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...
Euromaidan Press sat down with Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Acting Director of Huffington Ecumenical Institute, Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, former Chairman of the Department for External Church...
