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Nobel laureate calls for tribunal to try Putin

by mary wald | Sep 3, 2023 | Features, Human Rights, Russia, Ukraine

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk has called for the swift creation of a special tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and his associates for the crime of aggression, arguing that it could have “a cooling effect” on atrocities committed by the Kremlin’s...

Dmitry Muratov on Corruption and Ukraine

by mary wald | Sep 3, 2023 | Conflict, Dmitry Muratov, Features, Freedom of Press, News, Russia, Ukraine

On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has displaced millions of Ukrainians and claimed the lives of thousands of civilians, the Utah Valley University (UVU) Center for Constitutional Studies (CCS) hosted Russian journalist and...

Ukraine: The Morning After

by mary wald | Nov 20, 2022 | Peace Building, Ukraine

by Mary Wald My neighbor is a twentysomething woman from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her family is still there. When I asked her how her family is doing, she said, “Well they’re alive, and that’s good. "What is so hard to understand is that the Russians were our brothers. We...