Moldova Heads West
On the morning of October 22, 2025, less than a month after a critical parliamentary election, a petite, almost fragile-looking brunette-haired woman, 53 years old, approached the podium in the Moldovan parliament… As she stepped forward, a white-clad military band struck a chord and a voice introduced the Moldovan president, Maia Sandu.
Kharkiv’s Memorial of Glory
The Memorial of Glory lies in the pine forest that edges northern Kharkiv. Built in the 1970s over the mass graves of partisans and civilians executed by the Nazis, it was designed as a Soviet shrine to victory. Like much of Kharkiv, a city of utopian architecture and bombed-out kindergartens, it feels suspended outside ordinary time.