The problem of the Russian occupation of Crimea and oppression of its indigenous Crimean Tatar people has been recently raised for the first time in the mediascape of Iran, a Middle Eastern regional power traditionally considered as an...
New players are clustering around Saakashvili and this does not bode well for Ukraine. Yesterday’s history with the breach of the border by supporters of the former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is but another chapter in the...
Former prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp, 92-year-old professor at the Ukrainian Engineering and Pedagogical Academy Ihor Malitsky recently rebuked a separatist who insulted Ukraine and Ukrainians in a Kharkiv café. “Today, I...
The objective of Kremlin’s hybression (“hybrid aggression“) is primarily to create chaos and a controlled conflict, rather than the fomenting a pro-Moscow public opinion on particular issues. That is why people acting as...
Last year, the Russian defense ministry has taken eight billion rubles (120 million US dollars) out of its weapons procurement budget to pay for past due bills for housing and communal services, and this year, it has taken 21 billion...
Autumn is a hot time for politics. On September 5, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) got back to work. Also, in Ukraine, autumn is a period of activated discussions about early parliamentary elections, no matter whether chances for...
Large-scale military exercises that include the U.S. and several other military units of NATO countries have kicked off in western Ukraine’s Yavoriv district. The military exercises focus on defensive operations and enhancing joint...
Since his arrest, Akhtem Chiygoz has spent more than 2,5 years or nearly 950 days behind bars. His mother died during the trial, in July 2017. On the demand of the international community, Russian authorities allowed the prisoner to see...
1. They are not independent Sputnik was created by a Presidential decree with the aim to “report on the state policy of Russia abroad”; RT is fully financed by the Russian government and is included in an official list of core...
Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, whose Ukrainian citizenship and passport were annulled after his relations with President Poroshenko went sour, crossed into the territory of Ukraine through the Polish-Ukrainian...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
