The bill was submitted two days ago by representatives of the ruling party Servant of the People, Davyd Arakhamia and Oleksandr Korniyenko. 320 MPs voted for the legislation, with a majority being 226 votes. The law does not grant autonomy...
The Normandy Four meeting scheduled for 9 December might very well be one of the most important events since the start of the Russian aggressions in 2014. While trying to predict the outcome of the first Normandy Four meeting since 2016,...
Returning peace to Ukraine is the main priority of President Zelenskyy. He wishes to restore negotiations in the Normandy format and unblock the Minsk process in order to end the war in Donbas. Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Vadim Prystayko,...
“Steinmeier’s formula,” which specifies that the Ukrainian law on the “special status” of occupied Donbas will come into force after local elections are held there, has become the hottest war-related...
On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament, or Verkhovna Rada, adopted the law on the reintegration of Donbas in its second reading, with 280 out of the total 450 deputies voted in favor. The law gives Russia the status of an occupying...
“Donbas laws” Re-integration law The first bill “On the specifics of the state policy to ensure the state sovereignty of Ukraine over temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk and Luhansk...
The objective of Kremlin’s hybression (“hybrid aggression“) is primarily to create chaos and a controlled conflict, rather than the fomenting a pro-Moscow public opinion on particular issues. That is why people acting as...
The Minsk peace process is so far seen as the only way to stop the war between combined Russian-separatist forces and the Ukrainian army in Donbas. There was a Minsk-1 first signed in September 2014, and then a Minsk-2 adopted in February...
One of the most difficult issues for Ukraine is the problem of conducting elections in the occupied territories in Donbas. On the one hand, the President Petro Poroshenko is under pressure from Ukraine’s international partners, because...
The proposal by French MP Thierry Mariani to impose sanctions against Ukraine for not implementing the Minsk-II agreements may appear at first glance as the eccentric antics of a Putin supporter who is using it to draw attention to the...
In part one, I conceptualized the Hybrid War. I argued that it is a long term strategy, aimed at ensuring victory through parallel and synchronized use of military and non-military means. Read part 1: What if? Hybrid War and consequences...
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