Two weeks ago we started our series on the Ukrainian Diaspora with Mychailo Wynnyckyi and Christiana Santore. The Ukrainian Diaspora as a Third Front is still our main topic of interest. Tonight we want to clarify the concept of diaspora itself.
Recently Orysya Bila made, on a conference on the future of Ukraine, a short but insightful statement on the difference (more…)
Recently Orysya Bila made, on a conference on the future of Ukraine, a short but insightful statement on the difference between Russian and Ukrainian values. In this episode of Don’t give up Ukraine! we are going to discuss this statement.
The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendents who live outside Ukraine around the world. Today more than twenty million (more…)
The Ukrainian diaspora comprises Ukrainians and their descendents who live outside Ukraine around the world. Today more than twenty million Ukrainians live outside Ukraine. You can find them all over the world in post-Soviet states, as well as in other countries such as Poland, the United States, Canada, Brazil and, for example, the Netherlands.
Orysya Bila, Ruud Meij Today the G7 assembles on the historical ground of Schloss Elmau, a hundred miles or so south of Munich. Of course, our thoughts go back to…
Friday, June 3, is Day 100 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Friday it will also be 100 days since (more…)
How to make sense of the Russian brutal invasion, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine? Should we see (more…)
How to make sense of the Russian brutal invasion, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine? Should we see it as a geo-political struggle for power and influence? Should we see it as a hunger for land and economic gain? Or is something different, more uncanny at stake?
On June 23 we welcome as our guest in Don’t Give Up Ukraine! Professor Alexander Etkind. Professor Etkind is author of a number of books on Russia. We will discuss two of his books which are especially relevant to the brutal war that is now going on in Ukraine.
Against the background of the war in Ukraine tonight we discuss classical Ukrainian literature with Elena Oranskaia and Dmytro Lytvynenko. (more…)
Against the background of the war in Ukraine tonight we discuss classical Ukrainian literature with Elena Oranskaia and Dmytro Lytvynenko. Elena Oranskaia argues that classical Ukrainian literatuur from Skovoroda to Lesya Ukraïnka was ahead of its time.