Editor in chief
Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Lost in Lviv on New Year’s Eve
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 31 August 2025 Snow had been falling over Lviv since early afternoon, soft at […]
Towards another Russian banking crisis?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 29 December 2025 Russia’s banking system has not looked like a classic emerging market […]
Might computers conclude that humans are inefficient?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 28 December 2025 The idea that computers might one day judge humanity to be […]
Shadow vessels and the law of the High Seas
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 28 December 2025 Modern maritime law rests on an understanding that the high seas […]
Russia’s probiv market: leaked lives for sale
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 28 December 2025 In contemporary Russia there exists a parallel information economy known colloquially […]
The death of Stanislav Orlov
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 28 December 2025 The death of Stanislav Orlov (known as “the Spaniard”) on 4 […]
Ukrainian people – from the perspective of foreign visitors
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 26 December 2025 Foreigners arrive in Ukraine with expectations shaped by headlines, maps and […]
Creating a demilitarised zone in the Donbas
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 24 December 2025 President Zelenskyy’s suggestion today that a demilitarised zone in the Donbas […]
Corruption in Ukrainian conscription
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 24 December 2025 Corruption surrounding mobilisation in wartime Ukraine has never been a single, […]
Dr Strangelove
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 24 December 2025 In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold-war farce, Dr. Strangelove or: How I […]
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