Muslims from Russia’s Middle Volga region who went to fight for the “DNR” and “LNR” in Ukraine were motivated by their sense of belonging to the Russian world Vladimir Putin has talked so much about, according to...
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to create an illusion of all-region wide decision to separate from Ukraine. This farce, organized with Russian...
The Kremlin has changed its strategy with regard to the territories controlled by the militants. What are the latest developments initiated by “DNR” and “LNR” terrorist groups? Is there a general Big Plan that includes the...
Vladimir Putin’s effort to create “Novorossiya” and his subsequent one to force Ukraine to accept Moscow-controlled bandit territories as part of its state have both failed, Andrey Piontkovsky says. And so the Kremlin leader...
Even as Vladimir Putin decreed that Moscow recognizes documents issued by its clients the “Donetsk Peoples Republic” and the “Luhansk Peoples Republic,” Russian officials in at least seven places in the Donbas are...
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin officially recognized passports and other documents issued by the “Donetsk Peoples Republic” and the “Luhansk Peoples Republic” as valid for entry into and living in the Russian Federation, an action...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
When France left Algeria in 1962 and Tunisia and Morocco in 1952, it was forced to take in a million “of its own people”, the so-called “pieds-noirs”. After the Second World War, Germany took in all the Germans from Eastern Europe,...
Given loose talk among some in the West about recognizing a Russian sphere of influence over the former Soviet space, a Moscow blogger has brought back yet another term from the past to describe what he says should be the basis for the...
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed a network of “DNR/LNR” agents who for months have been systematically informing enemy forces about Ukrainian defense lines in Toretsk (ex-Dzerzhynsk, only a few kilometers away from...
Four years since the start of its ‘Euromaidan’ revolution, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as an independent and viable state. But this report is not only about Ukraine’s struggle to hold together and resist Russia’s...
