Minister: Ukraine pension fund bankrupt

Ukraine’s Censor.net reports: The Pension Fund is bankrupt, lacking 80 billion hryvnia for pensions – Social Policy Minister Rozenko     … The Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine,...

Odessa fire investigation update

RT in Russian reports: Alexander Balinskii, member of the expert public commission to investigate the tragedy of May 2, said that he knew the main reason why there were...

Ukraine’s Chief Anti-Corruption Offical Fired after Uncovering Millions Stolen – Russia Insider

… “Corruption schemes in Ukraine are headed by the government of Yatsenyuk,” – said Gordienko, the chairman of State Financial Inspection In particular, he noted that corruption schemes were...

Yarosh offered post at Ukrainian MoD

Right Sector’s leader Yarosh was offered a post by Poroshenko as adviser to Ukraine’s MoD Chief of Staff. … This was stated by Anton Heraschenko, Advisor to Interior Minister, on...

Kolomoyski tweets, more news

Kolomoyski tweets:  Now I’m just an unemployed Ukrainian. —————— Right Sector will not obey the decision of the authorities to dissolve the volunteer battalions, if one such decision is...

Kolomoysky’s next steps: “Servant of the People, Father to the Soldiers” – Fort Russ

Poroshenko today at the delivery of ten Humvees shipped from the US to the Ukrainian army. “To paraphrase LBJ, is Poroshenko better off with Kolomoisky in the tent pissing...

Ukraine latest: arrests, large-scale security operation launched

The head of Ukraine’s Emergency Situations civil service, Sergei Bochkovsky, was detained today for corruption by the SBU [police] during a cabinet meeting, along with his deputy Vasily Stoetsky. http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2015/03/25/n_7047141.shtml...

Enter the Dnipropetrovsk Republic of Kolomoiskiy?

Dan Peleschuk, correspondent for Global Post, tweets You know it’s bad when a #Ukraine separatist leader recommends a name for a #Kolomoisky separatist state The story, from Russia Today...

A chink in the armor of US omnipotence?

Regarding the “Poroshenko vs. Kolomoiskiy” conflict shaking Ukraine to its core right now, Gleb Bazov, a prominent observer and commenter of the Ukraine crisis, voices his doubts on the...

Poroshenko may lose both the political and the armed war

The President of Ukraine Poroshenko may lose the war for his own power and not manage to succeed in the protracted armed conflict in the Donbass. This is the...

Avakov issues ultimatum to Kolomoisky

Ukraine’s Vesti newspaper reports: Interior Minister Arsen Avakov gave armed fighters inside “Ukrnafta” one day for disarmament. (…) Earlier today, the head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaychenko said that...

“A typical day of Poroshenko”

Russia Forward tweets: KOLOMOISKIY MAKES FUN OF POROSHENKO ON TWITTER, IS AN INDICATION WHO IS BOSS http://t.co/ZikiEsLM6a — Коломойский Игорь (@Igor_Kolomoyski) March 22, 2015

The heat is on?

From a Sputnik report on the situation at Ukrnafta’s headquarters in Kiev: Commenting on the recent scuffle between oligarchs over Ukraine’s oil transport company Ukrtransnafta, former Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleg Tsarev warned that...

Breaking: Kolomoysky raids Ukrnafta

Sergei Leshchenko, a pro-West MP from Poroshenko’s party, writes in his Facebook page: Kolomoysky challenged Poroshenko. The entrance to the “Ukrnafta” (in which the state has a controlling stake)...

One year later

Kenneth Rapoza in Forbes Unless we are all to believe that the locals [Crimeans] polled by Gallup and GfK were done so with FSB bogey men standing by with...

A police battalion that “will operate as much as possible within the law”

IGCP, a Ukrainian human rights group, reports: Kharkiv will be patrolled by armed militants of “Right Sector” Armed militants of the radical Ukrainian organization “Right Sector” will patrol the...

War crimes

Konstantin posts in the Truth about situation in Ukraine Facebook group: Kiev junta war crimes: the shelling of the cemetery of the Holy Iver convent (female monastery) and looting...

Kiev “deliberately destroyed the Minsk agreement”

From RT we learn that: On March 17, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), passed a law granting the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk special self-rule status (…) Self-rule...

“Pre-Revolutionary Situation” in the UAF – Fort Russ

An excerpt from an open letter to the President, Prime Minister, and the Rada by the commander of the 20th Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 93rd Separate Motorized Infantry...

“Pacifying the city”

A film examining the arson attack on Odessa’s Trade Unions House at the start of the civil war in Ukraine and the role played by ultranationalism, the police and...