Video: At the frontline in Latakia, Syria
Still from the video below […] “Terrorists have many American weapons, rockets and even night vision devices. Americans teach them. USA bombed our gas plants in the East. We...
Analyst: Ukraine’s economy is dead
A beggar woman against the background of Saint Sophia’s Cathedral fresco paintings. Kiev, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. Photo Mstyslav Chernov. Political analyst Aleksei Blyuminov is interviewed by Lug-Info: […] Lug-Info –...
Video: Azov mob storms Kharkiv city council
Men in camouflage uniforms stormed the city council in Kharkiv. RT reports: At least 200 people wearing camouflage and masks stormed the local administration building in the city of...
Independent journalist: A chaotic war of all against all is the main danger in Ukraine
A scuffle in the Ukrainian Parliament. Photo Vladimir Strumkovsky / AP Sergey Sakadynsky (pictured below), a social activist and independent journalist from Lugansk who now lives in Kiev, is...
Crimea blockade under barrage of criticism
Sputnik International reports: The Right Sector/’Tatar activist’-organized food blockade of Crimea is off to a rocky start, with a split appearing to emerge over the initiative among both domestic...
UN: Evidence on mass murder in Odessa mostly destroyed
In front of the Trade Union House in Odessa the day after the massacre. Christoph Heinz, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions briefed journalists in...
Corruption infighting in Ukraine
Oleg Lyashko Fort Russ reports, via pronedra.ru: Oleg Lyashko, the leader of the “Radical Party”, speaking in the Verkhovna Rada, accused Poroshenko of bribing MPs in his party. Pronedra...
Four in Five Syrians Say Islamic State Is a US Creature, Poll Says
Would be an alternative and rather more relevant headline versus “One in five Syrians say Islamic State is a good thing, poll says,” [a Washington Post report], which is...
Court orders cause of death of Odessa massacre’s victims to be made public
In front of Odessa’s Trade Union Building the day after the May 2 massacre. TASS reports: The Administrative Court of Appeal of the Odessa Region in southern Ukraine has...
Ukraine: Assassination attempt on Interior Minister by volunteer battalion commander foiled
Andriy Yangolenko, seen here with his wife, was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine on Friday in Kharkiv. Euromaidan Press reports: Security Service of Ukraine has told in...
Mosaic of facts
from RT Can you tell truth from lies in mass media? RTD’s Miguel Francis-Santiago delves deep to try to understand the intricacies of information war. He meets media experts...
CENTCOM Analysts: ISIS intelligence manipulated
The Daily Beast reports: More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch...
German media: “The days of Yatsenyuk are gone”
Sputnik International reports: Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk may soon lose his office, after his reputation was severely damaged by corruption reports, dragging on parliamentary reforms and working in...
Opinion: “I’m confused”
Who remembers the children of Donbass? British journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger Neil Clark writes: […] The first thing I’m confused about is the refugee crisis currently affecting Europe....
Ukraine: ATO army on threshold of PTSD epidemic
Photo Anastasia Vlasova Politnavigator reports: The Defense Ministry underestimates the number of soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), says the Kiev magazine “New time”. The publication reports that...
US analysis: “The Western media narrative about Ukraine is coming unglued”
by Systematic Photo Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters Patrick L. Smith writes in Salon: […] there is an aspect of this new phase in the Ukraine crisis that needs to...
DPR: Kiev’s decentralization reform a farce
by Systematic A pro federalization rally in Kharkov, April 2014. Photo dozor.kharkov.ua TASS reports: The constitutional reform being conducted in Ukraine is not in the slightest in line with...
RT: Ukraine to default if parliament rejects debt restructure proposal – finance minister
by Systematic Natalya Yaresko. Photo Michail Polinchak/RIA Novosti) RT reports: The Ukrainian government will declare a default if its parliament, the Verkhovnaya Rada, rejects creditors’ proposals on restructuring the...
How Kolomoyskyi siphoned off 1.8 billion of IMF’s rescue money for Ukraine
from Global Research A huge chunk of the $17 billion in bailout money the IMF granted to Ukraine in April 2014 has been discovered in a bank account in Cyprus controlled by exiled Ukrainian oligarch Ihor...