Ukrainian president says Russia should lose its UN Security Council veto
President Petro Poroshenko said in a Voice of America interview on Friday that Russia should lose its veto…
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Activists in Russia petition international community to investigate Boris Nemtsov assassination
Activists in Russia are circulating a petition on social media in support of an international investigation into the assassination of…
Russian occupiers cut classes and schools in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian
Despite Russian laws specifying that Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian are state languages in Crimea alongside Russian, the Russian…
Ukrainian and Belarusian football fans unite ‘for Your Freedom and Ours’
Few events are more likely to divide people along national or ethnic lines than international football matches, and…
Moscow creating ‘new Comintern’ spy network in Europe, Prague says
“Russia is creating in Europe an ideological structure” that resembles “the Comintern created and directed by the Soviet…
Moscow preparing to destabilize Belarus if Lukashenka refuses to allow a Russian base, Mensk experts say
Alyaksandr Lukashenka has so far refused Moscow’s demand for the establishment of a Russian military base in Belarus,…
Poroshenko has cleverly blocked Putin while satisfying West, Piontkovsky says
With his constitutional amendments on local self-administration, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has blocked Vladimir Putin’s plan to force…
Putin using far right to destabilize Ukraine, Poroshenko says
In the best tradition of the Soviet intelligence services from which he comes, Vladimir Putin is “attempting to…
Russian propaganda different and much more disturbing than its Soviet predecessor
In George Orwell’s classic novel of totalitarianism, “1984,” Big Brother, the ruler of the state, doled out “two…
Donbas mercenaries bringing the war home to Russia with them
Russian mercenaries who fought in the Donbas “militias” are returning home not only with their weapons but with…
Sacrificing Crimea and Donbas to Russia – no solution for Ukraine or the world
Many people, horrified by the actions of pro-Moscow forces in Crimea and the Donbas or unwilling to continue…
Moscow won’t succeed in using Ukrainian radicals to destabilize Kyiv, Portnikov says
Having failed to find the number of backers for the “Russian world” in Ukraine it expected, Moscow in…
Ukrainian MP Hanna Hopko on the controversial decentralization vote
Monday, August 31 was marked with violent clashes in Kyiv over a key decentralization reform vote in the Ukrainian…
The trauma of war
In her late teens, my sister had a pen pal in the United States, a sort of “long…
This is why Ukraine needs decommunization of public spaces
The law condemning Communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes adopted this spring provides for the removal of Soviet symbolism…
Moscow using non-Slavic soldiers in Donbas to prevent Russian-Ukrainian fraternization
The appearance of non-Russian fighters in the Russian “militias” in the Donbas is not a curiosity but rather…
Could Russia’s 50 thousand-strong Donbas veterans organization become a Russian Freikorps?
Aleksandr Boroday, the former prime minister of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk Peoples Republic,” says he is seeking official registration…
Putin prepares to launch major war sooner rather than later, Felshtinsky says
Given his economic problems at home and Western sanctions over Ukraine, many in the West have convinced themselves…
Energy Corruption in Ukraine: Causes and Cures
Energy corruption in Ukraine has been an ongoing problem ever since the country’s independence from the USSR in…
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…
