“Behemoth” On 7 September, the Prague City Court sentenced in absentia to 20 years of prison time Czech national Jiří Urbánek (call sign Behemoth) for being a member of a terrorist group and committing a terrorist attack....
Developments in “DNR” and “LNR”: 23 June – 22 July 2021 Russian election campaign begins in Donetsk and Luhansk Russia’s ruling political party, United Russia, began campaigning in the “People’s Republics” for the State...
In late April, Berlin-based project Civicmonitoring.org issued the annual report “Towards de-facto annexation? Current developments in the ‘People’s Republics’ of eastern Ukraine 2020/2021“ authored by Nikolaus...
Russia abandoned the ceasefire in Ukraine’s east in early February (see EDM, February 18) and persists with low-intensity positional warfare to date, killing and wounding several Ukrainian soldiers every week. Ukraine responds with...
Reliable statistics in the occupied territories? One of the main problems in Ukraine’s ORDLO* policy is the lack of reliable figures that would correctly reflect the situation in the occupied territories of the Donbas. This issue is...
The results from a survey conducted in the south-Ukrainian city of Mariupol indicate that the Ukrainian nation-building process needs to overcome major hurdles in this city, most notably its population’s anti-western geopolitical...
Luhansk and war I have no memories of how the war started in Luhansk. I wasn’t very much aware of what was happening back then. Of course, I heard all sorts of rumours, but there was little true information. I was in Luhansk when the...
The Russian occupation administrations in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region are recruiting militants for participating in “actions” outside Ukraine, in all likelihood – in Belarus, the ZMINA human rights center...
“I believe that if the United States allocates $300 million for military aid to Ukraine, it will open the door for us to help the people that they want to shoot at with those weapons, namely the DNR and LNR. Therefore, we also have the...
Russia, Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and ORDLO representatives from Donetsk and Luhansk worked out this document in the Minsk Contact Group format. The document officializes the “ORDLO armed...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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