The film Battle for Sevastopol excels in illustrating the life of a legendary Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko and the ordeal she endured. However, it is questionable whether the film has fulfilled the director’s hope of reuniting Russians and Ukrainians in the narrative of “common history.”
Kelly Rahardja sits down with Evgeny Afineevsky, director of Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. His documentary about the 2013-14 Maidan protests in Ukraine won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Is Donbas more trouble than it’s worth? Matt Korda investigates why neither the Ukrainians nor the Russians seem keen to prop up the region.
The persecution of Tatars in the Russian-occupied Crimea reflects the cold truth that history has repeated itself in Crimea today.
Matt Korda explores the sinister side of Putin’s newest presidential decree.
Excerpt: As the Ukraine crisis has demonstrated, we should not assume that freedom of information necessarily leads to a more open or democratic society. Information can be harnessed and manipulated by authoritarian regimes in order to generate confusion and undermine trust in government, often with unpredictable and destabilizing effects on society.
As tensions continue to escalate in Eastern Europe over the Ukrainian conflict, Jonas argues that Canada should not shirk its military responsibilities towards the NATO mission.
Matt Korda compares two air disasters, MH17 and Iran Air Flight 655, and points out some crucial differences in the culpable countries’ responses.
In the wake of an ever persistent threat to security by Russian expansionist ambitions, are European nations prepared for a Casus foederis??
In Part Two of a three-part series, Jenny examines more closely Russia’s information warfare, and the influence media had in the 2014 Ukrainian Crisis.