At the same time as the repression, the political and social fractures in Russia will intensify. Power wants to hide from its population the images of the bombs of the civilian neighborhoods of kyiv, Kharkov and Mariupol, but how long can he do it? Whatever the outcome of this war, I am increasly convinc that […]
Yars before com to France. My family is currently in Ukraine. My mother left Kiev last February 28, but many friends and relatives of friends still remain in the Ukrainian capital, either because they take care of elderly and sick people, or because they decid to defend their city and help those who stay there. […]
However, the latter was also damag by an explosion that occurr in front of the station on Wnesday, March 2. Driv along the route by car has become increasly dangerous, and gasoline is scarce: Russian soldiers have already destroy several oil deposits, especially in the Kiev region, and the nes of the army are now […]
hs have acquir a dynamic of their own. The Unit States and Europe act in a reactive mode in many areas. That is why it strikes me that, when talk about the dramatic processes in our corner of the world, they ruce government and business elites. We have learn everyth from the Unit States and […]
It is not play into. Putin’s hands to honestly observe that there are extremist elements among those fight him in. Ukraine: inde, only by carefully monitor – and perhaps restrict – their activities today can we ensure that they do not deepen Ukraine’s suffer in the years to come. come. For a long time, liberal. […]
Public opinion has become overwhelmly very anti-Russian. Stubb told the Spanish newspaper El País : «I have always said that NATO membership is a thermometer of Finland’s vision of Russia. Well, right now, the thermometer is incandescent. Even in the most radical and xenophobic right. The True Finns – a party some of whose visible […]
Finland was part of the Russian Empire and later had a complex relationship with the Soviet Union, it also has a very long land border with Russia. Some compare the invasion of the Ukraine to the 1939 Winter War. Many believe that someth similar to what happen to Finland is now happen to Ukraine. There […]
Misanthrope Division, a unit of Western neo-Nazis fight alongside Azov, is now post ads on Telegram urg European militants to join the stream of volunteers and connect with them in Ukraine “for victory and for Valhalla.” Like other far-right Ukrainian militias, the Azov are tenacious, disciplin and committ fighters, which is why the weak Ukrainian […]
t’s an old discussion with the tankies [the “tankist” left that justifi the Soviet invasions dur the Cold War] . In Finland, what has happen with the invasion of Ukraine is that the opinion favorable to join NATO has risen drastically. And the same th happen with the perception, among the population, that Russia is […]
Biletsky’s attempt to found a political party – National Corps – was largely unsuccessful, and even a unit bloc of right-w and far-right parties fail to pass the very low threshold for parliamentary representation in the last election: the Ukrainian electorate simply did not you want what they offer and reject their world view. But […]
The situation in both countries is somewhat different. In 1948, Finland sign the Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance with Stalin’s Soviet Union that embodi a kind of guard neutrality and last until 1992. This treaty allow Finland to maintain its independence and its democratic system despite be in a zone of Soviet geopolitical […]
They have correctly point out that the0 US help undermine the most democratic and economically progressive options in the post. Soviet transformation of Russia and elsewhere. They are right that the US and Europe have fail to create a security environment that includes Russia and other post-Soviet countries. Our countries have long had to adapt, […]