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Dear friend! 2015 was a year of contrasts for Ukraine. This year’s journey to fulfilling the promise of Euromaidan was laden with…
Year: 2015
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When crises become permanent: Russia vs. Ukraine
Man is not a pig, Dostoevsky observed; he can get used to anything. But the process of adapting…
Chubarov: If power is restored in Crimea on January 1, it will mean we’ve been betrayed
At a press conference in Kyiv, Refat Chubarov spoke on behalf of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar…
Russian Orthodox Church returning to Soviet-era norms, Bychkov says
Vladimir Putin’s restoration of Soviet-era norms has hit the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP)…
12 Crimean personalities of 2015 designated by Krym.Realii
A heated debate broke out among Krym.Realii staff when we decided to draw up a list of the…
Is Putin preparing to expand the war to Kherson?
The blockade and blackout of Crimea got the Kremlin’s attention. Putin may be preparing a response to expand…
Parents of Crimean pupil summoned because of drawing showing a Ukrainian flag and Tatar tamgas
The parents of a Crimean pupil were called in by the Simferopol school administration for a “preventive and…
Ukraine’s loud arrest of “Poroshenko’s main political opponent”: what you need to know
One of the Dnipropetrovsk-based UKROP party leaders Henadiy Korban has found himself under the spotlight on the morning…
War crimes in occupied Donbas: every second prisoner tortured, 16% witnessed executions
Terror as a Method of Warfare In the spring of 2014, armed thugs started to kidnap and torture people…
Dissident artist Alla Horska murdered 45 years ago
Ukrainian artist Alla Horska was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her father-in-law’s apartment in Vasilkiv, Kyiv oblast…
Bandera cats at war in the Donbas (photo report)
ATO soldiers love their battalion cats, share food with them, give them shelter and even dedicate poems to…
Unpunished for Maidan pacification, Berkut militia becomes Ukraine’s New Police
Ukraine’s glamorous new Patrol Police is only the tip of the iceberg in Ukraine’s law-enforcement system reform. A vast…
Euromaidan revolution now commemorated in symphonic piece by American composer
The American composer Matthew Brown has written a symphonic piece to commemorate the Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution. It premiered…
Stalin-era sacralization of state why Russians overwhelmingly back Putin, Siberian scholar says
The Soviet substitution in the 1930s of the state as the idol of the crowd for religious faith…
Donbas on its way to becoming Chechnya of 1998, Babchenko says
However much some in Russia, the West, or even in Ukraine may hope that the Donbas will become…
Ukraine as a theme for Dutch populist politics
It definitely was not the most pleasant sight, watching how MP Oleh Barna grabbed Prime-Minister Yatseniuk by the…
Ukraine’s Parliament passed the much-needed 2016 budget
On 24-25 December, when the world was awaiting Christmas, Ukrainian MPs endured a law-making 20-hour marathon. After passing…
Top 10 fakes of Russian propaganda about Ukraine in 2015
With nearly a week left in 2015, it may be too soon to close the book on Moscow’s…
![Vladimir Putin's wrestling coach, the person who reportedly helped him get admitted to the Leningrad State University using his connections, was one of the city's top criminals, had served 20 years in prison, and died in a gang battle at 57. Putin admiringly wrote about him in his memoirs called "From the First Person" without using the coach's surname or mentioning his criminal links (for obvious reasons). As the engraving on his grave stone states, the coach Leonid Ionovich Usvyatsov composed the epitaphs himself. [Translator: Please note that in the original Russian the epitaphs crudely rhyme, but the translation did not attempt to reproduce rhyming prioritizing accuracy instead.] The epitaph on the front panel says: "A grave and on the grave there is an epitaph: 'I am dead, but mafia is immortal.'" The back panel is engraved with the following epitaphs: "Hooray! I finally died!!! All of my life I worked for broads like a slave. Now I won't spend a kopeck on this liver sausage anymore." "I gave her my two final bangs and then was carried away on a hearse." "Let's drink to us all, because the curtain will soon fall." (Image: openrussia.org)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/4bbcb9a683811.gif)
Kremlin’s censorship of Shenderovich interview spotlights Putin’s mafia connections
The decision of the Russian authorities to take down an interview Russian commentator Viktor Shenderovich gave on Ekho…
Young people proud to be Ukrainians despite the circumstances, new poll reveals
The driving force of Ukraine, its young people, are patriots, despite the hardships the country faces, a recent study carried out…