Bezuhla's PMC TIC brief
The [intelligence gathering] *event* was completed and can be considered successful: the Defense Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine...
Bring Back Our Blimp
We all remember the twenty-second and the final episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. Simpsons jokes...
Prominvestbank Purgatory
The competition between paradigms is not the sort of battle that can be resolved by proofs. - Thomas Kuhn If everyone had a their own personal investment...
Ukraine's Spherical Cow
Феникс (Phoenix), formerly called Еврика (Eureka) and Казбек (Kazbek), is a new fusion restaurant on Lesi Ukrainki Boulevard in Kyiv. On Thursday nights...
Servants of Pandora
Dear colleagues, you and I have seen a lot of cynicism, manipulation and distortion in this Parliament. But, really, I don't think we’ve witnessed anything...
Scale-free Wagner PMC
Ukraine’s secret services lured more than two dozen Russian mercenaries to Minsk in a botched attempt to hold them accountable for crimes they confessed to....
Ukraine's Plan "Г"
Member of Parliament Mariana Bezuhla chairs the Rada’s special investigation committee looking into possible screw-ups involving Ukraine’s national security....
A Man in Full
He loves the way his mighty chest rises and falls beneath his freshly pressed shirt. When he breathes deeply, Mykola Tyshchenko imagines that everyone...
Setting the Plate Clear
Handmade paper collage by Annalynn Hammond, titled "The Subject Objects" The essence of political activity is revealed when you define its two basic...
Fortress Ukraine
History will surely note this absurdly ill-timed Instagram selfie. On Wednesday, September 1, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary posed twice for his...
A Republic of Popular Servants
(Illustration by Володимир Цеслар) Very little progress on at least three gigantic fuck-ups. WagnergateSemenchenkogateChausgate Scandals #1 and #2 involve...
One More Big Mistake
There is nothing sensational in the dramatic appearance of Mykola Chaus in a village near Moldova border on July 30, 2021. He isn’t the first Ukrainian...
Playing in the Shadows
The war will end when the shooting stops. The presidential candidate who said that two years ago is today having difficulty answering three simple yes-or-no...
Brilliantly Righteous While Half Baked
Ukrainians have known for years that foreign linguistic experts pick up on much less in conversation than native speakers. However, few expected that the...
Not About Ukraine
We discussed soundtrack ideas for BELLINGCAT’s Wagnergate Netflix docudrama in our last post. Since then, I’ve settled on this score. There has been a lot of...
Drones in My Bones
BELLINGCAT: WAGNERGATE Tx Date: March ? 2021 This script was made from audio tape – any inaccuracies are due to voices being unclear or inaudible 00.00.00...
Wagnergate (update)
Andriy Yermak, Head of the President’s Office of Ukraine, is in a lot of trouble. “The truth is that in 1918 I gave authorization to prepare this operation,...
Ukraine is Not a Piano
What links the President of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to protests in Belarus against strongman Aleksander Lukashenko, Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
Possibly Fatal Outdoor Dining
A premium lamb-lard-wrapped-in-whatever roll costs UAH 95 (almost $4). The Мясо & Lavasch stands have popped up everywhere in Kyiv. Unhealthy fare. Donor...
Realities We Don't See
Igor Novikov, a former advisor to Ukraine’s moron president, has apparently leaked the contents of a 40-minute chit chat with Donald Trump’s personal lawyer...
