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2015/03/05 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Budapest has announced that it has handed out Hungarian citizenship papers to 94,000 people in Transcarpathia in Western Ukraine in expedited fashion, an action that creates yet another challenge for Kyiv and may very well have been...
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2015/03/05 •
Analysis & Opinion, Featured
The eastern part of Mariupol was hit by Grad rocket fire on January 24. A month has gone by but most of the windows in the high-rise buildings of the residential area of the Skhidnyi district, which came under fire, are still wrapped in a...
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2015/03/05 •
Crimea, Crimea one year of annexation
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2015/03/05 •
News, Russia
“I was cured allright” (Anthony Burgess, “A Clockwork Orange”) Butirsky regional court of Moscow has stated its final verdict on the case of a teenage school shooter Sergey Gordeyev, who last year shot and killed his geography...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
A year ago, Marina Saidukova, a Buryat writer, said how devastating it was that one of her teachers told her that “you are so beautiful that you are almost a Russian,” something so offensive and damaging that she has never been able to...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
No one would deny that Vladimir Putin now has a cult of personality. However, that is not an explanation but rather something that must be explained, especially given its evolution from one in which he was backed as a lesser evil than...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Leningrad Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko says the Izhors, a Finno-Ugric group numbering 26,000, and the supporters of a largely Internet-based project calling for the establishment of an autonomous republic uniting Finno-Ugric and Slavic...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Crimea one year of annexation
Since the Anschluss, Russia’s occupation authorities have tried a variety of means to shut down the Crimea Tatar Mejlis, the most important organization of the group that has most consistently opposed Moscow’s illegal annexation of the...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and continuing aggression against Ukraine means that Ukrainians will never again accept ethnic Russians as “a fraternal people” or be prepared to defer to Moscow unless they are compelled to by...
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2015/03/04 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Moscow’s actions in Ukraine have had an impact on ethnic relations within the Russian Federation, given that they call into question the stability of borders and even existing ethnic balances and political relations between the center...
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2015/03/04 •
News
As a result of a special operation conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a sabotage and reconnaissance group was arrested in Kharkiv that was working with the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian...
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2015/03/04 •
Crimea, Crimea one year of annexation, Politics
The Polish Film Academy has called to release Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian filmmaker who is being held in detention in Moscow for his protest against the annexation of Crimea. On 3 March 2015 all the invited guests during the award...
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2015/03/04 •
Op-ed
At first, he was just a drop in the ocean. Then, with a red cross on his back, he was helping people until a sniper bullet hit his leg. After all he has been through, he will never be the same: Roman Kotliarevsky, biologist and logistics...
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2015/03/04 •
Featured, News, Politics, War in the Donbas
“The main problem of the conflict in Donbas is not a military defeat or humanitarian crisis, but rather the absence of understanding among the authorities and population of where we are going, what we want, and how this is to be...
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2015/03/03 •
News, Stories from the Front, War in the Donbas
I am deeply sad. Today I talked with soldiers of the 55th brigade of the Ukrainian army at the Luhansk front. Guys from the very front line, which really isn’t a line but instead already surrounded on its flanks by Russian units, under...
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2015/03/03 •
Analysis & Opinion
Vladimir Putin is continuing to use the Minsk-2 agreements for further occupation of Ukrainian territory. The first point of the plan allowed the Russians to capture the important Debaltseve transportation hub. Now the second point follows...
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2015/03/03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The climate of fear and hatred that Vladimir Putin has created in Russia which first was directed against Chechens and then immigrants and gays, is now to the surprise of no one familiar with Russian history and with the propensity of...
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2015/03/03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
In words that some will dismiss as being like those of the little boy who cried wolf and that others will see as a cry of despair, Latvian TV journalist Olga Dragilyeva says that Moscow has launched a hybrid war against Latvia by using its...
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2015/03/03 •
News
This is a recent account by an acquaintance who has miraculously succeeded in leaving the city and reaching territory under Ukrainian control. I remained in Debaltseve until the end, even during the evacuation. It was frightening to...
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2015/03/03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Op-ed
Whoever goes looking for the true reasons for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine doesn’t need to bother with conspiracy theories. One of the most important sources is as trivial as it is obvious: because there is money to be made. And...
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