On 20 September, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed “governor” of Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, announced a “referendum” on joining Russia is to be held in the occupied territories of Kherson Oblast. He noted...
The SBU has intercepted documents with the Russian plans, NV reported. According to them, the pro-Kremlin organization “Volunteers for Russia” under the supervision of Russian special services is to fabricate local support for...
In occupied Kherson, the Kremlin plans to hold a pseudo-referendum to declare the region the so-called “Kherson People’s Republic.” Scheduled for April 27, a workday, it is expected to show “a pre-approved...
Ukrainian reports on the Russian intentions to declare the so-called “Kherson people’s republic” circulate from the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On 16 April, The Ukrainian...
On 21 May, newly-appointed Ukrainian Presidential Administration head Andriy Bohdan stirred up controversy with Ukrainian political commentators when he announсed the intentions of Ukraine’s new authorities to conduct a...
In summer 2017, the German Bundestag election campaign was rocked by an unexpected statement from the leader of Germany’s liberals, Christian Lindner. The chair of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) – a centre-right force...
The Russian state-funded TV channel RT broadcasted an interview with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party in which he compared the current situation in Catalonia to that in Crimea. The pro-Russian...
First, the Ukrainian online newspaper Segodnya.ua published a recent Facebook comment by Roman Lyagin in which he calls the DNR “a parody of a state” being “kept afloat by internal terror”:...
Ukrainian and Dutch NGOs called upon the Dutch Senate to vote for the ratification of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, as stated in an appeal by the Reanimation Package of Reforms. The activists welcomed the approval...
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to create an illusion of all-region wide decision to separate from Ukraine. This farce, organized with Russian...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...
