Resources
Websites
Amnesty International Ukraine Page
Canada's Engagement in Ukraine
Canada's Response to the Crisis in Ukraine
CERES YouTube Channel (Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy)
Russia, Ukraine & International Law: On Occupation, Armed Conflict and Human Rights. (Human Rights Watch)
The Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy Subject Dossier War Against Ukraine
Kiel Institute for the World Economy Ukraine Support Tracker
MacDonald-Laurier Institute Foreign Policy Program
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Russia Invaded Ukraine (official website of Ukraine)
*** Russia-Ukraine War: Info and Ways to Help
UpNorth News from the Coolest Places on Earth Since 2003
World Federation of Free Latvians (PBLA–Latvian only)
Media
Žurnāls IR (in Latvian)
UATV English (Ukrainian state foreign language broadcaster)
UkraineWorld An English-language multimedia project about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine.
Washington Post Telegram channel
Podcasts
Ārskats (In Latvian from IR Magazine focussing on world events with Pauls Raudseps, Aivars Ozoliņš, and Tomass Pildegovičs)
BBC News Ukrainecast
Canadaland #760 Russia's Weapons of Mass Deception
- March 8, 2022, Fiona Hill on the War Putin is Really Fighting
- March 11, 2022, Masha Gessen: Putin is "Profoundly Anti-Modern"
- March 15, 2022, Timothy Snyder on the Myths that Blinded the West to Putin's Plans
BBC HARDtalk
- August 23, 2022, Krišjānis Kariņš, Latvian PM: Ukraine in a sense is fighting our war
Krustpunktā (in Latvian)
New Books in Eastern European Studies
- May 12, 2023, Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Šķiltava (in Latvian with Pauls Raudseps, Aivars Ozoliņš, and guests)
Sway March 10, 2022, Anne Neuberger: Are We Ready for Putin's Cyber War?
UkraineWorld Explaining Ukraine
Yale University History Course The Making of Modern Ukraine (Timothy Snyder)
YouTube
Serhii Plokhii and Timothy Snyder, The War in Ukraine and Universal Values, IWM Vienna, March 11, 2022. (Two historians of Ukraine in conversation)
Join an ad hoc group of Canadian Latvians on Whatsapp "Atbalsts Ukrainai"
Contact politika@lnak.org to join or Kaspars Reinis at 647-202-4819.
People to Follow
Edgars Rinkēvičs (@edgarsrinkevics), Krišjānis Kariņš (@krisjaniskarins), @Pabriks, @janis_sarts, Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum), Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder), Toomas Hendrik Ilves (@IlvesToomas), Marcus Kolga (@kolga), Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63), David Frum (@davidfrum), Matt Gurney (@mattgurney), Andrew Coyne (@acoyne), Masha Gessen (@mashagessen), Bill Browder (@Billbrowder), Bob Rae (@BobRae48), Pauls Raudseps (@raudseps), Ieva Vārna (@Ieva_Varna), Nellija Ločmele (@NellijaL), Inga Spriņģe (@IngaSpringe), Kristīne Garklāva (@kristine.garklava), Heather Cox Richardson (@HC_Richardson), Vladislav Davidzon (@VladDavidzon), Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv), Ilia Ponomarenko (@IAPonomarenko), José Andrés (@chefjoseandres), @Jessikka Aro, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (@STRATCOMCOE), @VeikoSpolitis, @ukraine_world
Substack
Timothy Snyder: Thinking about ... Opening the future by understanding the past