Russian Gazprom ready to pounce on Moldovan prey

Russian Gazprom ready to pounce on Moldovan prey

Using Gazprom as its political instrument, the Kremlin threatens to halt natural gas supplies to Moldova temporarily on November 1, and indefinitely from December 1, unless Moldova accepts Russia’s financial and political conditions for continuing gas deliveries (see below). Dmitry Kozak, the deputy head of Russia’s Presidential Administration, directly participates in the gas negotiations with…

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Stalin executed their great-grandfather 83 years ago. Now Russia sentenced these Crimean Tatars on same charges

Stalin executed their great-grandfather 83 years ago. Now Russia sentenced these Crimean Tatars on same charges #FreeSeitumerSeitumerov #FreeOsmanSeitumerov #FreeRustemSeitmemetov #FreeAmetSuleimanov #LetMyPeopleGo

Yesterday, on 29 October, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia sentenced four Crimean Tatars from Bakhchysarai to 56 years in total, reports. The charges brought against the four are affiliation with Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic organization, peaceful in nature yet labelled as “terrorist” in Russia. This continues Russia’s deliberate and massive persecution of Crimean Tatars,…

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Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses

Every day two or three people starved to death in our village | Voices of Holodomor witnesses

, , the Holodomor of 1932–1933—all these Soviet anti-farmer terror policies hit hard Anna Slobodian and her family. Anna Slobodian was born in the Kashchak family of ordinary farmers. She witnessed how her father, a successful farmer, turned into a rightless member of a kolkhoz, the Soviet “collective farm” with its members being de-facto serfs. This transformation occurred in the spring of 1932,…

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How the alliance of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova may change the geopolitics of Europe

How the alliance of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova may change the geopolitics of Europe

Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia have more in common than you think. And it is not only the enemy in the face of Putin. The three states share similar energy security issues and security challenges in the Black Sea region, values and international trade opportunities, and unified perception of the future of our region. In May 2021, these states set up a new format of their collaboration called the…

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Berlin concerned by Ukraine using Bayraktar drone, but not by Russian-separatist side using banned weapons

Berlin concerned by Ukraine using Bayraktar drone, but not by Russian-separatist side using banned weapons

Ukraine’s use of a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone has drawn the ire of Germany’s Foreign Ministry. “Berlin is very concerned about the increase in the intensity of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, as well as the message of the General Staff of the Ukrainian army, according to which the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in response to shelling and the death of one soldier and wounding of another, used a…

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Ukraine reports first strike with Turkish Bayraktar drone

Ukraine reports first strike, destroyed Russian artillery with Turkish Bayraktar drone

Ukraine’s army has for the first time used the Turkish-produced strike drone Bayraktar TB2 against combined Russian-separatist forces in Donbas. A video of the strike was shared by Ukraine’s General Staff: The Staff informed that the Russian-separatist army had shelled Ukrainian positions near Hranitne from D30 howitzers between 14:25 and 15:15 on 26 October, as a result of which two Ukrainian…

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Ex-puppet state leader turned Russian MP admits Russian Army involvement in Ukraine war

Ex-puppet state leader turned Russian MP admits Russian Army involvement in Ukraine war

Military equipment of the Russian hybrid forces parading in occupied Luhansk on 9 May 2016. Photo: Twitter Since 2014, the Kremlin has consistently denied Russia’s leading role or even involvement in the ongoing war in the two easternmost regions of Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, known collectively as the Donbas. The Russian official narrative states that the war in Ukraine has been a mere…

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United against the Empire | Documentary digs into centuries-deep roots of Ukrainian-Lithuanian friendship

The documentary UA-LT For Your and Our Freedom by the director Larysa Artiugina reveals the aspects of the two nations’ friendship. It contains newsreels and interviews with prominent Ukrainians and Lithuanians who observed this friendship from the inside. They include Soviet dissidents, Ukrainian and Lithuanian politicians, diplomats, activists, and journalists. Director Larysa Artiugina. Photo:…

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Dutch court rules "Scythian Gold" must be returned to Ukraine, not occupied Crimea

Dutch court rules “Scythian Gold” must be returned to Ukraine, not occupied Crimea

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When will non-oligarchic political parties flourish in Ukraine?

When will non-oligarchic political parties flourish in Ukraine?

Ukraine’s current political and economic landscape formed under chaotic conditions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Ukraine rapidly transitioned from a planned economy into a free-market. This created a race to the bottom to strip the country’s assets. Individuals close to power quickly established monopolies and formed the basis of the oligarchic power we observe in today’s Ukraine.…

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The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 2)

The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 2)

According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make Under Secretary Victoria Nuland’s visit possible. The United States seeks a mutually accepted modus vivendi with Russia regarding the Donbas problem; and Biden’s team is prepared to exert its influence on Ukraine to cooperate toward that goal. Moscow would therefore expect…

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The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 1)

The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 1)

The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas. On October 13, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland capped a three-day visit in Moscow (see EDM, October 14), conferring with Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration and special presidential envoy on the conflict in Ukraine’s…

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Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says

Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says

Many who hear Vladimir Putin’s most outrageous statements or see his most aggressive actions are inclined to say he is living in a parallel reality; but in fact, Vitaly Portnikov says, the Kremlin leader constantly monitors reality to see just how far he can go. That reality suggests to him that there are few limits and that he can pursue his agenda with impunity. No matter what Putin says or…

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Pro-Kremlin media scaremongering about “threatened sovereignty” this week: disinformation review

Pro-Kremlin media scaremongering about “threatened sovereignty” this week: disinformation review

COVID-19 continues to be a popular topic for the producers of disinformation: This week EU vs Disinfo documented several cases spreading lies about vaccination – A biochemical attack on humanity by globalists. On the other hand, vaccines are useless. Consistency is not important for the producers of disinformation. Russian social media have noticed how state broadcaster RT attempts to encourage…

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“Why am I here? Don’t you see what’s happening in Ukraine?” Seven portraits of Ukrainian fighters on the front lines

“Why am I here? Don’t you see what’s happening in Ukraine?” Seven portraits of Ukrainian fighters on the front lines

Radio Donbas.Realii met with the Ukrainian soldiers to create these stark, but telling black-and-white portraits. An improvised photo studio with windows covered with sandbags. The story of one unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and yet, the daily reality for an entire generation of people, old and young. Most of these soldiers weren’t even 18 years old when Russia occupied Crimea and launched a…

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Something has to be done with oligarchs -- UK Ambassador to Ukraine

Something has to be done with oligarchs, UK Ambassador in Kyiv @MelSimmonsFCDO says

On Partnership for a Strong Ukraine Fund A few months ago, Great Britain, together with other countries, initiated the Partnership for a Strong Ukraine Fund. We heard about it first when Wendy Morton, the Minister for Europe and the Americas at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, announced the project during her visit to Kyiv to join the Crimea Platform. The United Kingdom, Canada,…

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Why these expats chose Ukraine

Why these expats chose Ukraine

What is better in Ukraine than in your home country? Hopefully and hesitantly, I posted my question in the Expats in Kyiv Facebook group. Hopefully, because if foreigners keep coming to Ukraine, then perhaps the Ukrainians who habitually complain that things in their country are getting worse and worse do suffer from a blind spot. And hesitantly, because what if all that expats like about Ukraine…

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