“Poetry as witness during a time of great atrocity”
August 18, 2023 - Nicole Yurcaba
August 18, 2023 - Nicole Yurcaba
October 2, 2022 - Olena Petryshyn
August 25, 2022 - Zoriana Varenia
April 25, 2022 - Andrey Kirillov
April 25, 2022 - Imke Hansen
April 25, 2022 - Andrii Horobchuk
March 30, 2022 - Adam Balcer
July 7, 2020 - Svitlana Oslavska
August 26, 2019 - Dominic Culverwell
On August 1st at exactly 5pm, Warsaw will remain motionless. Sirens and horns will shriek, people will pause, and all traffic – cars, buses, and trams – will stop in its tracks. As every year, for a few minutes, it will feel as if time is standing still. This is done to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. The uprising that began on August 1st 1944 and lasted for 63 days has become Poland’s national symbol of martyrdom. But the commemorations and tributes to the veterans that are still living are always accompanied by a national debate: “Was it worth it?”
July 27, 2017 - Maciej Olchawa
Neither the European Union nor NATO will any time soon be able to fill the security vacuum they have left with their hesitant policies in the grey zones of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus. Both organisations have, in the past, amply demonstrated their inadequacy as strategically thinking and geopolitically resolute actors. Against this background, some post-Soviet politicians, diplomats and intellectuals are starting to discuss alternative options to, at least partially, increase their countries’ security. The most prominent among these concepts is the creation of a so-called “Intermarium coalition”.
July 6, 2017 - Kostiantyn Fedorenko and Andreas Umland