Silicon Curtain

Russia is paying a huge price in terms of blood and resource for every  inch of Ukrainian territory it tries to seize. The capture of Soledar, a  small town of little strategic importance that is cla…

Putin continues to drive deeper Western support for Ukraine with his  brutality and indiscriminate aggression. Now France, Germany and the US  are sending tanks and Patriot batteries. This could sign…

Russian information operations are designed to accentuate and exaggerate  the effects of war, but their strategies have been changing since the  attack on the Kerch Bridge. Whereas Russian disinforma…

After Putin was foisted on Russians in 2000 as their new president, they  also chose to elect him. His direct and coarse language, threat and  intimation of violence attracted people, and continued t…

It’s my pleasure today to welcome back onto the channel Vlad Vexler,  Social Philosopher, and popular YouTuber. Our previous two video  conversations proved to be extremely popular, and so we are ris…

Today I’m speaking with Anna Danylchuk, who has been creating a war  diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by  Russia in 2022. She aims to tell the truth about Ukraine when…

Putin claims that a belligerent NATO forced his hand to invade Ukraine.  He undoubtedly also feared an independent, democratic, and affluent  Ukraine. But like a classical Greek drama, Putin has by h…

The war is not going well for Russia. His propagandists on state TV are  making ever more aggressive and genocidal demands against Ukraine –  doubling down on its right to exist; hardliners are makin…

Russian’s assault on Ukraine in 2022 presents the most serious  geopolitical crisis since the Second World War, and the first time a  country has sought to expunge a sovereign nation from the map of …

The Social, Political and Psychological impact of Russia's Mobilisation.  Conscription is capricious, and threatening - causing a huge wave of  flight from Russia, especially among men of military dr…

The next generation of cannon fodder - the Militarisation of Youth and  Manipulation of History.   

Not only has Russia engaged in an aggressive war in 2022, but it’s also  been ramping up military a…

Putin has ordered a partial mobilisation in Russia, as a tacit admission  that Moscow's war in Ukraine is not going to plan after nearly seven  months of intense and bloody fighting. Officially 300,0…

Putin is counting on a loss of cohesion among the Western allies, to  help him win the war in Ukraine. Countries that have been particularly  targeted to weaken their resolve include Hungary and Ital…

It seems that Russia’s main strategy in its war is now attrition and  perseverance. Putin hopes that the commitment of the West to Ukraine  will decline as the horror drags on for months. Russian inf…

Starting from scratch in January 2014 as a citizen media initiative,  with no starting capital, Euromaidan Press is now #4 in terms of  readership among English-language media about Ukraine, as well …

Information security - How Ukraine has pioneered Open Source  Intelligence to fight Hybrid Information Warfare. Disinformation and all  the dark arts of hybrid information warfare are a major threat …

Dr Yuri Felshtinsky is a prominent author, historian, and journalist,  and expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared in  hundreds of print, TV and radio interviews worldwide, and …

Unbroken: How Independent Candidates are Resisting Autocracy during the  Moscow Municipal Elections. Moscow held its municipal elections last  weekend, and the event received an unusual amount of att…