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What’s going on in Ukraine?
People from all over the world see the black smoke from used tires, aggressive protesters throwing stones and molotovs in police and think: these are dangerous extremists! Why don’t they resolve all these questions in their parliament? The government tells the same to the people gathered at the Maidan in […]
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Gas Politics and Gay Rights: Russia’s Soft Power Problems
In Romanian, the word ‘maidan’ means empty, weed-choked field. So it was more than a bit funny when the word became a household term across the EU in the past few months. The ‘Euromaidan’ became a symbol of democracy and the fight of the Ukraininan people against the choking weeds […]
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Ukraine at the crossroads of globalization
Special thanks to my co-author, Julia Rokicka Like the traveller in Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken, Ukraine is now poised between two roads, one pro-European Union and the other pro-Russian. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its own independence, Ukrainian society has been divided, […]
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Ukraine: corrupt police hire thugs to do their dirty work
A gang of four thugs knocked Andry Dzyndzya down and started choking and kicking him while a group of some ten policemen stood by watching and smiling, appreciating the quality of the thugs’ work like true connoisseurs. Carnage at a private impound yard (in Russian, amateur filming by Road Control): […]
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It’s a homosexual plot: authoritarian Ukraine plunges into conspiracy theories
“I come to work and there are two fags there and my boss is kinda a fag too… So I feel discriminated against. Why do I need it? And if a factory manager with painted lips comes … well I’m sorry. I can just imagine how disgusting and humiliating that […]