“A Russian wouldn’t be a Russian if they didn’t steal something!” an anonymous woman wryly exclaims with a hint of pride in Oksana Karpovych’s Berlinale-premiering Intercepted, a probing...
“Everything has to burn, so that we live in the future not in the past.” These words come not from the Kremlin but from the elderly mother of filmmaker Svitlana Lishchynska, one of the four...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the king of empty threats. Very few policy makers in the West still take his warnings and fearmongering rhetoric seriously. As a result, the Ukraine war could soon...
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame In April 2024, during Passover, a group of American rabbis approached a border crossing in Israel. Affiliated with Rabbis for Ceasefire, the group joined Jewish...
The United States’ decision to provide military aid to Kyiv did not prevent Russia from launching an offensive aiming to capture parts of Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. The Kremlin reportedly hopes to...
After months of stalling, the US House has approved a $61 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine. The Eastern European nation is expected to get weapons that could help it inflict serious losses...
Speaking in his first interview from behind the walls of the Israeli maximum security Megiddo prison in 2007, Marwan Hasib Ibrahim Barghouti’s spirit does not seem to have aged a day. He is defiant...
“We demonstrated weakness, and the weak get beaten”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in September 2004 after Chechen terrorists, under the command of Shamil Basayev, occupied a school in...
A one-page document submitted by Prime Minister Netanyahu to his cabinet in February provides no answers to the question of when Israel would consider its military objectives in Gaza met. It does,...
Ever since Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive failed to achieve the expected result, Western media and officials have been repeatedly accusing Russia of planning to invade neighboring European...
