The justice train from Bucha

The egregious crimes against Ukraine’s civilian population might just be too much for the International Criminal Court to handle. Not only does it lack resources but it also doesn’t have …

Datum publikace:
6. 6. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Defined by silence

The Ukrainian art that was destroyed – and the art that never happened Ukrainian artists are struggling to invent a new language to express their experience of the war, one …

Datum publikace:
30. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Vydavatelství M. J. Stránského

Save, not sacrifice!

The news that the defenders of Mariupol had left the underground of the Azovstal steelworks for Russian captivity brought no relief to their families or to Ukrainian society. If this …

Datum publikace:
30. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Lenka Víchová

Russianness is murder

A changing view of the recent past. České Budějovice decided to remove Valentina Těreškovová’s name from the list of honorary citizens of the city, where it had been since the …

Datum publikace:
23. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Tomáš Klvaňa

No limits? China, Russia and Ukraine

China’s failure to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine seems to have confirmed the two autocracies’ friendship with no limits. But China has its own stakes in the war-torn country. Ultimately, …

Datum publikace:
16. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

War and indignation

At the end of April, the world-famous German philosopher Jürgen Habermas commented in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on the attitudes of the West and Germany towards the war in Ukraine and …

Datum publikace:
16. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Süddeutsche Zeitung

Flags of survival

The Ukrainians trapped underground in besieged Mariupol steel works were instructed to wave white flags. They face a warring nation whose people once suffered a crippling war of extermination themselves. …

Datum publikace:
9. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

The Pope’s dilemma: Is even a just war madness

With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, attention has also been focused on one of the biggest global celebrities – Pope Francis. He heads a community of over a billion …

Datum publikace:
9. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Tomáš Petráček

Ukraine: A battleground for Europe’s future

For Ukrainians, this uneven battle is about the survival of their nation. However, it is also about the future of democracy in Europe as a whole. The unprecedented act of …

Datum publikace:
2. 5. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Of fish and people

Belarusian and Ukrainian intellectuals have been applying postcolonial theory to Russia since the 1990s. But they have largely been ignored in the West. Now it is time to listen to …

Datum publikace:
25. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Why (even successful) Tibetans burn themselves to death

The recent case of the self-immolation of a young Tibetan pop singer reveals extremely clearly what drives young Tibetans to such protests, despite the significant improvement in material conditions in …

Datum publikace:
19. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
Kamila Hladíková

Conflict, commitment and fear

War polarizes debate. And the sympathies of post-Soviet migrants living in Central Europe have come under extra scrutiny since war broke out in Ukraine. A closer look at the immigrant …

Datum publikace:
19. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Real refugees, fake refugees

After pushing back Middle Eastern refugees into the forests on its northern border with Belarus, Poland is now welcoming an unprecedented number of displaced Ukrainians. Deep racial and gender stereotypes …

Datum publikace:
11. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Cancel culture vs. execute culture

Why Russian manuscripts don’t burn, but Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well Rather than debating what to do with Russian culture, western intellectuals need to talk about how to prevent …

Datum publikace:
11. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

How Putin found God

It was a sodden spring day in May 2009. A small group of men trooped solemnly across a leafy cemetery in central Moscow. The priest in flowing black robes was …

Datum publikace:
4. 4. 2022
Autor článku:
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