The second “DNR ex-minister” surrenders to Ukraine On 25 September, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that SBU Counter Intelligence Department managed to transfer a former “DNR minister of agrarian policy and...
A declaration by the Romanian defense minister that his country is concerned by the increased Russian presence the Black Sea is encouraging Kyiv which welcomes such a statement by a senior official of a NATO country as an indication that...
All of the Kremlin’s recent actions — from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now to the replacement of governors who while loyal failed to perform adequately — is part of a smoke screen behind which the Russian...
Archbishop Klyment of Simferopol and Crimea says that once autocephaly is granted to Ukraine, the Russian occupation forces on the Ukrainian peninsula are likely to dramatically increase the pressure they have used against his bishopric...
A young woman walks up to a man in a subway train and pours liquid over him from a plastic bottle. The scene is repeated a number of times with different men who all react with anger and bewilderment. We are told that they are being...
Tailored for disinformation heavy users: Conspiracy theories on Biological Weapons Just to highlight some examples: 2016: The US is constructing secret biological labs in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine to attack Russia. 2017:...
By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with it, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Vladimir Putin not only showed the way in which he views relations among states as the same as...
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Russian military analyst, says that even though Moscow will not confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea, there can be no doubt that the Russians have placed them there because of...
Many commentators are suggesting that Vladimir Putin may seek “a new Crimea” to salvage his ratings with the Russian people, but Vitaly Portnikov says that he “doesn’t think that anyone in the Kremlin was thinking about ratings...
At a recent press conference in Kyiv, Klyment, Archbishop of the Simferopol and Crimea Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate announced that the Russian Arbitration Court in Crimea had ruled that premises belonging to the Crimean...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
