President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree dismissing the Dnepropetrovsk region governor Igor Kolomoisky, the official site of the Ukrainian Head of State announced. The President granted Kolomoisky’s request...

Or how the term “Jingoism” came to life by Harry J. Bentham, Beliefnet.com Probably no regime has sacrificed more of its soldiers towards distant and irrelevant conflicts than the...

The oligarch’s security men were “protecting” the company, weapons were “pneumatic” The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine registered a draft law offering parliamentarians to cancel the amendments that led...

The U.S. has long been trying to drive a wedge between Russia and Ukraine, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published on Monday by the...

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...

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...

It looks as if Minsk2 is in a lot of trouble, due to what Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov describes as a “glaring breach of the first steps...

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...