Portnikov: Kremlin wants Ukraine’s capitulation, Putin expects a “concrete result”
Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy…
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Portnikov: Putin won’t pity us
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior – the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the…
Portnikov: It’s not about ‘negotiation formats,’ it’s about Russia
The President of Ukraine’s new representative in Crimea, Anton Korynevych, speaks about the need to find an international…
Kyiv working via courts to ‘return Russia to framework of international law’
The Ukrainian government has been working quietly but consistently through international courts to “return Russia to the framework…
Russian aggression in the Azov Sea has been ongoing since May 2018
The situation in the Azov Sea started aggravating in May 2018, when Russian border guards began detaining merchant…
Moscow now shifting Navy vessels from Pacific and Arctic to Kerch Straits
In a move that gives substance to Ukrainian fears that Moscow will close the Sea of Azov to…
Moscow’s blockade of Sea of Azov intended to force Kyiv to lift its own on Crimea, Samus says
By blocking water transit on the Sea of Azov and in the Kerch Straits, Moscow is pursuing two…
Hacked military docs reveal how the Russian 18th motorized brigade invaded Crimea
The Russian occupation of Crimea started back in 2014, four years ago, following the three-month long Euromaidan protests…
Hague court rules Russia must compensate Ukrainian investors $159 mn for Crimea losses
“On 2 May 2018, having deliberated, the Tribunal issued its unanimous Award on the Merits, addressing issues pertaining…
Poll: What country is under danger from Russia the most?
Russia attacked Moldova in 1992 turning its Transnistria region into a puppet “state”. In the same year, Russia…
Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea saved Ukraine from going back to its old ways, Kazarin says
Many commentators have pointed out that Stalin was the greatest state builder in Ukrainian history because he added…
Ukraine publishes video proving Kremlin directed separatism in eastern Ukraine and Crimea
On 22 August 2016, Ukraine’s General Prosecutors Office (GPO) released a video it says proves that top officials of…
Ukrainian politicians denounce Trump’s readiness to legitimize Putin’s Crimean anschluss
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have denounced the declaration by Donald…
Russian aggression in Ukraine reflects major demographic considerations
The continuing de-Russification of Russia, caused by the influx of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus and…
Fifth myth of Krymnashism – Ukrainian statehood is ‘artificial’ – demolished by Popov
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial…
Fourth Putin myth about Crimean Anschluss without foundation, Popov says
Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime…
Popov demolishes third ‘KrymNash’ myth – that Crimean people freely expressed their will
Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part…
Rights advocate forced to use ‘Russian-English samizdat’ to speak truths unwelcome in Russia and the West
Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that…
Crimea braces for another Russian invasion – ‘commissars from Moscow’
Moscow has disbanded two of the agencies it created to integrate occupied Crimea – the Ministry for Crimean…
Crimean residents find quiet ways to protest Russian occupation and display ties to Ukraine
Despite the repressive measures of the Russian occupiers, Crimeans of all ethnic groups have found various ways to…
