The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the nongovernmental organization (NGO) the Foundation of Women’s Rights Promotion and Development (FWRPD) are jointly holding Taiwan Gender Equality Week (TGEW) for a third year running. The timing of the programme again corresponds with the annual meeting in March of the UN…
Modern Putinism is based on an attempt to establish Russia as one of the centres of the “multipolar world” in order to give Moscow the status of the third Rome, the “world pole of good”, based on the “great Russian spirituality”. Under the dense cover of this myth, which is tirelessly reproduced by Russian propaganda,…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started on February 24. It has become a Great Patriotic War for the Ukrainian people, with President Zelensky rising to the occasion to rally the people against one common enemy attempting to annexe Ukraine. Popular resistance against Russian aggression and support for the Ukrainian army has been inspiring. Although fearful, Ukrainian…
After Ukraine, it will be Georgia, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland. Unless Putin’s war is stopped in Ukraine, the juggernaut will just continue. Although the Russian Federation is already the largest country in the world Putin’s appetite is insatiable and his mind is obsessed with a warped nostalgia to be “Back in the USSR”. Closing…
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has now brought the world to the brink of a nuclear disaster. The Russian army deliberately opened fire today on the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant managed by the Ukrainian state enterprise UkrEnergoAtom. It is the largest nuclear power station in Europe. Fire has broken out at the plant and it…
Two letters – two similar opinions about the war in Ukraine The publishers of SvitUA received two letters about the war in Ukraine. One from Russia, the second from Belarus. Their authors, a Russian and a Belarusian, asked the editor to publish their opinions on what is happening so that Ukrainians know that not everyone…
Millions of civilians of Ukraine discover their “50 shades of fear” every day under air raids on civil buildings, Grad heavy showers, tanks, artillery, shooting in the streets. And they re-discover their “50 shades of dignity” every day, which can be the last one. Children as well as adults daily and hourly experience all the…
Are we going to see a remake of Sarajevo’s siege in the heart of Europe? Some thirty years ago, we were watching desperately the people of Sarajevo being starved, and ruthlessly shot by snipers as they were fighting for a multi-ethnic Bosnia. Desperately? Yes, but not helplessly, writes Patricia Duval. The work done by…
Russians! You are trying to conquer Ukraine, but you are killing yourself. Six days of bloodshed in Ukraine. Six days of Ukrainian heroism. Six days of support for Kyiv by the Western coalition. Six days of pain and suffering for people in an independent country. Six days of death of the defenders of Ukrainian cities,…
Ukraine has become a real bear trap for Russia. The fierce resistance of Ukrainian defenders of the bloody invasion that Putin unleashed has the Kremlin in a spin. On Sunday, the bitterness on the Ukrainian front turned into a new round of threats, and the doomsday clock shifted again. Putin alerted Russia’s strategic missile forces…
