on his compatriots to avoid using their cars in order to save resources for the war effort. Strana checked his asset declaration and found out that his wife bought a new Mini Cooper in 2023, in addition to his own…