Today it is exactly one month since Russia invaded Ukraine to take Kiev within 48 hours. Poisonous mood. Everyone who is not in Ukraine is already used to war, it is part of the daily routine. If the news had an avalanche-like effect at first, swallowing you whole, now they are well dosed. A little…
While the Ukrainian army, the strongest in Europe, with the help of its numerous allies, fertilizes its country with fascist invaders who, as it turns out, cannot really wage war, the hysteria on Russia’s central TV channels is hard to hide; I quote, “We have something simple to say to Europe. You will get a…
I wonder if Hungary will honor the veto it promised Russia on the issue of European Union sanctions against Russian energy resources. Will Germany do the same? How quickly will we be able to build wind turbines? Or put solar panels on the roof of a garden shed? Is co-financing possible? Who will pay the…
It’s starting to be confusing now how long it’s been going on. War fatigue has set in. Both sides are tired. The front line goes back and forth, Mariupol is still besieged and systematically annihilated along with its population, Kiev has not been taken, negotiations between the warring parties are going nowhere. There is unity…
I was invited to Riga Castle, where an international conference with the participation of the President was held on the following occasion: Today, for the first time, the National Resistance Movement Memorial Day is celebrated in Latvia. The speeches recalled the past and the significance of the date – at the March 17, 1944, during…
21st day of the war News in brief: Russian Nazi fascists invaded the town of Gorlovka in the Donbas region in 2014 and kidnapped city council deputy Vladimir Rybak. For several days he was tortured, then they cut open his stomach and threw his body into the river. This week, in March 2022, the Russian…
March Similarities. Yesterday marked exactly 83 years since the end of the “Winter War,” or the Soviet invasion of Finland. It lasted 3 months, 1 week and 6 days, from November 30, 1939 to March 13, 1940. As in the case of Ukraine, the Finnish campaign in Moscow was intended to be a quick operation…
Friday. Today I spent a lot of time with the students, but I failed to do what I had planned to do the day before – ask them if they would flee Latvia if there was a war. I didn’t ask them because they fascinated me with their still unfinished scripts, which date back to…
The 15th day of the war. The fact that Russians hurriedly bought out IKEA, stood in line at McDonald’s, and frantically pulled money out of ATMs shows that they were well informed because/while the state broadcasters were silent about the effects of the sanctions; so people may very well know about the horrors of the…
The 14th day of the war. Russian writer Boris Akunin, who has long lived in exile, warned us not to listen to Putin, because every speech he makes is a special operation. His speeches and those of all others who have gone through the KGB school are not meant to disseminate information, but to conceal…