The Current Situation

Ukrainian pianist plays the piano in her bombed-out home one last time

In the video above, Irina Maniukhina, a professional pianist in Bila Tserkva, a town 80 km (50 miles) south of…

4 years ago

Happy Wednesday — I hope yours is going better than Stepan’s!

This is Stepan, a cat with an amusing Instagram account (@loveyoustepan). Under normal circumstances, he lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Here’s…

4 years ago

A whole lot of links on Trump, Putin, Russia, and Ukraine

For your edification, here’s a selection of links that illustrate Trump’s being a Putin fanboy, the Republican Party’s and alt-right’s…

4 years ago

Russia has a “burn book”, and San Marino is somehow in it!

Russia has a “burn book”! Okay, it’s more of an “enemies list”, but I choose to view it as a…

4 years ago

A little Ukrainian girl sings “Let It Go” to her fellow refugees in a shelter

A moment of brightness in a dark time. Thanks to Tony Pierce for the find!

4 years ago

It’s time to talk about the racist coverage of the Ukraine crisis

  The reportage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis has unearthed some ugly truths that are worth discussing. Accidentally saying the…

4 years ago

March is a bad month for Russian leaders (or: Happy Stalin’s Death Day!)

In a recent tweet, Odile Turcu reminded us that “Generally speaking, March is a bad month for Russian leaders”. She backed…

4 years ago

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a public resource for mapping, documenting, and verifying significant incidents that happen in the Russian…

4 years ago

The gun fantasy and the gun reality

I know that the current situation in Ukraine has a lot of American firearms enthusiasts excited (and hey; guns are…

4 years ago