Archives: July 2016

In the past 24 hours, 6 Ukrainian soldiers died in battle, 13 were wounded and 8 other servicemen in the Armed Forces suffered concussions, said a presidential spokesman.

Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the self-declared “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) announced that elections, which he had scheduled for tomorrow, July 24, would be postponed to November 6, 2016,

Leonid Volkov, opposition activist in Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation is accusing the Moscow Mayor’s office of now blocking an opposition rally originally approved.

The Belarusian journalist was killed when his car was blown up on Wednesday morning in Kiev.

Reports that people in the Donbass are protesting pro-Moscow forces there, that desertions among those forces are increasing, and that their members are even shooting at one another provide fresh support for the proposition that the pro-Moscow forces there are a new version of “the atamanshchina.”

Five Ukrainian servicemen have been wounded while one civilian was reportedly injured by Ukrainian fire.

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ON MY MIND Thanks to Russia, the International Olympic Committee is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. If the Russian team is banned from the Summer Games in Rio, it would be an unprecedented move and the 2016 Olympics will forever have an asterisk attached to them due to the absence of […]

Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee initiated the cases against seven investigators on charges of bribe-taking.

The phenomenon of “disappearances” as the result of the actions of government or its allies, long a characteristic of life in the North Caucasus, is now spreading throughout the Russian Federation.