A “long twilight struggle” between democracy and communism required Americans to bear fresh burdens, John F. Kennedy said in his 1961 inauguration speech. Two years later, Hannah Arendt stated in… Read more »
“Ukrainian democracy continues” as Russia is failing to achieve nearly all of its war objectives in Ukraine, a senior White House official said on Sunday. “In our view, Russia has already… Read more »
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is among five people named as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for acting to protect democracy, AP reports. Mr Zelenskiy was… Read more »
European Council President Charles Michel met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv — which he called the “heart of a free and democratic Europe” — and pledged to… Read more »
What has happened in Ukraine provides “a valuable lesson” for the world’s democracies, argues Francis Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies… Read more »
An independent expert mission set up within the OSCE Moscow Mechanism today released its report documenting human rights violations, international humanitarian law (IHL) violations, and possible war crimes committed by… Read more »
Marvel at the heroism and resilience of Ukraine. In the first days of war, the armored might of Vladimir Putin shriveled before the courage of the nation he had attacked,… Read more »
Ukraine must ensure that the country’s politics is not poisoned by a triumph over Russia since victory will understandably create hype, and a sense of pride, argues Oleksandr Danylyuk,… Read more »
CNN’s Jake Tapper met with Myroslav Marynovych (above), vice-rector of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and a former prisoner in the Soviet gulag in the Ural Mountains. “This is the… Read more »
Russian news propaganda is shielding residents from the horrors of the invasion of Ukraine, NBC News reports (above). Eight years of practice in countering disinformation prepared civil society for Russia’s… Read more »