“My whole life has been a road to prison”, recalls Joseph Zissels, a Ukrainian public figure and human rights activist of Jewish origin. In the 1970s, he was an active participant in the Ukrainian dissident movement and joined the Ukrainian...

This episode of “Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others” features Hugues Mingarelli, former EU ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019.

The town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, formerly known as Artemivsk before decommunisation in Ukraine, was already an area of confrontation between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russia-backed militants in 2014. The battles continued for several months back then,...

Our next episode of Ukraine Through the Eyes of Others features Andreas Umland, a political scientist specializing in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian history, regime transitions, and a wide range of topics in post-Soviet studies. His extensive body of work spans...