The local authorities of ORDLO (“certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts,” the official designation of the occupied territories in the east of Ukraine) were appointed by Russia to control the local population and economy....
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on 17 September 2016, when Ukrainian nationals Volodymyr Zhemchuhov and UN mission employee Yurii Suprun were released from...
Luhansk has been under the control of the Russian-hybrid forces since spring 2014. Moscow-installed local resident Igor Plotnitsky remained the political head of the “LNR” for three years. On 21 November, a dismissed...
The coup was triggered by a ruling of the so-called Luhansk city Leninskyi district court dismissing an “LNR” internal minister Igor Kornet. On 20 November, Russian-installed head of “LNR” Igor Plotnitsky signed a...
The elimination of Oleg Anashchenko At 7:50 of 4 February 2017, a car explosion in the center of Luhansk took the life of Oleg Anashchenko, “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LNR”) field commander and head of the...
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold, gasoline, and cigarettes are the main resources the separatists are fighting for in eastern Ukraine, an...
Each day, the medias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (“DNR” and “LNR”) try to persuade their population that their leaders lose sleep while working for the public good. However, while these...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
