Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Kirill Dmitriev
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev was born on 12 April 1975 in Kyiv, then part of the […]
Ukraine and the West: Scientific Cooperation
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Cooperation between Ukraine and the West in the fields of science, technology, higher education, research […]
Sale of Gold Reserves by the Bank of Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Since the outbreak of full-scale hostilities between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, the Bank […]
Might Chechnya be the first to break away from Russia?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Speculation about the integrity of the Russian Federation has become commonplace as the war in […]
Peace Agreements and Sausages
By Matthew Parish Otto von Bismarck, that gruff connoisseur of political reality, reportedly observed that laws are like sausages: it […]
The Dialects of the Ukrainian Language and Their Historical Origins
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The Ukrainian language, like all long-established vernaculars spoken across large and varied territories, is a […]
The US attempt to remove the President of Venezuela
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor The recent history of Venezuela has been marked by profound political polarisation, economic collapse, and […]
Let us Pray for an Imperfect Truce
By Matthew Parish The history of wars seldom concludes with the neat finality imagined by diplomats or generals. Conflicts shaped […]
Kyiv’s Perspective on the Twenty-Eight Points
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Rumours of a twenty-eight-point peace plan circulating between Washington and Moscow oblige Kyiv to read […]
The Dismantling of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine
By Matthew Parish The International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine (ILDU) was born amidst the dramatic upheavals of 2022 […]



