Latest from Nataliya Vasilyeva
Released From Prison, a Russian Anti-War Artist Is Still Working To Free Herself
Unlike seasoned opposition figures in Russia, jailed for their anti-war activism after the Kremlin failed to push them into exile, Alexandra Skochilenko, the once-obscure artist from St. Petersburg, was not at all mentally prepared to spend two years behind bars. Now, she also finds herself ill-prepared for freedom.
With Attention on Gaza, Evictions Are Accelerating in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood
Palestinians living in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are used to being in limbo and have long faced the prospect of being forcibly removed, but the war in Gaza, now in its ninth month, has allowed Israeli settler violence to spread unchecked across the occupied Palestinian territories and evictions have accelerated.
A Russian Journalist Believed Ukraine Had Taught Her About War and Suffering — Then She Moved to Israel
The unbridled thirst for mutual destruction on both sides, espoused by ordinary Israelis and Palestinians, not the marginal war bloggers or Kremlin-paid TV hosts like we have in Russia, was something that eclipsed my imagination.