Category: Ukraine
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Restoration work in wartime Ukraine
A suburb of Kiev in Ukraine. For the past four years, my visits there – here – have been during an ongoing war. Just as the war has changed shape during these years, so has the appearance of society. Here I compare some photos I took in 2023 with photos from the same places in…
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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…
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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…
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“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…