The Russian occupation of Crimea started back in 2014, four years ago, following the three-month long Euromaidan protests in Ukraine, which culminated in nearly one hundred protesters being shot by police special units, after which...
“On 2 May 2018, having deliberated, the Tribunal issued its unanimous Award on the Merits, addressing issues pertaining to liability and damages,” the PCA press release reads. Russia has to compensate for losses from 21 March...
Russia attacked Moldova in 1992 turning its Transnistria region into a puppet “state.” In the same year, Russia invaded Abkhazia, a northwest region of Georgia. Another Georgian region, South Ossetia, was occupied in 2008. In...
Many commentators have pointed out that Stalin was the greatest state builder in Ukrainian history because he added more territory to Ukraine than anyone else and that Vladimir Putin is the greatest nation builder in Ukraine’s history...
On 22 August 2016, Ukraine’s General Prosecutors Office (GPO) released a video it says proves that top officials of the Russian Federation were involved in the illegal annexation of Crimea and stoking up separatist unrest in...
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have denounced the declaration by Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, that he is prepared to recognize the Russian seizure of...
The continuing de-Russification of Russia, caused by the influx of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus and the higher birthrates of non-Russian peoples within Russia, could be slowed or even reversed if Moscow annexed the Donbas,...
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial integrity because it is not a real state” is the fifth myth of “Krymnashism,” one that has deep roots but that is even...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime have put forward in justification of the Russian Anschluss of Crime. In “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” he takes on...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part of its “Crimea is Ours” campaign – the notion that the people of Crimea freely expressed their will regarding the annexation...
Here is everything you need to know about one of the most disturbing scenarios unraveling in a European institution. NOTE: This article has been, and will be updated according to the developing situation. What does PACE do, anyway? PACE,...
