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Sep 30, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Aaron James Wendland |Volodymyr Yermolenko |Federico Finchelstein |Mitchell Abidor
“St. Jerome in a Dark Chamber” (1642) | Rembrandt van Rijn / Public DomainThis lecture was delivered as part of a benefit conference for the Ukrainian academy that Aaron James Wendland organized in March 2023 at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Volodymyr Yermolenko
The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to support public outreach at Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The topic of my speech is: What is it like thinking in dark times? What does it mean? It is an echo of the podcast series I launched within our podcast, “Explaining Ukraine,” one of the most widely listened-to podcasts in English about Ukraine.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
visegradinsight.eu | Volodymyr Yermolenko
The surrealist Marxism of the Soviet Union laid the foundation for contemporary Russia’s military-industrial complex. 61 percent of Ukrainians have a negative attitude towards Stalin; only 4 percent have a positive one. In Russia, the ratio is reversed: 60 percent have a positive attitude (from respect to admiration), and 11 percent have a negative one. These figures illustrate the different paths the Ukrainian and Russian societies have taken in recent decades.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
nacion.com | Volodymyr Yermolenko
Al entrar a Izium, giramos a la derecha desde la carretera principal. Hay un camino con casas a la izquierda y un bosque a la derecha. Es un hermoso pinar, y el sol atraviesa los altos árboles formando un juego extraordinario de luz y sombras. Pero no es un simple bosque. Es uno de los lugares más horribles de esta guerra. Adentrándonos un poco más, empezamos a ver hileras de tumbas. Tumbas cavadas en el suave suelo arenoso, ni profundas ni anchas.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
lampadia.com | Volodymyr Yermolenko
Por: Volodymyr YermolenkoEl Comercio, 15 de noviembre del 2023“A pesar de los horrores de la guerra, los ucranianos intentan seguir viviendo sus vidas incluso sobre las ruinas”. Al entrar a Izium, giramos a la derecha desde la carretera principal. Hay un camino con casas a la izquierda y un bosque a la derecha. Es un hermoso pinar, y el sol atraviesa los altos árboles formando un juego extraordinario de luz y sombras. Pero no es un simple bosque. Es uno de los lugares más horribles de esta guerra.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
information.dk | Volodymyr Yermolenko
I 2003 offentliggjorde to europæiske filosoffer, Jürgen Habermas og Jacques Derrida, et fælles indlæg i Tysklands og Frankrigs førende aviser. I dette rettede de skarp kritik af den amerikanske invasion af Irak og opfordrede samtidig europæerne til at »indtage en refleksiv distance til sig selv«, især til deres historiske imperialisme og kolonialisme.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Volodymyr Yermolenko
In 2003, the philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida published a joint article in Germany’s and France’s leading newspapers. In it, they criticised the American invasion of Iraq and called on Europeans to “assume a reflexive distance from themselves”, in particular their imperialism and colonialism. The pair’s criticism of George W Bush’s imperialism was justified; and their suggestion that Europe could lead the world towards a post-imperial future was a nice idea.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
visegradinsight.eu | Volodymyr Yermolenko
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is a struggle between respect for human lives and Russia’s disregard for them, turning this conflict into a universal battle, the winner of which will shape the global world order for the next decades. A recently published memoir of a Ukrainian-born Soviet writer, Anatoliy Dimarov, “Live through and Tell” (Prozhyty I rozpovisty) contains, among many important stories, an account of one conversation with a Soviet colonel on a train.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
voxeurop.eu | Volodymyr Yermolenko
Im Jahr 2003 veröffentlichten zwei europäische Philosophen, Jürgen Habermas und Jacques Derrida, einen gemeinsamen Artikel in Deutschlands und Frankreichs führenden Zeitungen. Darin kritisierten sie die amerikanische Invasion des Irak und forderten die Europäer auf, ‚eine reflexive Distanz zu sich selbst einzunehmen‘, insbesondere zu ihrem Imperialismus und Kolonialismus.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
visegradinsight.eu | Volodymyr Yermolenko
Russia is desperate and only knows one way of demanding respect – fear. The West must stand against this ideology now or face a future with a divided Europe once again. Moshchun, a small village on the outskirts of Kyiv, has its own outskirts: the dachas. An area of several square kilometres where Ukrainians have been building their country houses, usually with their own hands, spending several years or even decades constructing a sanctuary to rest from the busy city life.
