Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…
Ukrainian psychiatric hospitals: engraved in my eyeballs
There are some images that remain engraved in your eyeballs for the rest of your life. For me…
Social care homes: the Ukrainian “Gulag”
Imagine your brother decides to marry and needs more space in the flat your deceased mother left behind,…
Robert van Voren: A new history of disasters, or how the world will look in 2019
Imagine 2019. President Trump has been around for three years, bogged down by court cases in connection with…
Robert van Voren: Third anniversary of Maidan: I have lost my hopes, but I don’t give up
It is clear the honeymoon days are over. Three years after the start of Maidan, it is evident…
Waking up in a new world
“Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built”. With these words the chief strategist of French right-wing leader…
MH17: Crime without punishment
It was supposed to be an effective public relations move, creating doubt and sowing distrust among the Western…
The globalization of Putinism
The year 2016 will go down in history as a turning point. Whatever happens during the second half…
Ukraine: 25 years of wandering in the desert
It took Moses forty years to lead the Israeli people out of the desert into the Promised Land,…
The rapidly changing landscape in Europe
Thirty years ago the political landscape on the European continent seemed stable and fixated for decades to come.…
How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?
One of the results of the Maidan is the transfer of the KGB archives to the National Memory…
Dutch referendum a painful mistake
Whatever the outcome of the Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement will be, the whole process has…
Dutch referendum initiator misuses Euro 150,000 of government subsidies
‘GeenPeil’ has systematically collected subsidy money that was meant for citizens. Through this detour around Euro 150,000 government…
Dutch referendum organizer playing with fear and ignorance
One of the organizers of the referendum in the Netherlands on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is a man…
How a democratic tool became a threat to democracy
For decades the Dutch political party Democrats ‘66 campaigned for the introduction of a referendum as part of…
Manipulating a vote, Dutch referendum-style
The Netherlands is preparing itself for a political novelty: on April 6, for the first time in history,…
Voting “no” in Dutch referendum means abandoning Eastern Ukraine
Two months to go until the Dutch referendum on the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.…
Ukraine is really changing
One of the sayings the Romans used was “mens sana in corpore sano”, meaning “a healthy mind in…
Dutch referendum blessing for Putin’s “useful idiots”
For the past twenty-five years I have been working in Ukraine, mainly in the field of mental health…
Ukraine as a theme for Dutch populist politics
It definitely was not the most pleasant sight, watching how MP Oleh Barna grabbed Prime-Minister Yatseniuk by the…