The much-anticipated summit between former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska concluded with plenty of pageantry but little progress. Wall Street
On August 11, 2025, Soviet-born writer and filmmaker Eduard Topol published an open letter addressed to former U.S. President Donald Trump. The letter, released by Kontinent, a
On 2 August 2017, President Donald Trump signed H.R. 3364, the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which included provisions related to sanctions on Russia, Iran, and
August 1, 2025 In the wake of a devastating attack on Kyiv that claimed the lives of numerous civilians, Hope for Ukraine has issued a strong statement
It is clear that NATO did not completely heed President Zelenskyy’s original call to provide Ukraine with a clear timeline for its path towards membership. That timeline would have served as a beacon of hope, invigorating Ukraine’s resolve to endure and prosper.
The article discusses the urgent need for Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction, emphasizing its strategic importance for the West and the threat posed by Russia, while questioning the feasibility of relying solely on the private sector for funding and proposing alternative solutions.
The article argues that Russia’s collapse is imminent due to its dire financial situation, weakened military, internal ethnic tensions, and growing separatist movements, with regions on its periphery likely to demand autonomy or secede, potentially leading to the dissolution of the Russian Federation.
Predictions of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war will lead to the disintegration of the Russian Federation, with various regions opting to leave, and highlights the potential for China to seize control of resource-rich areas such as Manchuria, which was historically part of China and currently belongs to Russia.
The war in Ukraine has reached a critical point, and the consequences of inaction could be catastrophic. The United States, the U.K., NATO countries, and other allies must step up their support for Ukraine to help push the Russians out of the Donbas and Crimea. It is do or die.
This article shares the intimate experience of Joris Meiklejohn, a second year engineering student at the University of Toronto, and the time he spent in the Lithuanian army during the Covid 19 pandemic and the start of the Russian war in Ukraine.
Putin is not afraid to escalate, to intimidate, to extort. We are — and he knows it. This must be reversed.
Addressing a recent article published by Alan Dershowitz, who unfairly condemned Ukraine’s President for calling on Israel to provide Ukraine offensive weapons.
A “diplomatic solution” in Ukraine would be a group hug around a delusion, the only predictability being its breach.
Here’s the backstory to the backstory of our July 31 drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al Qaeda, and the apparent connection.
In memory of the honourable David Kilgour, an outspoken member of parliament, a dedicated human rights activist, and a thoughtful friend.
Allegations of Macron’s potential backing of Bulgaria’s demands on Macedonia raise concern for EU credibility in the western Balkans.
We are a group of Ukrainian academic economists who were grieved by a series of your recent interviews and commentaries on the Russian war on Ukraine. We believe that your public opinion on this matter is counter-productive to bringing an end to the unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine and all the deaths and suffering it has brought into our home country.
Seeking to merely “contain” Putin is not enough. We have been outplayed, outsmarted and outmaneuvered in Europe, the Middle East, Venezuela, Africa and the Arctic. And simply repeating the pattern of reacting, deterring, responding, defending will not work.
After the Geneva Summit between Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden, it is time to ask why the irreducible precondition to that approach was so sedulously ignored at the Summit, and afterward.
Although bi-partisan support for American support of Ukraine remains strong, bizarrely there is a growing resistance to it by the Republican Party’s far-right.
Pegasus is an advanced software developed and licensed by the Israeli NSO Group, that has gained notoriety for effectively crippling the democratic processes in Poland and worldwide.
This is a reprint of a Toronto Star article dated January 17th, 2022 with permission from the author Alexandra Chyczij and with the cooperation of her co-writer Orest Zakydalsky.
This is a historical examination that will help shed light on what led to the recent violent protests by Kazakhs against their own government.
This article discusses the error of drawing an analogy between today’s Ukrainian crisis to the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis asserting that
due to Ukraine’s denuclearization following the Budapest Accord the situation today is different than what took place in 1962.
This article discusses the danger posed by Russian troops collecting on the Ukrainian border and the menace of Russian invasions
together with the demands put forward by Putin to Biden and NATO and how the West should respond to those demands.
This article discusses Putin’s contention that there is a Russian civilization that envelops Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians
based on a historical link to Kyivan Rus’. That contention is rebutted and the history of Ukraine is explored as a separate nation linked to Kyivan Rus.
Jars Balan, Former Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta publishes an Op ED on the recent Russian military build up on Ukrainian borders.
The Honourable David Kilgour delivers a webinar on European democracies after the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ukraine continues to fight for language sovereignty in order to preserve its national identity as separate from Russia. The global population can take specific steps to contribute to the freedom and democracy of Ukraine.
Macedonia’s road to the European Union hindered once again by an unwavering veto from Bulgaria and various demands to follow.
The Center for Eastern European Democracy (CEED) was recently formed as a nonprofit in Toronto to promote liberal democracy in Eastern Europe.
The formation of CEED follows the path of earlier efforts in the West to help advance the cause of the rule of law and human rights in
the former Soviet Union and in the countries of Eastern Europe. Those efforts involved decades of hard work helping dissidents and
informing the public about what was happening in that part of the world. The role of CEED today will be similar in nature.
Putin relays a strong message and action plan throughout his recent essay on Ukraine directed at Western countries that support Ukrainian independence. Ultimately, Putin’s goal is to regain Ukraine and strengthen his Russian empire. It is time to rally Western allies in support of Ukraine.