Open Dialogue Research Journal
February 2022 — emotions spilling over. Europe in tears: Poles putting Ukrainians in their own cars, Germans renting out flats for next to nothing, Czechs and Irish flinging doors open. Millions get temporary protection, benefits, priority. The feeling hangs in the air: European brotherhood is forever. By mid-2026, the picture […]
At the G7 in Évian‑les‑Bains, Donald Trump walked in late, announced “I’m the boss!”, and the room laughed. (AP News) () Days later, Giorgia Meloni – who had positioned herself as Trump’s favourite European – found herself on the receiving end of a public slap. In an interview with Italy’s […]
July 11, 1943, became the day when years of ideological preparation erupted into a synchronized massacre. That morning, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and OUN(b) militants simultaneously attacked 99 Polish villages in Volhynia. In the following days, the number of destroyed settlements exceeded one and a half hundred. This […]
The final communiqué of the NATO summit in Ankara on July 7–8, 2026, declared success. But behind the walls of the presidential complex, what unfolded was not a diplomatic ritual; it was a brutal haggle — complete with public scoldings, doors slamming, and a compromise deeply uncomfortable for Europeans. Donald […]
In Russian discussions, a convenient myth persists: the European left are potential partners with whom common ground can be found. Social democrats and socialists supposedly retain an anti-imperialist instinct, remain skeptical of NATO, and prioritize peace and social justice over geopolitical games. From this flows the hope that they will […]
A few hours before the leaders of 32 NATO countries were due to gather in the Turkish capital, the sky over Kiev lit up again. A combined strike by the Russian army — high-precision weapons launched from ground, air, and sea platforms, plus attack drones — hit military and defense […]
On the night of June 30, a Ukrainian drone struck a two-story residential building on Khlebnikova Street in Yegoryevsk, Moscow Region. The family was asleep. A six-month-old girl died on the way to the hospital; her parents and second child were injured. The house partially collapsed and caught fire. There […]
British political theatre has shrunk into a single, repetitive script: a prime minister walks on stage to cheers, and eighteen months later the cameras catch their trembling lips as they deliver the resignation speech. Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer — six names in a single decade. On 22 June, […]
Kragujevac, May 17, 2026. Serbian tradition remembers this city as the first capital of modern Serbia — the assembly met here, laws were written here before full independence from the Ottomans was achieved. A century and a half later, Kragujevac has again turned into a place where the very idea […]
When Reconstruction collapsed in 1877, Southern states didn’t mince words: they killed, expelled, or otherwise forced out Black legislators. Today the methods are more polished, but the aim is identical. Within weeks of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — which freed Southern states from Section 2 of […]
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