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  • Tensions rise in Bosnia as Dodik eyes the invasion of Ukraine

    Tensions rise in Bosnia as Dodik eyes the invasion of Ukraine

    ANALYSIS by Arno Van Rensbergen Arno Van Rensbergen is a freelance writer, researcher and content producer. He is the founder and director of media startup, Pulsar Docs. Russia’s re-invasion of Ukraine is reawakening war demons in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Putin-backed Serb and Croat nationalists are threatening to tear the country apart. The Bosnian Serb member […]

    Arno Van Rensbergen

    1st Jul 2022
    Bosnia
  • “The war never ended for us”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo

    “The war never ended for us”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo

    INTERVIEW April marks 30 years since the Siege of Sarajevo began in 1992. It remains the longest military siege of a capital city in history. The failed attempt by Bosnian Serb forces and their sponsors in the Milošević regime to seize Bosnia’s capital involved atrocities against civilians and crimes against humanity. The multiethnic and multi-faith […]

    Georgio Konstandi

    30th Apr 2022
    Bosnia
    Bosnian War, history, human rights, siege of sarajevo
  • “Why didn’t the world act sooner?”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo

    “Why didn’t the world act sooner?”: remembering the Siege of Sarajevo

    INTERVIEW April marks 30 years since the Siege of Sarajevo began in 1992. It remains the longest military siege of a capital city in history. The failed attempt by Bosnian Serb forces and their sponsors in the Milošević regime to seize Bosnia’s capital involved atrocities against civilians and crimes against humanity. The multiethnic and multi-faith […]

    Georgio Konstandi

    18th Apr 2022
    Bosnia
    Bosnian War, Dragan Mioković, human rights, siege of sarajevo, Yugoslav Wars
  • Fascism knocks on France’s door this election… and this time it may knock it down

    Fascism knocks on France’s door this election… and this time it may knock it down

    ANALYSIS With two days to go before French voters head to the polls, far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen stands just 2.5 percentage points away from victory in the first round of the presidential election (IFOP). Yes, you read that correctly. Never has a far-right candidate polled this close to the winner’s spot, not even when […]

    Georgio Konstandi

    8th Apr 2022
    France
    Emmanuel Macron, far right, Islamophobia, Marine Le Pen, politics, presidential election
  • Art and protest in Putin’s Russia

    Art and protest in Putin’s Russia

    ANALYSIS With thanks to Liza Malyan In the past few weeks living in London I have seen the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag on every corner. As little as a ribbon pinned to the lapel is a symbol of allegiance with the oppressed. It is easy to forget that the freedom to express […]

    Charlotte Boreham

    1st Apr 2022
    Russia
    art, culture, protest, Russian invasion of Ukraine, society
  • Britain’s love affair with pro-Kremlin oligarchs

    Britain’s love affair with pro-Kremlin oligarchs

    ANALYSIS London is a city designed for the rich. Those that have visited the city know that prices are exorbitantly high; beware of going for a pint, you may soon find yourself looking apologetically at your bank account. While the ordinary citizen struggles to maintain a decent standard of living, the wealthiest members of our […]

    Julie Luebken

    21st Mar 2022
    Russia, UK
    corruption, politics, Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Ukrainian Roma in times of war

    Ukrainian Roma in times of war

    ESSAY Russia launched its re-invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Since then, we have been hearing and reading daily accounts of the Ukrainian army’s responses to the advances of the Russian aggressor, and of the mass exodus of over 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees into neighbouring Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. It is the […]

    Dr. Lucie Fremlova

    15th Mar 2022
    Ukraine
    history, human rights, Roma, Roma history, Russian invasion of Ukraine, war
  • Thoughts from a Ukrainian refugee

    Thoughts from a Ukrainian refugee

    CN: war, trauma OPINION How do I write that my older brother could go to war? How do I write that I cannot comfort my godchildren, wipe their tears away and protect them from the injustice now taking place? How can I write that the peace in which my goddaughter believes does not exist? Imagine […]

    Anastasiya Tigipko

    7th Mar 2022
    Ukraine
  • President Biden, do not abandon Ukraine

    President Biden, do not abandon Ukraine

    Dear President Biden, You’re abandoning Ukraine.  In your address on Monday 22 February, you said Putin was setting a rationale to invade Ukraine. You said he is aiming to take large sections of Ukraine by force. And you were right.  He is taking more territory than even those controlled by Russian separatists. He’s launching attacks […]

    Eliza Miller

    5th Mar 2022
    News, Ukraine
  • A letter from Kyiv

    A letter from Kyiv

    CN: war, trauma When I woke up on 24 February, I was expecting a day like any other. I’d have breakfast, make coffee, and head to work. I’d smile at our customers, trade anecdotes with my colleagues, call my friends and family to ask them about their plans for the upcoming weekend. “Maybe we can […]

    Talya Vazheyevskyy

    1st Mar 2022
    Ukraine
    human rights, Invasion of Ukraine, kyiv, war
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