by Alysha Zawaduk | Mar 20, 2014 | Op-eds, Opinions
Don’t blame the common Westerner for misunderstanding Ukraine; blame world leaders, and media outlets that churn out ignorant views about Ukraine and its people. Ukraine is not merely some card in a high-stakes game of world poker, nor is it intensely divided to the...
by Alysha Zawaduk | Mar 12, 2014 | Opinions
Don’t blame the common Westerner for misunderstanding Ukraine; blame world leaders, and media outlets that churn out ignorant views about Ukraine and its people. Ukraine is not merely some card in a high-stakes game of world poker, nor is it intensely divided to the...
by Alysha Zawaduk | Feb 5, 2014 | Op-eds, Opinions
Ukraine as a nation is young. But as a landscape under the heavy shadows of the mighty Russian bear and the critical European eye, it is very old. Its current troubles don’t exist simply in the context that most in the West imagine—that of balancing the legacy of the...