Author: Eugene Czolij

Disinformation is an instrument for deliberately propagating false information with the intent to mislead. Therefore, disinformation and its sources should not be treated in the same way as fact-based news reporting. Disinformation is not one of the sides of a story. It is a falsehood that must not be accorded equal standing in a news...

This month marks both the ninth year of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine that started on February 20, 2014, when Russia’s “little green men” invaded Crimea. It also marks the first year of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022, and – according to the Kremlin and several Western pseudo experts...

Russia is a state supporter of terrorism as it both supports individuals and entities that have carried out terrorist activities against Ukraine and engages in such activities itself. Indeed, Russia’s military and mercenaries, supported by the state, are resorting to summary executions, torture, sexual violence, starvation, nuclear sabre-rattling and targeted missile and kamikaze drone attacks...

Over the last year, numerous political pundits have opined on various aspects of Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine, including on the critical question of when it will end. Russia’s war against Ukraine has already caused an enormous humanitarian crisis, disrupted the global economy and it constitutes today the most serious threat to international security and...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries and Israel have the weapons to enable Ukraine to impose a no-fly zone and stop a genocide, which would create a substantially better and safer world. So why have they still not delivered those weapons to Ukraine? Why is Germany willing to send its Patriot missile defense system...

In the words of U.S. President Joe Biden, spoken on February 24, Russia launched a genocidal war against Ukraine “to wipe out even the idea of being Ukrainian.” Since then, Russia has fired more than 3,500 missiles at Ukraine’s cities and towns, and the world has witnessed with consternation a devastation in Ukraine unseen in...

As part of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the Russian navy’s blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports has prevented some 20 million tons of Ukraine’s grain to be exported to needy countries, despite the fact that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme issued the following alarming warning:...

Bullied by Russia, Germany intensely negotiated with Canada a sanctions exemption pertaining to Nord Stream 1 gas turbines included in Canada’s sanctions regime that is governed by its Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations adopted in response to Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine.  Nord Stream 1 is a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany operated by...

After World War II, the international community made a critical commitment to “never again” allow the atrocities committed during that war to be repeated. Indeed, the web site of the United Nations articulates that commitment as follows: “The Genocide Convention was the first human rights treaty adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations...

On May 8, the international community commemorates Victory in Europe Day, or V-E Day, marking the official signing in Berlin of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies, and remembers all those who have fallen in defending liberty and democracy during World War II, including millions of Ukrainians. Russia commemorates this day on May 9...

On April 14, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a declaration on genocide being committed by Russia in Ukraine. Can the atrocities committed by Russia in Ukraine since February 24 really be called genocide? Article 2 of the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide – also known as the Genocide...

Images of dead civilians lying on the streets of the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, with their hands tied behind their backs, shocked the international community and shamed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apologists, including all of those who had felt sympathy for the “young demoralized Russian soldiers,” as these atrocities were committed...