I am pleased to have an opportunity to share some of my thoughts on forgiveness and victimhood. Please join—in person or online—at 12:30 New Haven time or 19:30 Vilnius time.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 "Memory. War" discussion between Lithuanian and Ukrainian philosophers @VBachmetjevas and Vakhtang Kebuladze took place in the #Kharkiv Literary Museum.
The philosophers talked about memory and its influence on our future choices.
@FinancialTimes special report on Lithuania, featuring energy, fintech, photography, and... basketball. An interesting view from outside and a good overview of where we stand. https://t.co/7uHKIYwbDj
Good evening. Day 5 after the latest Russian attack on Kyiv. Day 277 of the war. I am president of the Kyiv School of Economics, a former minister of economy of Ukraine, and a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I left the US for Kyiv 4 days before the war 1/
@PhSteinkrueger @marijemartijn He's obsessed with Rubik's cubes exclusively, I am afraid, all shapes and sizes. It turns out there are 2x2, 4x4 shapes, a pyramid and what not. But he's getting all the information on youtube rather than books.
A very good opportunity for all those Russian artists of 'don't mix politics with culture' persuasion to come out and strongly condemn Russian army. But I am not holding my breath. https://t.co/8G3Qh5r9KG
He also was a coward who in his failed attempt to save the Soviet Union sent tanks against peaceful protesters. Not acknowledging such simple obvious truths is a form of myopia which Western leaders practice toward Russia and former Soviet Union again and again and again.
Mikhail Gorbachev was a trusted and respected leader. He played a crucial role to end the Cold War and bring down the Iron Curtain. It opened the way for a free Europe.
This legacy is one we will not forget.
R.I.P Mikhail Gorbachev