Good Jew, Bad Jew: new book explores why the west views brutality against Ukrainians and Palestinians differently: In a recently published book Steven Friedman, who has written extensively on the political and social aspects of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, explores the racist underpinnings of the west’s responses to Israel’s war in Gaza. This is …
Why many Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language: President Putin at an annual ceremony marking the Kyivian Rus. Sodel Vladyslav/Shutterstock The issue of the Ukrainian language and who speaks it has become highly politicised during the Russian invasion. Vladimir Putin has even used it as a cover to annex some occupied areas of Ukraine …
Ukrainians are not willing to give up territory or sovereignty – new survey: Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the north-east of Ukraine appeared to take everyone by surprise, not least Russia’s war planners who had been moving troops south to meet an offensive in the Kherson region which Ukraine had been trumpeting about for several weeks. Ukraine’s …
Ukraine: Russian attitudes to Ukrainians can help to explain the atrocities: EPA-EFE/Anatoly Maltsev Speaking to journalist Sophie Raworth on the BBC’s Sunday Morning show recently, former war crimes prosecutor Sir Howard Morrison, now an advisor to the Ukraine government, highlighted the dangers posed by the negative – often insulting and dehumanising – statements made by …
How a makeshift PoW chapel from WWII continues to connect Ukrainians and Britons: Anne/Flickr, CC BY-SA On the outside, it is a shabby corrugated iron hut. But 70 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, this small shed in a rural southern corner of Scotland became a place of worship for a …
South Africa in the news: Pirates snatch 6 Ukrainians from cargo ship off Nigeria’s coast: The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has confirmed that six Ukrainian nationals were among the crew members abducted off the coast of Nigeria from the Cameroon-flagged STEVIA cargo ship.: “South Africa” – BingNews Big squads needed to combat ‘bubble fatigue’, says Ian …