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Odesa celebrates Constitution DayToday in Odesa to celebrate Constitution Day, thousands gathered on the Potemkin Stairs to unveil a massive Ukrainian flag in support of the military in eastern Ukraine. The city celebrated the 18th...
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RNBO: News & Analysis Center June 28 UpdateOVERALL INFORMATION OF INFORMATIONAL-ANALYTICAL CENTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE COUNCIL OF UKRAINE (RNBO) AS OF JUNE 28, 12PM As of the morning of June 28, 2014 the situation in... -
Italian MP uses Russian sci-fi footage to illustrate Ukrainian “crimes”Russian propaganda has reached Rome. Aggressive Russian propaganda became the object of discussion in Rome during the meeting of Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian ambassadors with journalists. At the end of... -
Ukraine takes another step on western path it chose 800 years agoYesterday, Kyiv took another big step on the road to the West by signing an association agreement with the European Union, and Moscow not unexpectedly responded by saying it would... -
Russian blogger: Four facts about the war in Ukraine which Russians don’t want to admitThe situation in Donbas is a tragedy. But it a very simple tragedy with a very understandable authorship, with very understandable directors, with a very understandable creative intent, fabula and... -
InfoResist: The roadblock we lostKyiv’s silence the destroyed roadblock evokes, let’s say, some confusion. The main news on the Ukrainian Yandex today is “a 3-meter wave washed away a beach near Odesa.” And only... -
Vitaliy Portnikov: Russia needs a new object for aggressionThe Kremlin will only leave Ukraine alone after the empire gets a new object for hatred. For example, Tatarstan and Chechnya. Will the relations with Russia really not normalise? Will... -
Putin’s ideologist, chauvinist philosopher Dugin fired from workThe ideologist of “Eurasianism” and supporter of “Novorossiya” left the Moscow University. The famous Russian chauvinistic philosopher Alexandr Dugin was fired from the Moscow University on June 27th, after the... -
Top 13 Terrorists in Eastern Ukraine: a gravedigger, a criminal, a drug dealer, Santa Claus, and a fertiliser salesmanIn times of peace these people would be unlikely candidates for any dignified government offices. The majority of them showed no interest for politics until spring 2014. The publication “Gordon”... -
Famous activist Parasiuk addresses PoroshenkoParasiuk was the young man who got up on the Maidan stage in February and spoke out vehemently against any negotiations with Yanukovych and Co. The next day, Yanukovych fled... -
1.7. “Putins Demokratur” in KölnBuchvorstellung von und mit Boris Reitschuster -
U.S. tech companies have a lot at stake in Ukraineby Brett Wilson, Co-Founder and CEO, TubeMogul June 26, 2014 An astounding number of American technology companies employ engineers in Ukraine, but you might never know it. The Ukrainian tech industry... -
New York Times: A battle in Ukraine echoes through the decadesWhen the war erupted nearly a century ago, Russian forces mobilized and swiftly captured the western city of Lviv and the surrounding region of eastern Galicia. Aleksei Brusilov, a Russian... -
Fools, Tools, and PutinversteherBy Thomas C. Theiner A fools mind, coupled with low education, ignorance, and folly, are the unifying traits of Putin’s Western adulators on the political Left, who all sooner or... -
How does Ukraine benefit from signing the association agreement with the EU?What will change after signing the agreement? Eight benefits to Ukraine after signing the Association Agreement with the European Union: corruption decrease. Changes will happen in governing state finances and... -
Merkel and Putin want to turn Ukraine into a weak confederation – RomanenkoThe talks between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, President of France Francois Hollande and the head of Russia Vladimir Putin show that a new “Molotov-Ribbentropp... -
Russian woman names son ‘Torput’ – “Putin’s Victory”After Bebelinas, Pestelinas and Dazdrapermas a new era in naming Russian children has come. Svetlana Mishurova from the city of Voronezh decided to call her son Torput – “Torzhestvo Putina”... -
Kuchma, Medvedchuk and the talks in Donbas. Why hysteria is dangerousDestroy the enemy in Donbas immediately and live a normal life? Isolate the region from Ukraine? No illusions needed, all of this won’t work. One can understand the Ukrainians’ weariness.... -
Putin’s complex game in UkraineBridget Kendall, diplomatic correspondent, BBC News What is President Putin up to? Let us return to the end of March: Putin annexed Crimea, all the while denying the participation of... -
Post from the editor: So what’s it like? The psychology of warComfortable life in uncomfortable times, as seen by a college student from Kyiv. *** So, what’s it like? is the question I have been hearing in some form or other,...
