Shortly before 22:00 BST on 7 May, Lavryovych sent Pochynok a message on Telegram saying: “Look, we won’t talk much on the phone. At that address, there’ll be a car, need to check if it’s there. If it is there then basically today we’ll do the job. We’ll have money. And this week, if we…
Shorouk Express Over six million Ukrainians have settled elsewhere in Europe since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country in February 2022. Approximately 4.3 million have been granted temporary protection. This allows them to reside and work freely in European Union member states. According to statistics from the UNHCR, Poland is the EU country that hosts…
Shorouk Express The independent Russian newspaper-in-exile Meduza devotes a lengthy article (originally published in Signal, a Russian-language newsletter) to the “people have come of age, and now make up the cohort of young adults who will inherit whatever follows Vladimir Putin in Russia”. This is a group that the press has called “Generation Putin”, which…
Russia’s conflict in opposition to Ukraine, and particularly Ukrainians’ heroic dedication to defend their homeland, has sparked a full of life curiosity in such ideas and phenomena as self-sacrifice, braveness and political freedom. How can we clarify this dedication within the case of Ukrainians, and lack thereof within the case of Europeans? Does Europe possess…
