I wrote the January 2023 short paper on the lost cause of the Novorossiyan state.

I would like to thank my editors Daniel Spitkovskyi and Nuur Majzoub for their brilliant comments and suggestions that improved and polished my text. Special thanks to my mum, Lord Beaverbrook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jack Cousteau, and his wifie Mimi, my tailor, The London Symphony Orchestra Brass Section, Bismarck, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds, St Francis of Assisi, Earl Haig, Wile E. Coyote, Mother Teresa, Dame Agatha Christie, the planet Saturn and, of course, all of its rings, the Publicity Department of Turkish Airlines, the unknown soldier, and last, but not least, God.

My team and I organised the 2023 Amsterdam Policy Prize as part of the APP committee: we set a new European Horizons standard with our policy writing competition centred around the existential threat that disinformation poses for the Western democracies: "Safeguarding Democracy in the Digital Disinformation Age". I would like to thank my team members Max Pralle, Anna Ratonyi, Simona Yordanova, Vlada Hancu, Max van Groeningen, and our competitions director Theodor Azbej, for their tireless effort and good work put into this competition.