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A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people in their resistance by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war's decisive moments – from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut – to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide against Russia, one of the world's great military powers, in a modern-day battle of David and Goliath. Putin had intended to conquer and annex Ukraine with a vicious blitzkrieg, redrawing the map of Europe in a few short weeks with seismic geopolitical consequences. But in the face of this existential threat, the Ukrainian people fought back, turning what looked like certain defeat into a great moral victory, even as the territorial battle continues to seesaw to this day. This is the story of the epic bravery of the Ukrainian people – people Trofimov knows very well. For Trofimov, this war is deeply personal. He grew up in Kyiv and his family has lived there for generations. With deep empathy and local understanding, Trofimov tells the story of how everyday Ukrainian citizens – doctors, computer programmers, businesspeople, and schoolteachers – risked their lives and lost loved ones. He blends their brave and tragic stories with expert military analysis, providing unique insight into the thinking of Ukrainian leadership and mapping out the decisive stages of what has become a perilous war for Ukraine, the Putin regime, and indeed, the world. This brutal, catastrophic struggle is unfolding on another continent, but the United States and its NATO allies have become deeply implicated. As the war drags on, it threatens to engulf the world. We cannot look away. At once heart-breaking and inspiring, Our Enemies Will Vanish is a riveting, vivid, and first-hand account of the Ukrainian refusal to surrender. It is the story of ordinary people fighting not just for their homes and their families but for justice and democracy itself.

The article analyzes the key factors influencing pricing in the global oil market, conducted a retrospective analysis of its stages. It was noted that the vast majority of factors are closely interconnected, significantly correlated and dependent on each other. In this conditions, it became almost impossible to determine the actual degree of influence of each of them on the dynamics of oil quotations, which testified to the insufficient reliability of the factor analysis and the need to apply methods of technical analysis of securities at the index stage, in particular, analysis of time series with the isolation of trend, cycle and random components. A conclusion was made on the need to improve the quality of forecasting the dynamics of oil prices as an instrument to increase the efficiency of the functioning of the mechanism of the state regulation of the oil and gas complex, which made it possible to more reliably predict the oil and gas revenues of the budget, the main macroeconomic indicators, develop public programs, scenarios of long-term socio-economic development, etc.

During the ideological and economic competition of the Cold War, development and foreign aid had become important mechanisms to exhibit the superiority of each economic system, and to attempt to tie recipient countries to either bloc. This strategic implementation of soft power was initially prevalent with regards to the newly independent countries in Africa and South East Asia during the 1950s and the 1960s. The influence of modernization theory and the previous efforts of the Eisenhower administration to strengthen diplomatic relations with Latin America coupled with the peril of communist expansion drove the newly-elected Kennedy administration to launch the Alliance for Progress (AFP) in 1961. This article is organized in three sections, whereby the first chapter examines the factors for the amount of aid given to Bolivia; the second chapter will examine the factors for Colombia; the third chapter will examine the factors for the Venezuelan case This article hopes to shed new light on this policy, by providing a more nuanced explanation for the factors and context for why these three countries received the aid they did, rather than just simply stating 'to contain communism,' as has been discussed in the existing literature. Containing communism, and preventing another Cuba, was at the epicentre of the AFP policy – however, as this article hopes to illustrate the mechanism and understanding for containing it differed depending on each country. By providing an in-depth analysis of the local context, it will show that the allocation of aid was never solely determined by one factor. Instead, the AFP policy was driven by an understanding of perceived gains (that being, strengthening social reforms to make the country a showcase for progressive democracy and act as a bulwark against communism) and perceived losses (that being, preventing another Cuba and communist revolution).

In this article I examine the negotiations of national and sexual belonging of a Romanian gay sex worker in Berlin in the contemporary geosexual context defined by binarism between 'modern', 'liberal' and 'tolerant' Western Europe and its 'traditionalist' and
'homophobic' East European Other. I analyse how, by means of an overt display of his own homosexuality, the sex worker symbolically distances himself from his native country. By extension, this reinforces the image of the East and its inhabitants as inherently homophobic and, therefore, backwards. The article is based on ethnographic
research in the drop-in centre for male sex workers in Berlin, an environment that reveals how deeply contemporary geosexual differences are anchored in the cultural logic of everyday life.

The article investigates amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine which were submitted by the Law of Ukraine No. 2548-VIII of 18.09.2018 'On Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine Regarding Improvement of Ensuring the Rights of the Parties to Criminal Proceeding and Other Persons by Law Enforcement Agencies during Pre-Trial Investigation' regarding their reasonability to settle the relevant sphere of legal relationship. Attention has been drawn to the amended version of Art. 130 of the Criminal Procedure Code as well as to the compliance of this norm with similar prescriptions of the national legislation. It has been analyzed how the relevant procedures against the investigator and prosecutor if they caused damage being later compensated by the state to the parties of criminal proceedings were regulated. A new provision is evaluated according to its complexity and ability to ensure real effective regulation of the relevant sphere of legal relationships. The author proposes his own developments regarding systematical regulation of the relevant sphere of legal relationships as well as implementation of other provisions of substantive and procedural law. Provisions of an explanatory note to the Draft Law No. 8490 of 18.06.2018 'On Amendments to Some Legislative Acts of Ukraine Regarding Improvement of Ensuring the Rights of the Parties to Criminal Proceeding and Other Persons by Law Enforcement Agencies during Pre-Trial Investigation' regarding necessity to adopt the Law of Ukraine No. 2548-VIII of 18.09.2018. The author also proposes his own draft materials on possible development of the institute of compensation of damages caused by governmental officials.

This paper presents comparative analysis of the impact of changes in the economic and social situation in Europe on the volume and structure of bank liabilities generated by households. It also identifies downside risks to deposits volume and structure analyzing deposits dynamics in Russia. The approach to liquidity calculation indicators and stable part of banks' liabilities definition based on the use of portfolio of homogeneous deposits of mass categories of households is also proposed.