Putin loses ability to protect criminals
Obviously, hiding out in Russia is good. But is this why they stole? The Russian elite will need…
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Why Putin fears the Ukrainian Catholic Church
Vladimir Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov said that the situation in Ukraine would be one of the central themes…
Ukraine must prepare for Russian invasion
President Poroshenko has spoken about the extraordinarily high risk of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Given the…
Who is responsible for the Donbas “prisoners”?
President Poroshenko has actually admitted his willingness to distance himself from the occupied territories if the Minsk agreements…
Russia “investigating” Malaysian airliner crash
Putin and his entourage are deathly afraid of the ongoing investigation into the destruction of the Malaysian Boeing…
Putin’s “hybrid secret”
The decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to classify all information about military personnel who die in peacetime…
Russia’s monument to tsar Vladimir
Vladimir Putin wants the Russian people to think of him as the new Vladimir on the throne, the…
Ukraine cancels risky agreements with Russia
Ukraine has begun the process of discarding agreements with Russia that have allowed the Kremlin to keep official Kyiv…
“Republics” — Kremlin’s Trojan horse in Ukraine
Based on the statements made by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a breakfast meeting at the editorial…
Why is Putin meeting with Kerry?
When it comes to the meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry with Russian President Vladimir Putin…
The media must serve the military — Shoigu
Russia's Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu has called mass media "but another arm of the armed forces." There…
Law and War
The discussions we observed during the debate (in Verkhovna Rada) on parliamentary amendments to the law on the…
Minsk and the West’s “useful idiots”
In reading articles on the Minsk agreements in world media, it is difficult to avoid amazement at the…
War and the Putin negotiations
by Vitaliy Portnikov The unprecedented trip of Merkel and Hollande to Kyiv and Moscow No matter how the…
Why Putin needs enemies of the people
If Russians "swallow" the Davidova case, then soon anyone and everyone can be arrested and imprisoned in Russia.…
The special logic of Putin and his hordes in the Donbas
Many Ukrainians believe that sooner or later the people in Moscow will reconsider. That they will understand what…
Time is on Ukraine’s side in Donbas — Portnikov
The Kremlin has not yet fully realized the danger it faces. The Bednov ("Batman") killing is just a…
Why the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan are coming to Kyiv
The fact that the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan, Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Nursultan Nazarbayev, have decided to visit…
Crisis in the Caucasus — Putin, Kadyrov and Ukraine
The hysterical reaction of Ramzan Kadyrov to the events that took place in Grozny on the eve of…
The real kamikaze government of Ukraine
After Maidan, the new Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatseniuk, called his cabinet the "kamikaze government." But in…