Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the CPSU, received representatives of the chauvinist and anti-Semitic Pamyat organization, thus sending a signal that he was someone the KGB and...
Hello and welcome to Head-to-Head. It’s Vivica Williams and today we’re talking with Paul Niland, a political commentator based here in Kyiv. We’ll be talking about two cities and understanding what’s going on with the war in...
Just as Moscow opened the way to its annexation of Crimea by undermining Ukrainian positions in the Donbas, so too, if Vladimir Putin decides to officially incorporate parts of the Donbas into the Russian Federation, he would need to...
The story of Aleksandr Khomchenko, a Protestant clergyman from Donetsk, though sadly all too typical, is no less horrific. This pastor, who prayed for peace in the center of his native city, in his own homeland, was arrested and brutally...
Many people in Russia and the West are inclined to support Vladimir Putin and his policies however much they disagree with them because they believe that he is the only thing standing between the current situation and an even worse one...
Igor Girkin, ex-minister of defense of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” has once again publicly contradicted Russia’s official denials of its involvement in the war in Ukraine. Answering a question about...
Igor Girkin, ex-minister of defense of the so-called Donetsk Republic, who fled Donetsk in August of 2014, when Ukrainian forces began their suppression of terrorist forces, has now become a peculiar kind of self-whistle blower. Recently,...
On January 12, the official VKontakte page (a Russian version of Facebook) of the militia of “Novorossiya,” published a commentary of Igor Girkin, also known as Strelkov, a retired Russian FSB/GRU officer who played a key role...
Igor “Strelkov” Girkin, the former leader of Russian terrorists in Donetsk, urged Russia not “to keep head in the sand” and admit that it is fighting a war against Ukraine. He said this in an interview with the...
Igor Girkin (Strelkov) believes he and Putin may end up at the International Military Tribunal in the Hague, Espreso TV reports, December 13, citing the Russian online publication Dozhd (Rain). According to Girkin, this will happen if the...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
