Russian journalist and editor-in-exile Marina Sedneva has been embedded at The Colorado Sun this month. She reflects on democracy and the importance of journalism.
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Littwin: Biden couldn’t have picked a better time for his trips to a war zone
Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Joe Biden’s secret trip to war-torn Kyiv and his strongly worded rebuttal to Putin’s speech sent a clear and powerful message.
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Littwin: If Putin uses a nuclear device in Ukraine, how would Trump cultists respond?
It’s hardly certain that Trump would support a Putin tactical nuclear attack, but would anyone be surprised if he did?
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Silverman: We need to stand up to bullies, at the Oscars or in the Kremlin
Humor is hard these days. Witness Chris Rock, who got slapped hard by Will Smith for a bad bald joke. Weeks later, Chris Rock and the world are still processing what we witnessed. The last thing this world needs right now is more violence, pain and bullying. Putin’s War and worldwide pandemics don’t lend themselves […]
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Littwin: Once again, Zelenskyy makes it impossible for anyone to ignore Putin’s war crimes
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dangerous man. It’s not just that Ukraine’s president is the rare leader of a country who is unafraid to admit that he has a working conscience to complement his ever-present green T-shirt. It’s that he has the gall to insist that other world leaders should have a conscience, too. And, as […]
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Ukrainians in Colorado try to make sense of a yearslong conflict from afar
Tetiana Doiun was watching movies with her husband at home in Highlands Ranch when Russia’s president began an invasion in Ukraine last month. Without skipping a beat, Doiun called her elderly mother and aunt, who live together in Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine. When her mother finally answered the phone, it was about 6 […]