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Plague in Russia: death of a researcher, quarantine of 200 people, and WHO questions to the anti-plague institute — what is known and is there a threat to Israel

On October 8, 2026, the World Health Organization still does not have complete information about the death of 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Russian anti-plague institute in Irkutsk. The woman died of severe pneumonia, nearly 200 people who had contact with her were quarantined or under medical observation, and Russian authorities claim that […]

The Raphael Lemkin Society investigates how Russia is turning Ukrainian museums in temporarily occupied territories into a tool for rewriting memory

Общество Рафаэля Лемкина исследует, как Россия превращает украинские музеи на временно оккупированных территориях в инструмент переписывания памяти

Raphael Lemkin gave the world the word “genocide”. A Polish-Jewish lawyer who studied in Lviv, he lost 49 relatives, including his parents, during the Holocaust. Later, his work became one of the intellectual foundations of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. But for Ukrainian history, Lemkin’s name has another […]

Not only ‘Galicia’: Russian national formations in the service of the Third Reich and the uncomfortable memory of World War II

Russian propaganda has been using World War II as a political weapon for decades. When it needs to attack Ukraine, it repeatedly recalls the SS Division ‘Galicia’, the battalions ‘Nachtigall’ and ‘Roland’, Ukrainian nationalism, individual episodes of collaborationism, and wartime crimes. But as soon as it comes to Russian formations that served the Third Reich, […]

Ukraine, the Horde, and ‘reverse colonialism’: what the new framework offers for discussing Russia and empires

Украина, Орда и «колониализм наоборот»: что предлагает новая рамка для разговора о России и империях

Ukrainian diplomat and expert of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation Volodymyr Lakomov in a column for “Literary Ukraine” proposes a controversial but understandable thesis: the colonial experience of Eastern Europe cannot be described only in the language of “classical” modern empires. At the center of his argument is the idea of “reverse colonialism”: a […]

“Registration” by Glukhovsky: why the novel about the price of human life sparked controversy among Russians – and what does Israel have to do with it

«Регистрация» Глуховского: почему роман о цене человеческой жизни вызвал спор среди россиян - и при чём здесь Израиль

On September 17, 2026, Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the famous “Metro 2033,” published a new novel “Registration.” He posted it in full, for free, on his own Telegram channel. The book about the pregnant girlfriend of a Russian contract soldier trying to urgently register a marriage gradually turns into a story about money, war, […]

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