“They bombed our apartment,” Sasha told me nonchalantly in Kyiv last May. Fortunately, no one was hurt. She and her husband Dimitri were busy in a friend’s kitchen preparing Molotov cocktails to hurl at Russian tanks, a popular pastime in…
Andriy Portnov is a professor of Ukrainian history at the Viadrina European University in Frankfurt am Oder, director of the Prisma Ukraïna research network focusing on the Eastern Europe, author and co-editor of nine books and over two hundred scientific…
I must have already been a teenager when I learnt that my great-grandmother used to switch to German whenever she wanted some privacy from her children or grandchildren. Older women used to do their gossiping in German in the Swabian…