Ukraine

When I first left home to go to Uni, Latvia became home for three years of my studies. Riga didn’t look that different to Lviv— old buildings, cosy coffee shops, grumpy faces on public transport, well-groomed ladies. If not for the language, cheesecakes (Latvian ones more likely to be non-baked)…

Adapting democracy to the invasion — For more than three decades, USAID has supported parliaments and legislative bodies around the world in its work to promote government responsiveness and accountability. Despite important markers of progress, the last decade has brought a new wave of authoritarianism in countries all around the globe — a disturbing trend seen…

Hi FB! I’ll start out by drawing your attention to two news items out of Russia, one with a video and one with a photograph. The video is from Buryatia, where a group of 30 women got in front of a camera to complain their husbands have been gone for…

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. The removal of Erdoğan’s objection was reportedly obtained via…

broken prayers rise like incense burning in the night souls aflame bodies burning we hide our faces buried in graves made from hands crying out in the dark while the wheels of violence grind and turn inevitable monotonous mindless hatred dropping from the skies above broken homes broken dreams breaking will to breathe…

Rostyslav Dyuk, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies (UAFIC) The war changed the life of every Ukrainian. No one was prepared for it and no one realized the scale of the problems we would face. All attempts by the aggressor to break the…