The Ukrainian music group “Lisapetniy battalion” has filmed a new clip to the music of Natalia Falion – “Come on, you old broads”. In the video the “battalion” members are ready to protect the...
Oleksandr Paliy for UP Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 12:01 When the current Russian government throws angry accusations of “accomplices to Nazism”, it should have first removed the plank from its own eye. One could start with...
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by Artyom Krechetnikov, BBC Russia, Moscow The figure of Stepan Bandera is once again in the spotlight, in connection with the revolutionary developments in Ukraine. Moscow commentators and participants of pro-Russian demonstrations...
1. Common origins? For more than 300 years, ‘Moskovia’ was… ‘Moskovia’ This is key for proper understanding… up until the early 1700s, most maps, government documents and all other records throughout...
Konstantin Sigov, 16 February 2014 Greetings to you from Kyiv, where I find myself at the moment. For several months, I have been waking up thinking of the people who spend their nights on Independence Square, called Maidan, in Kyiv. Their...
Fourteen protesters describe why they came to Maidan, what they were doing, and what they want Was it terribly scary on Hrushevsky Street? It wasn’t, when it was heavy action. I’m opposed to Yanukovych because of the low...
Vika Yasynska, a photographer from Kyiv, met with people representing the medical profession at Maidan. They are from all over Ukraine, with different fates, united with a common purpose and the confidence that they will remain here as...
Kyiv is relatively calm now, so it’s just the right time to study Maidan in detail. Almost everybody has heard that word, but not everybody imagines how everything works here. Now the protesters occupy Kyiv’s center –...
What continues to amaze me is the lack of understanding among the general public and even politicians in the West that we are watching historical events evolve before our eyes. A country of 53 million and the size of France is going...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
