While most of the focus is on governments and NGOs, the private sector also has a role to play.
When a month ago Russia decided to brutally attack the Ukrainian people and their sovereignty, most of the attention of the public opinion turned to the role that governments and NGOs play in responding to the situation.
Ukraine has now been a sovereign and independent nation for over 30 years. As a sovereign and independent nation, Ukraine’s foreign policy is not a matter to be determined by Russia, the United States, or the European Union — it is a matter for Ukrainians.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin clearly disagrees. As Ukraine pursues a policy of closer alignment with the West, its relations with Russia have deteriorated to the point of being on the brink of a full-scale war.
“Be more autocratic than Peter the Great and sterner than Ivan the Terrible.”
Tsarina Alexandra, to her husband Nicholas II
To the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute
The President
The Executive Vice President
Dear Friends of Liberty,
Since late-2021, we at Freedom Today Network have been following really closely the ongoing and growing conflict taking place in Ukraine.
For those of you who have been following the situation as well, we want to thank you for doing so – because as Martin Luther King said, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
If 2020 was the year of the pandemic, 2022 seems to be the year of geopolitics.
In the past week, thousands of people in Kazakhstan have turned to the streets in the nation’s largest wave of protest since it became an independent nation in the early 1990s.
As the situation in Ukraine heats up, SFL alumni Tania Rak and Maria Chaplia raise their voices.
Dear readers,
As the Russian government continues to threaten Ukraine’s sovereignty and the well-being of the Ukrainian people, Students For Liberty alumni from Ukraine raise their voices and speak out about the situation.
Achieving peace in Ukraine is vital to Europe’s Future
Dear readers,
Since 1939, there has never been a greater chance of war between two major countries in Europe than the one we face today.
Ukrainian revolution of Dignity happened 5 years ago when I was finishing high school. It`s hard to imagine how it was for me, 17 years old student, to face such a traumatic experience. In the time when students usually need to prepare to exams that will define their future, I was watching live translations from Kyiv or participated in local protests in my city.
According to the national exit poll showman Volodymyr Zelenskyi won the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine. According to the exit poll data collected by the time when the polling stations closed, 73 per cent of voters cast their votes for Zelenskyi, 25,5 per cent – for Petro Poroshenko.
