Past 24 hours in the war zone Joint Forces Operation report no gunfire or shelling. Between 31 December and 3 January, OSCE SMM record 399 ceasefire violations, including 25 explosions in Donetsk Oblast; 44 ceasefire violations, including...
According to Ukrainian FM Vadym Prystaiko, two passengers and all nine crew members were Ukrainian nationals, among other passengers were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadian citizens, 10 Swedes, four Afghan citizens, three German, and three British...
The problem of the Russian occupation of Crimea and oppression of its indigenous Crimean Tatar people has been recently raised for the first time in the mediascape of Iran, a Middle Eastern regional power traditionally considered as an...
The Internet can mobilize people around issues and this mobilization often takes the form of presenting declarations to foreign leaders or gathering signatures on petitions that allow those who are sometimes ignored to force themselves...
73 states voted in support of the document entitled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (Ukraine),” 23 voted against, and 76 abstained. 41 states joined the list of...
President Barack Obama has sold out Ukraine in order to get Vladimir Putin’s support for a nuclear deal with Iran, according to Andrey Illarionov. Other commentators, including at least one Ukrainian one, disagree. But almost all...
Vladimir Putin says his decision to sell S-300 air defense missiles to Iran will stabilize the situation in the Middle East, but an analysis by Andrey Piontkovsky strongly suggests that it will have exactly the opposite effect and drive up...
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...