There are 65 million of us Ukrainians all over the world, and there are already hundreds of millions of us who have become Ukrainians in recent days by vocation of spirit and conscience.

A persistent nuclear Russian menace is not the world we want. It is equal to if not more dangerous than global warming. The lesson to be learned is that most Russians in terms of chauvinism and imperialism rise to the level at least of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, however much he is admired in the West. Thus, the demise of Vladimir Putin would be only a temporary reprieve.