Mychailo Antonovych Denysenko, also known as “patriarch” Filaret and the former Metropolitan of Kyiv, passed away on Friday, March 20th. Born on January 23, 1929, in the Donbas region, he lived through a century of revolutions and world wars, holding prominent ecclesiastical roles. Though virtually unknown to today’s media, he was a highly debated and […]
It’s not just a war in the trenches of Ukraine, it’s a battle for the hearts and minds of people of the post Soviet world. Moscow made it ideological, and it is determined to win it against the Rome-supported Greek Orthodox Patriarch. It usually happens in post-Soviet Russia. One runs into the sanctification of a […]
China is the elephant in the room of the Ukrainian peace talks, and the Witkoff plan looks like a way to have Russia be the winner while the US and China destroy each other. A real point of the peace plan on Ukraine is: what does China think? In fact, China is the elephant in […]
New realism ought to set in the US administration. Dialogue is essential, but handing Russia a victory it hasn’t gained could undermine the world order. On Saturday, amid widespread global criticism of a US-proposed peace plan for Ukraine, President Donald Trump stated that the plan is open for discussion. The plan, presented by Trump’s ally […]
A law regulating the presence and activities of the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate is already in force in Ukraine, under discussion in the Supreme Court in Estonia, and planned and feared in Moldova. Three years of war with Russia have made such a law acceptable in Ukraine. The theoretical danger of invasion […]
The Polish Catholic Church has a special place in modern global history, as it played a significant role in shaking the Soviet system. Poland remains crucial as the political and logistical leading supporter of Ukraine in its war effort against Russia. Still the direction of this Church, which makes so much of its national identity, […]
Is America’s recent fascination with the European far right misconstrued and risky for the US? The United States has made similar mistakes before; now might be the time to be more cautious. In 2011, I was in Washington when a well-known geopolitics expert of Jewish descent told me about America’s rising confidence in Egypt’s Muslim […]
