Sergey Utkin News Today

The Russian president is hardly the pious type, but does the Orthodox Church have a hand in his determination to take Ukraine?


	
For Italian daily La Stampa, Francesca Mannocchi tells the story of a Ukrainian teacher and mother in the eastern city of Dnipro, who wound up leading a volunteer drive to make Molotov cocktails. It was the part she ended up playing in taking on the Russian invaders. The journalist reflects on th...

Universities and individual professors and students around the world have taken to twitter to try to help Ukrainian students and researchers. Latvian researcher Sanita Reinsone decided to compile all these proposals under the hashtag #ScienceForUkraine, and creating a Twitter account and interactive...

What do you remember from the news this week? 1. In what neighboring country did Ukraine representatives meet their Russian counterparts for the first round of negotiations?2. What’s the name of Ukraine’s second largest city, which faced massive attacks this week from Russia?3. What adjective did Uk...


	
Sergey Utkin is hardly a rabid Russian government opponent or enemy of Vladimir Putin. Utkin is a leading analyst for the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, founded in the 1950s, and still widely considered influential in Moscow on foreign and domestic policy. Thus i...

NASA has approved the early-stage funding of a technology that could allow people to breathe air on Mars. The portable oxygen generator would rely on a process dubbed thermal sorption/desorption. This is one of the 17 projects selected by NASA for grants as part of the Innovative Advanced Concepts (...

• European art in wartime: The Swiss arts fair Artgèneve takes place this weekend in the physical realm for the first time since the pandemic began. Showcasing 80 modern and contemporary artists from all over Europe, both Ukrainian and Russian oeuvres are attracting attention — especially because Ru...

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From Kyiv, What’s Been Lost And What’s To ComeNine days. That’s the count since February 24, 2022. This new day of infamy bound for the history books will be traced to a single man, Vladimir Putin, who chose to unleash bloodshed and destruction — and unhinge an already unstable world — for exactly w...

• A third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine representatives is expected early next week as Russia continues its assault on its neighbor.• South Korea’s presidential election will take place on March 9, in what is expected to be a tight race between the two main candidates conservative...