Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, speaking at the YES conference event held in Kyiv by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation on Feb. 24 – the third anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion – as reported by a Kyiv ...

Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?

“Rolling back to the times of the Russian Empire — complete with cavalry and drafting representatives of national minorities as cannon fodder,” Gerashchenko wrote. The use of horses on the ...

He famously wrote a book about this – ghost-written, actually – with the title, The Art of the Deal (the ... is the dissolution of the last Russian empire, the freedoms won by Poland, East ...

“The buildup of Russian forces indicates that Moscow intends to keep ignoring diplomacy,” Zelensky said, referring to Moscow amassing its forces along the border in the Sumy region, where ...

“Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900,” now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to change this. In an ambitious array of some 200 artworks spanning eight ...

Three years after sending troops across the border into Ukraine, Russian officials are marking the anniversary on Monday with a resounding silence. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is not ...

As of March 12, 2025, the Russian “special military operation” launched against Ukraine has completed its third year and counting. Hopefully, the peace negotiations will prove fruitful, but Russia is ...

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank welcome Roger Peet to discuss art and resistance, the 60th anniversary of the US-backed genocide in Indonesia, and the conflicts ...

Storytelling and poetry have become mechanisms for essayists and poets to truly reconcile with the horrors of war. Both Dovzhyk and Starovoyt have turned their sorrows and pain into an art form that ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the Russian leader had no desire to end the war, proposing conditions that made a truce unattainable. Anton Troianovski Reporting from Berlin President ...