Editor in chief

Editor in chief:  Said Batrouni

PEN Name:  Marcos Fidel

Language and Culture: Reflections on Slavic and Western European Traditions

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The relationship between language and culture is intimate and reciprocal. Each shapes the other over […]

29.11.2025

Power in Kyiv after Yermak

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The sudden resignation of Andriy Yermak from his position as Head of the Office of […]

29.11.2025

The Conditions of Political Prisoners in Belarus

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The plight of political prisoners in Belarus has become one of the most troubling human […]

29.11.2025

Routes Home: How Ukrainians in Occupied Territories May Reach Free Ukraine

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor For millions of Ukrainians living under Russian occupation since 2014, and especially since the full-scale […]

29.11.2025

“Woke” and Soviet Ideological Repression

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The term woke has travelled far from its origins. Once a quiet expression in African […]

29.11.2025

Belgian resistance to EU plans to use Russian frozen assets for Ukraine’s war effort

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Belgium’s opposition to ambitious European Union plans for the use of frozen Russian assets is […]

29.11.2025

The Russian deportation of Ukrainian children

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The forced deportation of Ukrainian children from territories under Russian occupation represents one of the […]

29.11.2025

The Su-57 Felon

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The Sukhoi Su-57, known in NATO terminology as the ‘Felon’, represents Russia’s most ambitious attempt […]

29.11.2025

Are the Ukrainian Police adequately resourced?

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Ukraine’s police now work in circumstances that would overwhelm almost any civilian law-enforcement agency. They […]

29.11.2025

The downfall of Andriy Yermak

By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor On 28 November 2025 investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the […]

28.11.2025