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Kirill Mikhailov has been an anti-Putin activist and citizen journalist, taking part in the widespread Russian protests of 2011-2012. After the annexation of Crimea he left Russia for Ukraine and has been a volunteer author/translator since. Follow him on @ReggaeMortis1.
On the 7th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war, it is worth to once again take a look at this first application of Kremlin’s tactics we’ve seen years later in Ukraine Over the years since the Russian war of aggression in Georgia, a...
As 145 white trucks rolled into Ukraine through Russian-controlled Izvarine on 22 August 2014, all the eyes of the Western and local media was on Putin’s new “humanitarian aid convoy” motion. Journalists followed the huge column from...
Shyrokyne is a strategic village 8 kilometers to the east of Mariupol, a Ukrainian-held city of 450,000 on the coast of the Azov sea. Since August last year, the invaders have been probing Mariupol’s defenses. While a key port itself,...
This timeline attempts to track the shootout in the town of Mukacheve in Sub-Carpathian Western Ukraine involving Right Sector nationalist volunteer fighters and the following events as they happened. It is based on information from local...
Despite Russian propaganda’s allegations of Ukraine’s new government’s attempts to erase the victory over Nazism from memory, Ukrainians continue to produce works of art linking their fight for independence to the...
Today Greece’s defense minister Pannos Kammenos, head of the right-wing “Independent Greeks” party, while on his visit to a Moscow security conference, claimed in an interview to Russian news outlet gazeta.ru, inter alia:...
In an apparent response to the laws recently adopted by the Ukrainian parliament, banning propaganda and symbols of Nazi and Soviet regimes and recognizing the WWII Ukrainian Insurgent Army, among others, as Ukrainian freedom fighters,...
Ever since the illegal annexation of Crimea, human rights watchdogs have been concerned with the drastic human rights decline, such as denial of freedom of assembly as well as arrests and kidnapping of pro-Ukrainian activists. In September...
Since Saturday, when Russia’s FSB director Bortnikov announced two men from the North Caucasus to be accused of the murder of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, news outlets and social media have been digging deeply in the...
9 August 2014 – As Russian media continues to spew propaganda putting the blame for the MH17 tragedy on Ukraine, dissenting voices within Russia still can be heard. In this video Russian opposition activists Boris Nemtsov and...
Abstract This report investigates the attempted – and partly “successful” – Russian influence in the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as in organizations in its “entourage.” It starts with the Vienna-based...
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