Next weekend, Kyiv’s hipsters will be fed a diet of stand-up comedy, music, fashion and food as they raise a finger to their aggressive neighbour
How to celebrate Putin’s 71st birthday? At the Ukrainian festival telling him to ‘fuck off’
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John Sweeney
John Sweeney
John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who has investigated Russian interference in the US elections and Scientology
Death of a storyteller
John Sweeney remembers Ukrainian novelist turned war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, who has died in a Russian rocket attack on a watering hole favoured by journalists
Roberto Saviano: Italian democracy on trial
The Gomorrah author heads to court tomorrow in a case that illuminates the precarious state of media freedom in Italy
The Buena Vista Social v The Kremlin
The empty chairs at the empty tables in a journalists’ hangout in Kyiv are a tribute to the ultimate price paid for free expression
“Russia says it is not killing civilians. That is a lie”
Reporting for Index from Kyiv, John Sweeney says knocking a TV station off air by firing missiles at the transmitting tower is as subtle as Putin gets