New York is a strategically important place on the Donbas front line, the site of a defensive fortification on Ukraine’s Mannerheim Line. There is constant fighting here, as a result of which its material form is inexorably disappearing from the face of the earth. Russian bombs have annihilated its economic potential.
Oksana Zabuzhko’s groundbreaking novel ‘Field Work in Ukrainian Sex’ addressed gender issues and national trauma, while Yuri Andrukhovych’s ‘Recreations’ explored Ukraine’s cultural positioning between Eastern and Western influences. Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry and prose captured the gritty realities of post-Soviet transition, particularly in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s rich literary heritage suffered systematic suppression under Soviet rule. The policy of Russification meant that Ukrainian writers were often forced to write in Russian or face severe consequences. The “Executed Renaissance” of the 1920s-30s saw an entire generation of Ukrainian intellectuals and writers eliminated through Stalin’s purges.
We sit in the bus recalling how ten years ago, we had to abandon South Sudan to seek calm in Sudan. Here we are again, on the road back to South Sudan, fleeing death. Now we are in a bus bound for safety, but perhaps to the jaws of old death waiting.
True to Dugin’s words the only thing that has happened to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union is the steady growth of its territorial size. There are plenty of examples. Starting with Georgia,
More than anything UAE is the beacon of hope for a world where competing interests could coexist. Let’s look at how UAE, the tiny Middle Eastern power, has hedged its bets under the leadership of MBZ.
There is a concentrated, well-coordinated pushback against the American cultural influence by the entirety of the global south and some of the central and eastern European states. Those pushbacks come in both cultural and religious sense
BY Nadeera DICKWELLA Summary “Sri Lanka has just elected a new president. Despite the support by many parties Dullas Alahapperuma could not succeed. This is an analysis to see whether his defeat […]
By Nadeera Dickwella The French Election has become much more important than just another European Election. The very reason is one outcome in particular could have earth shattering impacts beyond the shores of continental Europe. If incumbent President […]
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