Your Tongue is Wet
Painting by Mariia Prymachenko A recent surge in linkery to some of this site’s more pointed comment on Kyiv’s corporate lapdogs and demagogue paste-up...
A Long-winded Hagiography
Bohdan Nahaylo, the new managing editor of Ukraine’s goat with teeth, wrote more than 1,600 words about himself on Christmas Eve. The longwinded auto-...
The Fiddler on Ukraine's Roof
Pereislav coat of arms (adopted in 1620) Ending Russia’s war against Ukraine is complicated by the inadequacy of formal equality, competing narratives...
Ukraine's Goat With Teeth
We do now feel the need to say something. We feel a need to pile on. Because, for the first time in recent memory, the pile on the new Kyiv Post doesn’t seem...
Oleksandr Hohilashvili Busted
Photograph: Babel.ua Ukraine’s (now former) Deputy Interior Minister Oleksandr Hohilashvili had championed the fight against decriminalizing pot since at...
Fosamax Forever
We all know Fosamax, the prescription medicine invented by Merck & Co. for the treatment or prevention of osteoporosis (thinning of bone) in women after...
Requiem for Ukraine?
Photo: president.gov.ua Just how precious or sacred are you, really, if a bear can suddenly rip off part of your head? If you’re as bored as I am with the...
I Got No Eyelids
Well, heck. The response to a possible Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been truly remarkable, and the reporting quite bizarre. We’re laughing in...
Status Quo Dum Milito
To flirt is divine, but to flirt without regard to your country's security is downright unpatriotic. The member of parliament from the Servant of the People...
Zelensky's New Clothes
Many supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky secretly believe that he is not even remotely qualified for the presidency, but they continue to...
Plan A
Plan A. The Kremlin planned to finish the operation before the Christmas holidays. If this had happened, the response of the United States and European Union...
Riot Division
A scant three days remain before the planned insurrection in Kyiv announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. As of this writing, Ukraine’s law-...
Ukraine Goes Coup Coup
So far, the best part of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s (Z) five and a half hour press conference is what journalist Yuriy Butusov said after it...
Death To All Who Blather
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 19, 2021. Improvisational comedy is...
Autumnal Canabalism
Photo by Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos Ukraine’s moron president is in trouble again, this time for using new H225 Super Puma helicopters bought by taxpapers...
Rats on a Journey™
Eared Beast Grasped A Crustacean (1983) The headless drake with the cormorant beak wearing the purple blouse has been removed from the playground in front of...
Ukraine's Headless Drake
Photo by Valeriy Kalnysh Even a stopped clock tells the correct time twice a day. On November 22, the ex-Kyiv Post team filed a report on their all-in-one...
Something Memorable
BBC’s guidance on impartiality is here. Anyway, Luc now hates himself for doing his job, for connecting the dots assigned him in a ground-glass editorial...
Kyiv Post Strikes Again
Rather, just so ick. On November 19, the ex-Kyiv Post team filed a report on their all-in-one Mailchimp marketing platform about an alleged murder plot...
I, An Actor
Kyiv Post columnist killvlogger Serhiy Leshchenko on November 18 devoted almost half of his daily screed to Bellingcat’s report, titled Inside Wagnergate:...
