Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of...
edutorialAfter a ban Ukraine imposed on Russian state-funded media, their journalists stopped being able to shoot events on the ground. However, Russian TV found a workaround in order to continue spreading disinformation about Ukraine:...
On 12 December 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling to stop the construction of the NordStream2 pipeline and condemned Russia’s aggression in the Kerch Strait, calling for imposing additional targeted sanctions...
“You Always Place Me Between Two Foreigners” What just happened? Did Russian state media decide to drop disinformation and replace it with a democratic debate? Since when has the criticism of the authorities been allowed on prime-time...
Read more on the sham elections: Phony “elections” in Russia’s phony “republics” in Ukraine: a legitimization of the occupation The 9 persons are subject to EU restrictive measures, which involve a travel ban and asset freeze,...
On 12 December 2018, the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was awarded the EU Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. He was not there to receive it, as he is serving a 20-year sentence in a Siberian prison after Russia...
Most people today are focusing on bidding farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the great human rights activist that Vladimir Putin is trying to coopt as one of his own, or to the centenary of the birth of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose slogan...
Belittling Ukraine’s navy Last Sunday two of Russia’s most viewed TV channels told their audiences that the three Ukrainian vessels, which had been captured by the Russian side in the naval clash in the Azov Sea, represented one-third...
More than a year ago, Russian media started publishing claims of “Ukraine deepening the seabed for a NATO fleet at the Azov Sea.” In fact, no evidence to any such “NATO fleet” can be found. During the last summer...
On December 11 Ukrainian society was hit by the news of Roman Nasirov, ex-head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, being renewed at his position. Nasirov is suspected in causing UAH 2 bn ($73.7mn) of damage to the state. He is a...
On 13 December 2018, the summit of the European Council will be held, during which the issue of the continuation of sectoral sanctions against Russia will be discussed. Some EU member states, such as Italy, have already indicated that...
In hindsight, it should have been clear that the Russian Federation once again committed military aggression against Ukraine in the Sea of Azov to meddle with the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election and project Russian global power before...
Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years of history, humanity has not once been faced with any challenge and mortal threat comparable to the Putin regime,” a regime that...
Volodymyr Ariev, Ukrainian MP and Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe wrote on his FB page that the vandalism was linked to the “Yellow Vests” protests (gilets jaunes) that started...
Vladimir Putin has assembled “hundreds of Russian T-64 and T-62M tanks and thousands of military vehicles” only 18 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border in the environs of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk of Rostov Oblast. All this can be...
Twenty-seven years ago on December 8, 1991, the presidents of the RSFSR, the Belarusian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR signed the Belavezha Accords that annulled the 1922 Soviet union treaty and thus put a de jure end to the de facto...
The possibility that Vladimir Putin will return two or more of the Kurile Islands the Soviet Union seized at the end of World War II in exchange for a peace treaty with Japan has an important lesson for the world about Crimea: Russians...
The situation in the Azov Sea started aggravating in May 2018, when Russian border guards began detaining merchant shis going to the Ukrainian ports of Mariupol and Berdiansk or back to different countries. The arrests took place in the...
One of the clearest early warning signs of Moscow’s plans are suggestions in the Russian media that the country’s opponents are planning to do the same thing, a tactic that helps to distract attention from what Russia is doing and then...
Friendship treaty On 31 May 1997, then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin signed in Kyiv the wide-ranging Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian...
The 24 sailors Russia has seized and taken captive after a Russian attack on three Ukrainian Navy boats in the Azov Sea are prisoners of war, Ukrainian officials have said. This means that their arrest by Russia until 25 January 2019, and...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
