Monthly Archives: September 2026

Geoffrey Roberts: What is the alternative for European states to keeping the war going for as long as possible and sustaining the Zelensky administration? The alternative is a negotiated settlement that will be damaging for Ukraine and politically and economically … Continue reading →

Volodymyr Ishchenko, X: Understanding the war not as arising out of systemic contradictions that determined objective interests cutting across the whole post-Soviet space and globally, but out of the idiosyncrasies of a very narrow clique or just Putin alone, facilitated … Continue reading →

Die Zeit:

Sometimes I read the news and I feel like a kid again.

Irina Novik, Russian Election Monitor: Following the Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and the wives of mobilized men, whose “uprisings” were suppressed, Russian service members and their relatives have emerged as a new source of dissent, posting daily on social media … Continue reading →

I used to watch this as a kid and am gaining new appreciation for it today.