Soviet Union

Monuments in times of war

‘Multi-ethnic’ or ‘diverse’?

Ukraine’s fading ethnic differences

Humouring imperialism

Strategies of unimaginable crime

On the battlefront of history

Tsars, spies and colonialism

The Soviet legacy of rape and denial

The crimes of Bucha have a long history

Flags of survival

Fluid feelings

L’Homme 2/2021

Memorial and the liberating power of history

Prisoners of conscience

A conversation with Myroslav Marynovych

The artistic liberalism of the Bolsheviks

New Literary Observer 170 (2021)

My personal history of independence

Ukraine turns 30

Prisons in memoriam

Towards ‘Island Russia’

Shifting the wall further east

Kundera’s tragedy of ‘central Europe’ three decades later