L'invasion à grande échelle de l'Ukraine par la Russie en février 2022 n'a pas seulement imposé des coûts considérables à la société ukrainienne. Elle a fondamentalement restructuré l'État ukrainien — et ce d'une manière à la fois intrinsèquement contradictoire et de plus en plus auto-destructrice. Tel est l'argument central de cet important article de Volodymyr Artiukh et Taras Fedirko, publié dans Focaal en 2025, qui s'appuie sur deux axes de recherche de terrain : les enquêtes (…)

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provoked a fundamental restructuring of the Ukrainian state in ways that are internally contradictory and increasingly self-undermining. That is the central argument of this important article by Volodymyr Artiukh and Taras Fedirko, published in Focaal in 2025, which draws on two intersecting lines of fieldwork: Artiukh's long-term ethnographic research among Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania, and Fedirko's study of civic elites (…)

The killing of Melkiana Duwitau — a 31-year-old woman, 32 weeks pregnant — in Intan Jaya, Central Papua, on 2 July 2026 is the latest documented case in an escalating pattern of civilian deaths from Indonesian military operations in the Papuan highlands. Komnas HAM's Papua chapter has described violence in Intan Jaya as escalating “in both scale and intensity, with a growing tendency of targeting civilians.” Over 105,000 civilians across Papua had already been internally displaced by (…)