The Agony of the Mad Gas Station

After the announcement of the first anti-Russian sanctions of the Donald Trump era, it turned out that many oil-refining enterprises in the so-called “Global South,” which had previously been purchasing Russian oil, began reducing their orders even before the sanctions came into force....

The Unfinished Language

In Ukraine, language is still spoken of as if it were just another subject on the school timetable. Yet it remains the most painful spot in our political and cultural biography. Once – and Yurii Sheveliov would not let us deny it – even a private conversation in Ukrainian among educated families of the imperial era was regarded as a mark of lower status, while consistent use of Ukrainian was treated as an act of political opposition to the language of empire...