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Democratic Security
Union Jack and the White Eagle. Significance of the Poland-UK Defence Treaty
28 May 2026
16 June 2022
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The Novgorodians died in loneliness and darkness. The Ukrainians are still fighting in front of the whole civilised world. History is painfully repeating itself.
In its heyday, Novgorod was one of the largest and most famous cities in northern Europe — a part of Western civilisation. A tourist who comes to Novgorod today sees a small provincial, regional centre from afar. This text is not a historical essay but a description of Russian rulers’ political plans and the fate of the nations at their centre.
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Vitaly is a Visegrad Insight Fellow as of 2022. He is also an author and renowned journalist working in democratic media in Central and Eastern Europe for more than three decades. He is the author of hundreds of analytical articles in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Russian, Israeli, Baltic media. He hosts television programs and his own analytical channels on YouTube. He is currently broadcasting at the office of the Espreso TV channel in Lviv and continues to cooperate with the Ukrainian and Russian services of Radio Liberty. On the Russian service of Radio Liberty, he continues the project about the post-Soviet space “Roads to Freedom”, which was aired first from Moscow, then from Kyiv, and is now being produced in Lviv as a joint project of Radio Liberty, the Current Time TV channel and the Espreso TV channel.
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