Forum for Ukrainian Studies

03/24/2026

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐒𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓) 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐳 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐰𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢
19 April 2026 | 7:00 p.m.
Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre
Soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two estranged sisters from Warsaw embark on a journey through war-torn Ukraine, to bring home their wounded father. Absent from each other's lives for a decade, the sisters reunite. Their meeting opens old wounds and reveals truths that were easier to forget than face.
Diving into the emotional trauma of the sisters’ reunion, director Lukasz Karwowski creates a viewing experience that makes the drama feel realistic and vivid. Along the journey, the sisters must walk, hitchhike, and travel by car through war-ravaged Ukraine, moving in and out of occupied territories, meeting and dealing with an array of characters, while navigating danger and their own relationship.
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03/17/2025

The Russian opposition’s discourse is all about money—not the carnage that Moscow inflicts on its neighbours and colonized nations.

"Ukraine shall decide the fate of the whole region—Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Federation’s colonized national republics."

02/09/2025

"Argentina experienced disappearances during our country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s. Many people were disappeared, including children, because they were born in captivity after their parents were taken away. We can share this experience of tracking the children and helping to bring them back. This is one of my subjects of study. I am horrified by this enormous theft of Ukrainian children, which is genocide in my view, because they are cutting out the roots of the people. They are taking the children and forcing them to think differently. And afterwards, what will they do? Send them back to Ukraine, thinking like Russians and educated as Russians?"

"There’s no other way to fight disinformation than with the truth. It is the only weapon you have against disinformation."

01/19/2025

Frozen Russian assets are Europe’s trump card; Russia’s shadow fleet fuels war economy while dodging sanctions.

CIUS weekly report on media coverage of Ukrainian affairs. The most-read and relevant articles about Ukraine during 5–11 January 2025.

01/16/2025

In this report: the USA lacks a strategy of maximum pressure on Russia; Europe is still dependent on Russian energy.

CIUS weekly report on North American media coverage of Ukrainian affairs, 29 December 2024–4 January 2025. Only the most-read and relevant articles.

12/10/2024

In this report: five conditions that have changed globally; bad peace is more expensive; Trump’s peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is not viable; robust security guarantees key to successful peace talks with Putin.

CIUS weekly report on North American media coverage of Ukrainian affairs, 24–30 November 2024. Only the most-read and relevant articles.

11/25/2024

Europe can take over the role of the US in Ukraine.

CIUS weekly report on North American media coverage of Ukrainian affairs, 10–16 November 2024. Only the most-read and relevant articles.

11/06/2024

Last year, the Forum interviewed Mitchell Orenstein, and here is what he had to say about Trump and what his victory could mean for Ukraine.

"Time is probably on the side of Ukraine in this war, as long as it has solid backing from its Western partners."

10/31/2024

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐤𝐢 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐲𝐚'𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 Forum for Ukrainian Studies:
"Donbas, like any other region of Ukraine, has its own specificity, it has always been Ukrainian ethnic territory and should not be demonized as Ukraine’s “Other.” Of course, we generally seek to listen to others in order to understand them. The problem is that neither listening nor understanding are simple or straightforward. The Donbas region (today’s Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts), an industrial center of coal mining and metallurgy, has a complex history that tends to baffle and challenge outside observers. The war Russia unleashed against Ukraine in 2014 makes Zhadan’s call for hearing the Donbas without prejudice all the more appropriate and timely."

"The recent Ukrainian literature on the Donbas demonstrates how important the Donbas remains to both Ukraine’s intellectual life and Ukraine’s existence as a sovereign state."

10/21/2024

Ukraine’s membership in NATO would be a guarantee of peace in Europe.

CIUS weekly report on North American media coverage of Ukrainian affairs, 6–12 October 2024. Only the most-read and relevant articles.