Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician and journalist, has suddenly fallen severely ill in Moscow. He is now in the intensive care unit at the Priogorov 1st City Hospital.
Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reports that the Russian Ministry of Defence has called on Ukraine to release the two soldiers captured near Schastye yesterday, despite denying that they are active members of the Russian armed forces.
This morning, May 18, there was a brief anti-war demonstration for 20 minutes in front of the checkpoint of the former Togliatti Military Academy, now the 3rd Brigade of the GRU [Russian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate], BBC Russian Service reports.
Victoria Nuland, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, is in Moscow to meet with high-ranking members of the Russian government, a trip which follows on the heels of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The Ukrainian military has given a press conference in Kiev on the Russian soldiers captured yesterday near Schastye.
Two men, who the Ukrainian government claims are Russian soldiers, captured yesterday by the Aidar battalion near Schastye in the Lugansk region, are being transferred to Kiev today.
UNIAN reports that the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGS) has announced that fighting is under way between SBGS personnel and Russian-backed fighters near Troitskoye, north-east of Debaltsevo.
Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration on the military operation in the Donbass, has announced today that two soldiers have been killed and four wounded over the last 24 hours.
Today marks the 71st anniversary of Stalin’s mass deportation of the Crimean Tatar people from their homeland on the Crimean peninsula to closed settlements in Central Asia. More than 200,000 people were rousted from their homes at night to be packed into cattle cars for the trip, in which some 100,000 died of suffocation, exposure […]
As we reported earlier, President Vladimir Putin has revived a system used in the Soviet era known as the druzhinniki or volunteer auxiliary police. And not surprisingly, given their resurgence, the Kremlin has turned to the Cossacks to fill the ranks of the druzhinniki.
