Sanctions at Home, Stage in London: The Shevtsova Case and the Limits of Compliance
A Ukrainian fintech executive sanctioned at home recently appeared as a speaker and her company as a sponsor at a major UK compliance event – raising questions about how compliance works in practice.
A Cornered Rat Before Its Last Jump
Putin’s mystique has often been associated with the behavior of a cornered rat. Now it seems that rat is lashing out at a new iteration of NATO – one it had not foreseen.
Germany Steps Up
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is rearming Germany, bankrolling Ukraine, and picking fights with Trump – and he’s just getting started.
Accounting Chamber vs. Corruption: How Proactive Auditing Saves Billions in Budget Funds
Proactive auditing is not just a new anti-corruption rally cry. Nor is it merely a technical procedure. It is already in operation paving the way toward true government accountability.
Return No. 7 From Ukraine – The Rational Power of a Great Nation
The Inevitable Demise of a Pathetic Country: Russia
America Should Rediscover the Soft Power Potential of Its Music
What made jazz – the quintessential American music – dangerous was not the sound, but the idea behind it: improvisation, spontaneity, individual voice.
Trump’s Kremlin Policies Threaten GOP’s Future
The Republicans will face a historical defeat in the US midterm elections this year unless they reverse course on Trump’s aiding and abetting Russia in its strategy of undermining the US.
Make Russia Pay – Or Accept A World Where Power Defines What Is Right
Peace without accountability won’t end the war in Ukraine
Bravo King Charles III – A Majestic Address in the US Congress
How a real king defended democracy and Ukraine and reminded Americans of the lessons their present leadership wants to neglect.
Putin’s Chornobyl: a Régime That Will Not Permit the Wound to Heal
From the 2022 Red Forest trenches to the St. Valentine’s 2025 drone strike, the Kremlin’s war is a war on the truth of 1986 – and the men who buried that truth are now being decorated for it.
A Fight for Europe’s Future
The Continent must learn from the war in Ukraine that more than the fate of one country is at stake and it needs to be united to fend off Russian aggression.
Hungary’s New Leadership – More Moral Blindness and Manipulation?
Will Budapest’s hypocrisy toward Ukraine and European values and solidarity be continued?
OPINION: The Bill for Crimea Comes Due for Putin
Crimea, a symbol of Putin neo-imperial project, has become the place that will bankrupt Putin’s political capital.
July 11, 2026