Category: Ukraine

  • Straightforward?

    Friday’s White House meeting with Trump, JD Vance, Zelensky and others took place the day after a significant date – February 27. It was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. Nemtsov was in his time the most straightforward and outspoken critic of Putin and the Putin regime. But he fell…

  • A support action for Ilya Yashin and other political prisoners in Russia

    That is what was carried out on Saturday, June 29 at “Free Ukraine’s Place” next to the Russian Embassy on Gjörwellsgatan in Stockholm. That it was this particular date – June 29 – has to do with the fact that it is the birthday of Ilya Yashin – Yashin, one of hundreds of other political…

  • “The very least..”

    In the thirty-ninth chapter of the book of Jeremiah, we can read about “the very least” or “the poor, those who had nothing”, and who remained in the land, after the great powers Egypt – Jer. chapter 37 – and Babel, had brought their armies back and forth – fighting, exploiting and ravaging. Jer. 39:10…

  • From Marching to Crashing

    Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Wagner boss – has apparently died in a plane crash above Tver in Russia. I have been thinking about that man all this year, and especially after the campaign in June. It was then that he organized his soldiers in a “march of justice”. This march was prepared over several weeks…

  • Acts of Protest !

    Russians in exile took part in protests against the Putin regime’s war in Ukraine on the anniversary of the invasion, February 24. Such was carried out in more than fifty cities around the world, according to Lyubov Sobol who speaks at the beginning of this clip (with English subtitles) / CNN