Author: Natalia Antonova

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...

The story of Michael Lowe — held in a filthy jail for 17 days after someone at American Airlines misidentified him as a shoplifter — should shock you and make you angry, but it should also serve...

The latest jerk to claim that Ukraine should give up territory in exchange for peace is noted war criminal Henry Kissinger — invited to speak at Davos for some reason, in a long and noble tradition...

A Swedish-Russian woman, Eugenia Karlsson, became the internet’s latest target for public shaming after she was captured unleashing a horrific tirade on a Ukrainian in Stockholm: I don’t believe...

This week, I did a panel at George Washington University, hosted by the Organization of Slavic Studies. My co-panelists were career Ukrainian diplomat Kateryna Smagliy and prominent Ukrainian...