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Five years ago on August 9, 2020, Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashen¬ka was pronounced winner of a sixth term in what were clearly rigged elections. The real winner was the main opposition candidate, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The widespread and flagrant vote fraud triggered huge street protests...
Although it might not have seemed evident at the time, August 1, 1975, was a milestone date in the history of Europe and, indeed, the world. Following three years of negotiations, the leaders of 35 countries, including U.S. President Gerald Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Final Act).
The toll of the Kremlin’s war on Russian-occupied Ukrainian lands and the human beings who live there has been devastating. Russia’s military has killed thousands of civilians.
The headline in a recent Politico Natio¬nal Security Daily article about U.S. Presi¬dent Donald Trump’s shocking peace plan pointedly asks the question: “Did Putin write this?” Among the egregious concessions to Moscow...
To say that this has been a tumultuous time in U.S.-Ukraine relations is a glaring understatement. Putin’s agreement to halt energy attacks on Ukraine on March 18—already violated by Russia—falls far short of the unconditional 30-day cease-fire proposed by the U.S. and Ukraine a week earlier.
Among the egregious, cruel, legally dubious, stupid and counterproductive actions being undertaken by the Trump administration is the unprecedented assault on foreign assistance and the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
To what extent will U.S. policy toward Ukraine change with the departure of President Joe Biden and the ascendancy of Donald Trump?..
Twenty years ago, on November 21, 2004, I was in the central Ukrainian city of Kirovohrad (now Kropyvnytsky), observing elections as part of the American contingent of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...
Forty-one years ago this Fall, some 18,000 people came from all over the United States (and some from Canada) to the capital of the United States, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of what at the time was called the Great Famine of 1932-1933, now known as the Holodomor...
