John Foster / 18 Nov 2022
The Forever War Comes Home
Ukraine and American Strategy
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues with no end in sight.(...)
Russia
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
Zhenia Perutska / 16 Sep 2022
Resisting Russia
Learning Anti-Colonialism in Ukraine
In school, we’d always have two different classes for Ukrainian and foreign literature.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Sep 2022
Life Under Gorbachev
The End of the USSR
When Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR in 1985, I was studying Russian at university.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022
Odesa Mama
Utopia by the Sea
The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)
Joel Schalit / 13 Jun 2022
End of An Era
The Battleground’s Summer Books List
“No more blood.” The graffiti has been there for as long as I can remember.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 07 May 2022
How to Read Russia
First Person Lessons
The sudden reset in Russia relations has thrown everything up in the air.(...)
John Foster / 29 Apr 2022
Assessing Russia’s War
Lavrov’s Nuclear Threat
After two months of war, the Kremlin is finally owning up to the crisis it’s caused.(...)