We have often heard Western right-wing politicians describe Putin’s regime as “conservative.” They justify this by pointing to P...

We have often heard Western right-wing politicians describe Putin’s regime as “conservative.” They justify this by pointing to P...

YouTube video by Ilya Ganpantsura

YouTube video by Ilya Ganpantsura

YouTube video by Ilya Ganpantsura

Это сатирическое и ироничное произведение изображает фигуру А. Арестовича как противоречивого и сложного персонажа, одновременно влиятельного и противоречивого. Автор подчеркивает его умение выжива…

A person’s biography and experience are a heavy and important tool; and identity, in a personal sense, is how we choose to interact with our experience and the place we occupy in life — that is, with our reality. Identity is a set of values and empirical knowledge through which we form an idea of ourselves. But we form these “ideas of ourselves” only in comparison with others. It turns out that our identity is also our view of everything that exists.

Это сатирическое и ироничное произведение изображает фигуру А. Арестовича как противоречивого и сложного персонажа, одновременно влиятельного и противоречивого. Автор подчеркивает его умение выживать в политических и социальных системах, играя с правдой и интригами, при этом оставаясь «системным» элементом собственной игры. В тексте сочетаются метафорические образы и каламбуры, создающие эффект напряженной, почти алхимической игры слов. Читатель сталкивается с напряжением между публичным обликом и личной скрытностью, с фокусом на противоречиях человеческой натуры. В произведении одновременно присутствуют и политическая сатира, и философская отсылка к вечности, верности и моральной ответственности.

In this article, I will examine the impact of decolonial discourse not only on culture and art but also on political direction and military tradition. In my opinion, a very harmful trend — captivating in its simplicity — has emerged in Ukraine, fueled by the trauma of war. This trend involves the rejection of a “colonial” past which is, in fact, often our own, such as the personalities and cultural phenomena that shaped Ukraine.

On 14 September 2025 Ilya V Ganpantsura wrote in Countercurrents: In the USSR, writers often became defenders of human rights. They were people of various ages and backgrounds, yet their works expo…

For me, a Ukrainian Protestant who converted from Orthodoxy at the age of sixteen, Protestantism at first appeared as a more secular and freer form of Christianity. But the deeper I explored this d…

Roger Scruton speaks on behalf of a house that survived. Yuri Lotman gathers his thoughts to draft the blueprint for a new house

Roger Scruton speaks on behalf of a house that survived. Yuri Lotman gathers his thoughts to draft the blueprint for a new house

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The identity of Dnipro’s people is closely tied to the figure of Dmytro Yavornytsky. We feel his presence — not so much as a Ukrainian one, but above all as someone significant for us as a city. Yet the issue of decolonization may place even our historical identities under condemnation. After that, the collapse of our identity along the cracks left by activist-driven politics will become the next inevitable step.