Author: Adrian Karmazyn

WASHINGTON – One of Ukraine’s assets in responding to Russia’s full-scale invasion has been its ability to present its perspectives directly to the Western world through a seemingly large number of English-speaking officials, experts and ordinary citizens who have been featured in international reporting on the war. Still, despite making great strides over the past...

WASHINGTON – In the age of social media, consumers around the globe struggle with the challenge of determining the credibility of posts in their online newsfeeds. What sources can individuals trust? How do they know if a news story that someone shared on Facebook or Twitter is factual, fair and balanced? For Ukrainians, the problem...

WASHINGTON – Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought mass destruction and death to cities throughout Ukraine, but the massacre of hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, some 15 miles northwest of Kyiv, stands as one of the most horrendous atrocities committed by Russian forces during the war and serves as a stark example of...

WASHINGTON – Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine has impacted the country’s economy in numerous ways, including by precipitously diminishing the wealth of Ukraine’s notoriously rich oligarchs. Prior to 2022 many of them came to symbolize the worst manifestations of corruption and tax evasion in Ukraine. To hide their ill-gotten gains, some oligarchs clandestinely channeled their...

WASHINGTON – Students at Tufts University in Boston are currently learning about Ukraine from one of the country’s top experts on international relations. Volodymyr Dubovyk, an associate professor at Odesa Mechnikov National University, is a visiting professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts and continues to lecture online to his students...

WASHINGTON – Did you know that Lesia Ukrainka’s youngest sister, Izydora, immigrated to the United States in 1949, where she was affiliated with the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences? Are you aware that the first monument in the world dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor was erected in the Canadian city of Edmonton in...

WASHINGTON – “No country, no population has been as heavily targeted” by Russian disinformation as have Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, Jonathan Katz, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund (GMF), said during a virtual Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine online discussion on February 8 about countering Moscow’s information warfare. Although it is Russia...