Author: Natalia Antonova

A friend who was forced to flee the city of Kharkiv — a city of Russian-speakers that fascist Russian Vladimir Putin has sought to “liberate” by bombing civilians — recently said, “It’s...

Driven by revenge for a strike against his expensive Crimean bridge, Putin unleashed a barrage of attacks on Ukraine this week. Many of the people I love were caught up in it. The first words I heard...

Russia is mobilizing as Putin continues to lose his “three-day war” in Ukraine — and as someone who lived and worked in Russia for years, I must beg everyone else to do the following: Stop...

The Lord of the Rings is back and, in the first episode of the Rings of Power, it’s hard to tear your eyes from the massive pile of elven helmets left on the battlefield, as crows caw in the...

Mikhail Gorbachev was my first introduction to politics. I was very small, in a car being driven by my father, squashed in the backseat between relatives. Everyone was loudly arguing about Gorbachev...

I believe that nobody can really keep their cool when faced with the grotesque and the impossible. But after losing your cool, you can find it again. This is the hero’s real test — how to go on....

Not content with sitting on the sidelines during the Fossils Saying Stupid Things About Ukraine parade, former UK Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has given an interview to a pro-Russian, Beirut-based...

This week, I came across a story so bizarre that not even its shocking headline could quite do it justice: “How an Unqualified Sex Worker Allegedly Infiltrated a Top Air Force Lab” (spare me the...

This week, NATO accession protocols for Finland and Sweden were signed at a ceremony in Brussels. Putin’s brutal attack on Ukraine has had a number of unintended consequences — and this is one of...

A few days ago, Ukrainian activist and soldier Roman Ratushniy was laid to rest in the city of my birth, Kyiv. Roman and I didn’t know each other, but my father knew him and spoke admiringly of his...