With international attention firmly fixed on the Russian army’s advances in eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, it is easy to overlook important developments taking place further south in Crimea. During 2024, Ukraine has achieved a number of strategic successes in and around the Russian-occupied peninsula that are worthy of closer…
Monthly Archives: October 2024
The current Russian government is confidently and purposefully turning Russia into the USSR 2.0. Total censorship, elimination of Russian opposition leaders, persecution of human rights activists, free journalists and public figures, prohibition of criticism of the government, especially the war of aggression in Ukraine – all this makes democratic ways of changing the government in…