Opinion – Narrative without strategy in the Ukrainian position of the West Trendy Blogger

Opinion – Narrative without strategy in the Ukrainian position of the West

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The war in Ukraine, now in its third year, has from the start as a moral confrontation – the dominant story being that of a sovereign democracy resisting the revisionism of an authoritarian Russian state seeking to recover the lost grandeur of its former empire. A crisis that could have been contained has been transformed … Read more

La Palisiada film review: Elliptical Ukrainian drama set in 1996 is a disturbing provocation trendy blogger

La Palisiada film review: Elliptical Ukrainian drama set in 1996 is a disturbing provocation

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History, when told well, is a muddy and confusing thing. There are no elegant narratives or happy endings. Philip Sotnychenko’s “La Palisiada” takes this truism and twists it into a suitably complex form: this 1996 film noir chronicles a pivotal moment in Ukrainian history by focusing on the investigation of a murder. But as it … Read more