Russian regional affairs analyst Anton Chablin points out that the recently released budget figures for 2021 show enormous spending on Crimea is set to continue. Moscow plans to channel no less than 102 billion rubles ($1.5 billion) to...
The Austrian architecture company Coop Himmelb(l)au, which designed an opera theater complex in Russian-occupied Crimea, had secretly worked on the project after public denials. This follows from information shared with Euromaidan Press by...
The Crimean story of the Vienna-based architecture firm Coop Himmelb(l)au began in January 2019 when the Russian occupation authorities of the Crimean city of Sevastopol bragged to Russian media that the “famous Austrian...
As it was informed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of an expanded extremism bill aimed at further quelling opposition activists and politicians...
Vitaly Serdyuk, the lawyer of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said that Yanukovych is preparing to return to Ukraine. It is interesting that Yanukovych sets his lawyers to political tasks rather than legal ones: to bring...
The President of Ukraine’s new representative in Crimea, Anton Korynevych, speaks about the need to find an international format for negotiations on the future of the annexed peninsula. Korynevych reminds Ukrainians that there are...
Repeating lies year after year doesn’t make them suddenly true. The Collins Dictionary suggests the following synonyms for “wooden, in the sense of awkward”: awkward, stiff, rigid, clumsy, lifeless, stilted, ungainly,...
Many commentators are suggesting that Vladimir Putin may seek “a new Crimea” to salvage his ratings with the Russian people, but Vitaly Portnikov says that he “doesn’t think that anyone in the Kremlin was...
One of Vladimir Putin’s greatest advantages has been the willingness of others to accept his definition of what is occurring rather than describe things honestly be it the invasions of Georgia and Ukraine, the Anschluss of Crimea,...
The Ukrainian state’s strategy concerning the more than 2 million citizens who remain in Crimea is this: Ukraine considerers all of them its own citizens, despite that fact that the lion’s share of these people was forced,...
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...
