DIPLOMACY AND NOSTALGIA Ukraine's new ambassador urges South Africa to step up as peace mediator amid ongoing conflict 8 min 2 By Peter Fabricius
GEOPOLITICS A not-so-happy anniversary — Ukraine turns 34 in the midst of a brutal war 7 min 1 By J Brooks Spector
GEOPOLITICS ANALYSIS The Trump administration’s rebellion against history and common sense 8 min 2 By J Brooks Spector
WAR IN EUROPE OP-ED Re-establishing the facts against Russia’s narrative on its invasion of Ukraine 4 min 17 By EU ambassadors to South Africa
FREEDOM FLIGHTS OP-ED The critical role of South African aircrews in supporting the 1944 Warsaw Rising 4 min 1 By Adam Burakowski
WAR IN EUROPE AD 2024 as 1938 – Why a Russian victory would be bad for most Africans 10 min 12 By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
ANC & RUSSIA ANALYSIS To Russia with Love and Hopeless Devotion, from Fikile Mbalula and the ANC 7 min 73 By Peter Fabricius
FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY OP-ED Vytautas Landsbergis, the pianist who helped to sink the Soviet Union 10 min 3 By Greg Mills
LEFT FIELD Cold warning – neos and unis will be no more in the ANC’s new bipolar world order 5 min 1 By Shaun de Waal
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING Tetris — How the puzzle game escaped Soviet Russia in 1988 4 min 0 By Noelle Adams
RIGHT OF REPLY The Brenthurst Foundation’s Greg Mills and Ray Hartley did a hatchet job on me, cynically spinning what I said 6 min 8 By Ronnie Kasrils
INTERNATIONAL VILLAIN OF THE YEAR 2022 Vladimir Putin assumes wicked character role in an explosion of Soviet myths 5 min 3 By J Brooks Spector
GEOPOLITICS The new age of authoritarianism, wedded to technological power, portends a rough ride ahead 9 min 4 By J Brooks Spector
1930's GENOCIDE OP-ED Remember the Holodomor — Russia repeats its murderous history in Ukraine 4 min 7 By Liubov Abravitova
DICTATORS’ BLUEPRINT Putin and the populist playbook: A lesson for democracies 4 min 0 By Leopoldo López
ANALYSIS Russia’s war on Ukraine stirs ghosts of past catastrophic conflicts 11 min 4 By J Brooks Spector
THE LAST SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022): The mysteries of a revolutionary reformer revealed in death 9 min 0 By J Brooks Spector
Mikhail Gorbachev dies Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91 3 min 1 By Reuters
