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And the Chechen dissident who has come to Kyiv to stop it.

Ukraine has established a narrative of its bravery and invincibility, and Russia's massive disinformation campaign has not been a success in the Western media. The Ukrainians have not yet won the information war, but the Russian General Staff has already lost it, writes Peeter Tali, colonel and former deputy head of the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, in a commentary originally published in the Riigikogu Toimetised parliamentary magazine.

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 the Russian state conducted two bloody wars against the small nation of Chechnya. The first, from 1994-6, ended with a peace treaty following the defeat of Russia’s attempt to smash the Chechen national movement. The second, which began with a Russian invasion after October 1999 and ended with Russia declaring the victory of its “counter terrorism operation” in 2009, facilitated Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and was important to consolidating his r...

Olga Vasilevskaya-Smaglyuk, who represents the devastated city in Ukraine's parliament, adds that Ukrainians understand Israel's concerns about Russia's presence in Syria, 'but there is a human dimension as well'

The Russian government says 1,351 of its soldiers have died since the start of the invasion of Ukraine now in its second month. Moscow's figures of combat deaths, reported by the official Interfax news agency, are dramatically lower than estimates from NATO countries or Ukrainian officials.

The wave of cultural backlash against Russians is not only discriminatory but also wrongheaded, counterproductive and may end up playing well into Putins hands by confirming his antagonistic worldview of the West

Mar 07, 2022 // Diplomatic Courier correspondent Nikola Mikovic explores Russia's media and economic decoupling from the West and what that means, both for the future of Ukraine and for the future of Russia itself.

Eleven days into the Kremlins invasion of Ukraine, a wave of cultural backlash against Russians (in a sense, a wave of Russophobia) seems to have swept over Western countries. Russian artists, musici...

Detailed article on the war in Chechnya and historical background in the northern Caucasus from an anarchist perspective by Autonomous Action.

Nataliya Gumenyuk spent a night embedded with Kyiv's police and volunteer Civilian Defense unit as they prepared to fight Russian troops.