The Normandy Four meeting with the participation of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany took place in Berlin on the night of 19-20 October. The negotiations lasted for 4 hours, accompanied by protests outside the residence of...
French President François Hollande may say that Russia is not a threat but a partner “who sometimes uses force” as much as he wants. The question is not even if Hollande believes it himself. The main thing is that Moscow does...
Kyiv must reject calls by Berlin and Paris to change the Ukrainian constitution and allow elections in the occupied Donbas because these calls, which reflect Moscow’s exploitation of the desire of the two European leaders to be seen as...
On 13 February 2016, the leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany, and Russia will once again meet to discuss the peace deal that was supposed to be a political resolution for an undeclared war in East Ukraine, but is now...
No, this is no longer appeasement. Few have dared to call German and French negotiation strategies with Russia in the Normandy-group and beyond as what they have been from the beginning: vain efforts to appease Russia (they haves been...
The Normandy Four in which Moscow has placed so much faith as a way of advancing its interests and splitting off Europe from the United States over Ukraine has in fact divided into two groups, the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine on...
In an appeal to the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine who are meeting in Berlin tomorrow, Refat Chubarov, the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, says that “a threat to the very existence of his nation hangs over it in...
The toughening of the West’s position on Ukraine, very much in evidence at the G7 meeting, reflects the fact that Vladimir Putin has fundamentally misread the situation and not taken advantage of the face-saving measures which the West...
“Let me guess… Frau Merkel believes the Minsk peace plan is ‘damaged but not dead’. Monsieur Hollande vows ‘to do everything to keep it alive’. Petro Poroshenko is vacillating between martial law and UN...
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) released the following statement on developments in Ukraine on February 17: “The Chancellor of Germany and the President of France, with the support of the President of the...
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...
