Ani Chkhikvadze

How damaging could the Ukraine corruption scandal be for Zelensky?

29 November 2025 8:07 am

Andriy Yermak, the cryptic aide who shadowed Volodymyr Zelensky through every phase of the war, resigned Friday after anti-corruption investigators…

Why would Putin sign Trump’s peace deal?

26 November 2025 4:26 am

It was summer 2022. Ukraine had just taken back Kyiv, people were returning to the city, and the mood was…

Europe is a paper tiger

1 September 2025 12:09 pm

“The purpose of NATO,” Lord Hastings Ismay, the alliance’s first secretary general, once quipped, was “to keep the Americans in,…

A Trump-branded peace deal

9 August 2025 7:46 am

Mount Ararat rises over Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, its peak often lost in clouds. It is the country’s national symbol, yet…

Dive bars will save the West

20 July 2025 4:58 pm

On the wall of a dive bar in Washington, DC, hung a poster for Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger. The bar had…