Tag: Ukraine Crisis
This Russian Opposition Leader Met With Putin to Discuss a Cease-Fire to Stop the Killing
Grigory Yavlinsky is the founder of Russia’s leading and oldest democratic opposition party, Yabloko, which is the only party in Russia calling for a cease-fire. The interview was conducted by The Nation’s longtime contributor Nadia Azhgikhina at Yabloko’s Moscow offices.
At the end of 2023, the Russian media talked a lot about Yavlinsky’s “peace program” and about your midnight December 19 meeting in the Kremlin with Putin to discuss it. What is the essence of this program?
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The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion
The War in Ukraine Is at a Decisive Turning Point
In Ukraine’s Cultural Capital, “Giselle” Goes to War
Lviv, Ukraine—Here in the cultural capital of Ukraine, the statues have been wrapped in plastic. The windows and facades of the neoclassical buildings that have led many a writer to describe this city as a “jewel box” have also been covered. This may be enough to protect them from the shrapnel
How Economic Sanctions Shaped Today’s Global Powers
The Ukraine Conflict Is Not About American Freedom
Aleksandar Hemon on What’s Different About the War in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Nuclear Flashpoints | The Nation
Memory Wars in Russia and Ukraine
The Domestic Political Stakes of the War in Ukraine
Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine confronts President Joe Biden with complex challenges at a time when he is already beleaguered—but it also presents him with an opportunity for a reset on the core foreign-policy promise he made to voters during his 2020 campaign.
As a candidate, Biden offered voters not so much a change in specific international policies as an alternative approach to interacting with other nations. In managing America’s foreign policy, Biden pledged to be steady and stable,