Published by The Daily Mail (22nd January, 2022) Maksym Bilyk is a young man who thinks carefully before speaking, works with computers and has never fired a gun […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Fears and fighting spirit of nation in Kremlin crosshairs
Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2022) Oksana Lanskaya, a mother and successful Ukrainian food entrepreneur, admits being scared now that Russian military forces have encircled her […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street
Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret torture camp in the heart of a bustling […]
Europe / Serbia
Spectre of war in the Balkans
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th November, 2021) Munira Subasic lost her husband and teenage son in the darkest chapter of European history since the Second World […]
Belarus / Europe / Poland
Laser attack on border guards
Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th November, 2021) Border police have been blinded with lasers and strobe lights as they struggle to shore up Europe’s eastern frontier defences […]
Belarus / Europe / Germany / Immigration / Poland / Policy
A grotesque game of human ping-pong
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th November, 2021) We met deep inside Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, where bison and wolves roam beneath ancient towering oaks. ‘I […]
Europe / Germany
Prosecuting all elderly Nazis is vital for society
Published by The Jewish Chronicle (4th November, 2021) The screens in the makeshift German court showed those horribly familiar pictures in black and white from Nazi death camps: […]
Covid19 / Europe / Germany
How I learned to accept Covid passes
Published by The i paper (25th October, 2021) Yesterday I checked into a hotel in Berlin. Then I ate a cheese sandwich and drank a coffee in a […]
Europe / Germany
The secretary of evil and the dark shadows of history
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th October, 2021) Eighty years ago this weekend, a young SS recruit started working as a guard at Sachsenhausen, the concentration camp […]
Belarus / Europe / Immigration / Lithuania / Policy
How migrants are being used as weapons
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th August, 2021) The pandemic has crushed the global tourism industry, with thousands of flights cancelled and millions of holidays postponed – but […]