Ukraine’s memorandum comprised 17,500 pages and weighed 90 kilos. A special cart was used to transport the documents: The fundamental reasoning of the Ukrainian case is two-fold: First, to prove that DNR and LNR (Donetsk and Luhansk...
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the USSR, and Gorbachev’s comeback to Moscow, The New York Times proclaimed that Russians were ready to undertake “a colossal task of...
When the arsons began As early as at the night of 6 February 2019, unknown persons set fire to the temple of Oleksiy Karpatoruskyi, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate and located in Zaporizhzhia in...
At first glance, the attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk appears to be but one of a series of similar terrorist acts in the Russian Federation, Natalya Gulevskaya says; but a closer examination of the personality of the criminal, his...
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group, Igor Eidman says; and once a Kremlin leader demonstrates he is ready to use this technique, the potential hit list...
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of their crimes is that many in both Russia and the West tend to treat each one as unique rather than see the linkages that exist among them, be it...
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that he might do either because the Ukrainian peninsula’s residents speak Russia or because that might allow for...
Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities are preparing some sort of provocation in occupied Crimea, one they will blame on Kyiv as part of their continuing effort to discredit it in the eyes of the West, according...
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...
As British investigators probe the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, international consensus continues to grow that Moscow was behind the attempted assassination. EU Heads of State and Government have voiced...
During the hearing, the judge gave defendant Vitaliy Markiv the opportunity to make a final statement. The soldier said that he would not go into more detail because his lawyers had explained everything in previous court hearings. “I am...
