Anti-crisis expenses cut by half because there is no money at all. At least one trillion 375 billion rubles will be spent on saving the Russian economy from crashing in 2015. This sum was stated in the ‘Plan for the provision of stable...
When the ministers of foreign affairs of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia met in Berlin in the ‘Normandy format’ to discuss the ‘Donbas crisis’ (which, in reality, is war), I met someone who had been in Donbas for a long time...
At the emergency session of the Foreign Affairs EU Council on January 29, the heads of European diplomacy approved the decision to extend the sanctions against Russia. This issue was supposed to be discussed in March, however, the EU...
U.S. President Barack Obama told CNN in an interview that the U.S. would increase economic and diplomatic pressure on Russia until Putin does not decide to use diplomatic means to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine. At the same time, the...
In light of the mass renewals of combat in he east of Ukraine, the retreat of military units from what used to be Donetsk Airport today seems to only been one episode in the endless conflict with the Russian troops and their mercenaries in...
Almost one-third of the population in Donbas supported the separatists, according to a study conducted by civil organizations Donetsk Memorial and the Luhansk Civil Committee for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms of...
Social media and online outlets are actively discussing the issue that some Ukrainian stars, such as Verka Serdiuchka, Anastasia Prikhodko, Svitlana Loboda, Ivan Dorn and Ani Lorak, had been banned from performing at corporate parties in...
It is unlikely that anyone will remain impartial to the story about a military engineer, Frantsuz (‘Frenchman’ in Ukrainian), who calls himself a normal person. The fighter diffused hundreds of points, neutralized a big number of...
At the meeting on economic issues on December 18, Alexandr Lukashenko demanded that the government of Belarus calculated the cost of goods that are exported to Russia in USD or Euros. According to him, if Belarus pays Russia for oil and...
Minister Arsen Avakov promises that the bills for the MIA reform will be ready in January next year. He proposes to begin with getting rid of spare human resources – due to the creation of a new police attestation system. “Despite the...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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