Russia, and perhaps Ukraine, have cynically manipulated antisemitism for opportunistic political ends. It’s a disgusting practice, enough to make one’s stomach turn, and it should cease immediately. Antisemitism, an age-old phenomenon deeply ingrained in Russia and Ukraine, reared its ugly head as an issue after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven out of office […]
The new interim government in Ukraine, led by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has been acclaimed in the west as a plucky defender of freedom and liberty resisting Russian intimidation and aggression in Crimea. Last week, in a show of sympathy for Ukraine, Yatsenyuk was invited to the White House by U.S. President Barack Obama, and […]
To say that the late Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera is a divisive and polarizing figure in contemporary Ukraine would be to understate the case. More than five decades after his assassination in West Germany, allegedly at the hands of KGB agents, he inspires both adulation and loathing. Bandera’s ambivalent legacy was on martial display a few […]