The Wagner Group Explained
July 7, 2023
John Mauceri— Among the many confusions about the private Russian army known as the Wagner Group is how to pronounce its name. Reporters and pundits seem to vacillate between “Wag-ner”… READ MORE
Tag: Ukraine
Sky Above Kharkiv: A Conversation with Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler
May 16, 2023
In Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Front, Ukraine’s beloved literary and activist voice Serhiy Zhadan provides an intimate account of resistance and survival in the earliest months of… READ MORE
The Russia-Ukraine Crisis: A Reading List
February 25, 2022
To better understand the Russia-Ukraine crisis, we have put together a list of the most relevant books that shed light on the history, socio-economic and political relations of these two… READ MORE
The Orphanage (Revisited)
December 16, 2021
Earlier this year, Yale University Press published the excerpt below from The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan, translated from the Ukrainian by Reilly Costigan-Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. We are revisiting this piece today… READ MORE
Needed: A New Security Order for Eastern Europe
June 24, 2021
Michael O’Hanlon— On his trip to Europe in June of 2021, President Biden faced a question that he would likely have preferred to avoid: should Ukraine be invited to join… READ MORE
Orthodox Disunity in Ukraine
November 5, 2015
“Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you should be in agreement and that there should be no… READ MORE
Ukraine between East and West: The Case of Galicia
August 12, 2015
Iryna Vushko— In the twenty-first century, the streets of L’viv in Western Ukraine beam with life. The central squares and coffee shops, packed with people into the wee hours of… READ MORE
Whatever Happened in Ukraine?
November 5, 2014
Andrew Wilson— America voted in its mid-terms yesterday. Meanwhile, far-off Ukraine has held no less than two elections in a week, one in Ukraine as a whole and one in… READ MORE
Angry Birds: Russian Censorship of the Arts
August 19, 2014
Janice Ross— “Ballerinas dance anti-Putin Swan Lake in Odessa.” The headline sounds like a set-up for a sketch comedy routine but it was deadly earnest. This past May, four Ukranian… READ MORE
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