What would happen if Ukraine implements the controversial Steinmeier formula for Donbas?
On 3 August, the press center of the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Crisis Media Center hosted the presentation of the…
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Moscow’s reasons behind the resumed fighting in Donbas
Following the latest round of consultations of political advisors within the so-called Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany),…
15% of Ukraine’s GDP: the economic cost of Russia’s hybrid war
Julia Bluszcz from Humboldt University and Marica Valente from the Berlin School of Economics study the impact of…
Russian-occupied Crimea: Lessons of hypocrisy
As it was informed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has…
Three conditions for the deoccupation of Crimea and Donbas – Vitaly Portnikov
The Crimean Plaform. Propaganda and realism At a press conference after joint talks on June 2, Ukrainian Foreign…
Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic collapse?
Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others…
The rise and decline of Donbas: How communists tried to make this Ukrainian mining region “the heart of USSR” and how it fell into Russian occupation in 2014
Despite the dominance of the Russian language and the Soviet image of Donbas as predominantly Russian, 56% of people in this Ukrainian easternmost region identified themselves as Ukrainians.
A warning sign in the Donbas: Moscow replacing local people with Russians
One of the most reliable signs that an aggressor is about to launch a new attack is his…
Moscow’s integration of Donbas from below–via Russian regions–accelerates
Earlier this month, the governor of Orel Oblast, a Russian region adjoining Ukraine, called for a commission to…
‘Russia has begun the integration of the Donbas’ – at the regional level
In the best Putinite tradition, Russia has begun to take steps to integrate and absorb the Donbas into…
From Donbas to Syria: investigation reveals Ukrainians fighting in Russian PMC Wagner
Read more on PMC Wagner: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas Ukraine names…
Donbas residents increasingly want to return to being part of Ukraine, Bekeshkina says
Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, says that those who initially supported the Russian…
Slovyansk and Kharkiv key to understanding war in Ukraine
Hello and welcome to Head-to-Head. It’s Vivica Williams and today we're talking with Paul Niland, a political commentator…
When Russian liberalism doesn’t stop at border with Ukraine or at ring road around Moscow
It is often said and with some justification that “Russian liberalism ends at the borders with Ukraine” –…
Hybrid warfare: stages of Russian occupation in frozen conflicts in a nutshell
The frozen conflicts Russia controls in the territory of the neighboring states are: Transnistrian conflict in Moldova (also…
Putin is ‘a criminal but not Stalin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Day in History, 2014: UN rejects Russia’s violent attempt to reshape borders
The Assembly underscored that the so-called “referendum” held by the Kremlin-installed authorities in Crimea on March 16 had…
Moscow to start distributing Russian passports in the occupied Donbas
Even as Vladimir Putin decreed that Moscow recognizes documents issued by its clients the "Donetsk Peoples Republic" and…
A Trump-Putin deal on Crimea could trigger a much bigger war, Israeli analyst says
Avraam Shmulyevich, a leading Israeli specialist on ethnic issues in the former Soviet space, says that Kyiv might…
Three more danger signs regarding Putin’s intentions in Ukraine
Whether Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the near future or simply continue to…