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1 month ago | 
cepa.org | Leon Mangasarian |Kateryna Odarchenko |Radu Tudor |Alison Mutler
Donald Trump’s shift towards Russia’s position on Ukraine, if maintained, will force Friedrich Merz’s victorious Christian Democrats to make painful and historic policy shifts on German military leadership in Europe, debt-financed defense spending, the deployment of troops to Ukraine and nuclear deterrence. A day after his qualified victory in German’s general election, Merz faces more of a revolution than a Zeitenwende, the turning point declared by his predecessor three years ago.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Kateryna Odarchenko |Radu Tudor |Alison Mutler |Francis Harris
If Ukrainian popular sentiment is anything to go by, then the Trump administration’s demands, echoing those of the Kremlin, run into a wall of opposition. According to the latest data, only 15% of Ukrainians support elections during the war, while 69% favor President Zelenskyy remaining in office until the end of martial law. That’s not to say that trust in the government is overwhelming. It isn’t.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Kateryna Odarchenko
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we are joined by Michael Kugelman, Director of the Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute. He discusses the continued unrest in Pakistan and the deadly clashes in the capital Islamabad between security forces and supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
medium.com | Kateryna Odarchenko
Kateryna Odarchenko·Follow3 min read·--Propaganda has always been a powerful instrument, capable of both mobilizing societies and inciting hatred and violence. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ book Not in God’s Name explores the philosophical and historical manipulation of religion and disinformation that underpin Nazi propaganda.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
newsindiatimes.com | Kateryna Odarchenko
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Kateryna Odarchenko |Veronika Puhach |Walter C. Clemens |Aliide Naylor
The Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has called on all states to view Patriarch Kirill and his church’s leadership as extensions of Vladimir Putin’s regime and to treat them as complicit in its war crimes and crimes against humanity. The church is: “An ideological extension of Vladimir Putin’s regime complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity conducted in the name of the Russian Federation and the Russkiy Mir ideology,” it stated. It’s easy to find supporting evidence.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Kateryna Odarchenko
On the first day of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces advanced from annexed Crimea into Ukraine's Kherson region, swiftly seizing control of the territory. While Ukraine’s counteroffensive has since liberated the western bank of the Dnipro River, more than half a million residents remain under Russian occupation on the eastern side, where the front lines remain fiercely contested.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Kateryna Odarchenko
Kateryna Odarchenko·Follow3 min read·--Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, left; Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, center, and state Sen. Bill Eigel. Source: Kansas CityThe Republican primary for Missouri governor in 2024 has been anything but ordinary. Three major candidates — Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, and State Senator Bill Eigel — each received a nod of approval from none other than Donald Trump.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Giorgi Revishvili |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Kateryna Odarchenko |Elena Davlikanova
History is at the very heart of Russia’s war on Ukraine, with Russian President Vladimir Putin frequently using historical narratives to justify the invasion. Western academia can help combat the Kremlin’s weaponization of the past by paying significantly more attention to the field of Ukrainian history. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began ten years ago with the seizure of Crimea, history has been a key battleground.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Kateryna Odarchenko |Elena Davlikanova |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Olesya Khromeychuk
Ukraine conducted one of the largest and most effective drone attacks of the entire war in the early hours of September 18, causing a blast at a weapons depot deep inside Russia that was large enough to be picked up by earthquake monitoring stations. According to Ukrainian sources, the attack involved more than one hundred domestically produced long-range Ukrainian drones and targeted a major Russian arms storage facility in Toropets, a town in Russia’s Tver region northwest of Moscow.
