On the island of Belene, Bulgarian communism’s forgotten prison
By Francesca Barca, Hugo Dos Santos
The USSR called the occupation of Central and Eastern Europe a ‘liberation’ – Russia is committing the same crime in Ukraine
By Sergey Lebedev
Russia’s “Great Patriotic War”: a Kremlin propaganda tool against Ukraine and “Eurofascism”
By Hanna Perekhoda - Valigia Blu
Olha Mukha: ‘For a long time, the West refused to acknowledge Russia’s colonial and imperial character’
By Kaja Puto - Krytyka Polityczna (Warsaw)
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Andrei Kurkov: ‘We needed a war to show that Ukraine is different from Russia’
By Andrea Pipino - Internazionale (Rome)
A year after Russia’s invasion the West finally discovers what Ukrainians stand for
By Anton Shekhovtsov