Boris Bondarev has written an in-depth account of his decision to resign, as well as delivered a broad condemnation of the country Russia has become after two decades of increasingly autocratic rule by Vladimir Putin.
In the 20 September 1939 Evening Standard, the cartoonist David Low famously depicted Stalin and Hitler greeting each other. There is a dead body lying between them and dark clouds gathering in the background.
By Sergej Sumlenny, political analyst and a former Director of Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Ukraine
Photo by Ukrinform
Germany still denies its historical debt towards Ukraine, preferring to exclusively remember Ukrainian collaborators. This is a wrong and amoral approach.
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