Our book isn't straightforwardly about "war and peace", but about the regime and identity divergence between Ru and Ukraine, which Ru refuses to accept. We'll take the "hot new releases" label, though! Thanks, Amazon. @OxanaShevel @politybooks

Leaving aside that Ru has been seeking to destroy Ukraine for the last 10+ yrs, BenAris is also making things up. Ru's income is not on par w EU average! In fact, Ru is poorer on a bunch of indicators than Bulgaria, which is not the EU average, but usually the poorest in the EU.

""I spent the entire night in a shelter yesterday. The entire night. Listening to explosions, feeling the walls shake, praying that this wasn't my last day. And then I wake up to comments saying they 'don't believe the Western media,' that what's happening in Ukraine isn't

WOW! Slovak students walked out of a meeting with Fico after he criticized the EU's support for Ukraine. When the students defended the need to aid Ukraine's existential defence, Fico told them they should "go fight there" instead. These young people have a strong moral compass

Q: Isn't your assessment that Russia does not really want peace? Rubio: Russia demands the rest of Donetsk, which Ukraine can't accept. They keep striking Ukraine’s grid to demoralize it, losing about 7,000 soldiers a week. Their actions show no real interest in peace. 1/

They ripped out his teeth and eyelids… and said he died of a blood clot This is not a story from history books — it’s what a Ukrainian boy told us about his friend who didn’t survive Russian torture. In my interview with @CNN , I spoke about how Russia’s war targets not only

A dark, horrific night for Kyiv. I can hardly remember russia ever bombing this many apartment buildings in a single terrorist strike here.

@kadmitriev And here’s the film for YouTube watchers:

The news about an investigation into a corruption scheme in the energy sector is, unfortunately, not surprising. It is a logical echo of the past, in which the Kremlin spent decades building a system to keep Ukraine within its sphere of influence. Corruption was one of its main

Must-watch. Complete lack of self-awareness; imperialist frenzy w nods to anti-semitism/anti-immigrant racism. Hyper-imperialist cultural production by the Ru state. Dunno when the US, British, or French states last produced sth like this, 6-7 decades ago, I'd guess.

I would go further and say that quite a few EU members don't have similarly strong and active anticorruption institutions either.

The fact that Ukraine is now in the middle of a major corruption scandal—where over 100 million dollars in alleged graft in the energy sector has been exposed—should be understood not as a sign of weakness, but as evidence that Ukraine has remained a functioning democracy. This

But, but, but… something about NATO!

If the Norwegians go through with this, they should give the Nobel Peace Prize to themselves.

Polish FM Sikorski: As long as Germany is in NATO and the EU, I fear German pacifism more than I fear German rearmament.

I don't really get how people imagine the fight against corruption - vibes, papers, essays? Of course, when you dismantle another scheme, it looks unpleasant, but the only reason you even see this is because our anticorruption system works well and no corrupt scum is safe.

Also, this case will now trigger a storm in the judiciary too, which has its own internal struggles w reformists trying to curb judicial corruption. We're seeing Italy's mani pulite and Romania's DNA campaign unfolding during war. It's a dangerous fork in the road.

any hope of recovering his reputation, he'll have to refrain from any retaliation/sabotage of the criminal justice process going forward. Also, if he tries to retaliate, the protests will return and could be angrier and more consequential for him than any allied pressure.

they managed to bring the cases to court and trigger resignations is in itself a signal that they've achieved independence and institutional power. That's the silver lining. The bad news is that the reputational fallout w the allies is going to be huge. For Ze to have...

The Ukrainian corruption scandal unfolding rn falsifies any hope that the existential war would root out corruption. The painstaking work of anticorruption institutions/civil society continues. It seems we now know why NABU/SAPO were attacked over the summer. The fact that...

no one was "punishing" Russia. Bush clearly wanted to prevent the collapse, and Clinton regularly deferred to russian concerns. the west showed a cold almost contemptuous indifference to russia rather than a desire to punish, which maybe galls a person like this even more