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...
In another jab at Kiev’s leadership, Ukrainian oligarch Kolomoisky announced that the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republic have proved themselves viable and that their leadership can win an election...
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
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...
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)...
from Sputniknews.com As Washington continues to sound its war drums despite the second Minsk ceasefire, it’s worth asking why NATO continued to remain such a bellicose organization after the...
by ANDREW LEVINE in COUNTERPUNCH Suddenly last summer, Vladimir Putin, formerly once a decent enough Russian leader (with a few unsettling quirks), turned into a malevolent, almost demonic, force....
An Odessa prosecutor reportedly took his life in a 9-storey fall today. This is just the latest in a wave of strange suicides of former and current Ukrainian public...
by Tara McCormack at SPIKED-ONLNE.com The current mainstream argument in the West about Ukraine is seriously misguided and dishonest. According to Western media and politicians, Russia has become an...
by BlackCatte The Guardian’s slide from liberal, informed media outlet, to crass, Ministry of Truth propaganda-sheet, gathers pace every day. Yesterday, for example, came this offering: Vladimir Putin describes...
By Danielle Ryan All sides must be challenged relentlessly — with evidence, incontrovertible fact and perhaps most importantly, a decent, honest attempt to understand other human perspectives. What is...
The Mail Online, 21 December 2014 “…It seemed fairly clear to me… that war had in fact been a miserable affair of fear, hunger, threadbare darned clothes, broken windows...
America revives the Cold War on the cheap By Boris Kagarlitsky I had not been in America for several years. Not for some political reasons: I just had too...
By Dace Mikey We can get into trouble telling stories. Few things evoke more high-handed, Puritanical moralizing than someone else doing something untoward that each of us has done...
This profile of the females in the infamous Aidar Battalion appeared on the Graun front page today,
though it didn't stay there long, being swiftly removed and hidden away in...
Hot on the heels of Kiev’s tanks came… Joe Biden’s shale mining equipment: “These vehicles were brought here in June, at the time the tanks arrived in Metalist and...
What Glenn Greenwald has to say on his latest piece in The Intercept came as a great surprise to me. An excerpt: Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that...
A terrible truth begins to come out. An armoured vehicle with a loudspeaker drove along the streets and warned: “For helping the separatists, of hiding separatists — execution.”
Bloggers expect destabilization, possible government exit A currency panic engulfs the Ukraine while the population sweeps shop shelves clean of all basic necessities. As blogger El-Murid puts it, Kiev’s...