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Ukraine Liveblog Day 222: Fighting Continues Despite Gas Deal With Russia

September 27, 2014

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 221: Russia Threatens To Cut Gas Supplies While Buffer Zone Group Meets

September 26, 2014

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]

Russia This Week: Prosecutor Demands Return of Bashneft Shares to State (September 21-28)

Updated Daily. This week’s issue: – Ruble Falls To Record Low After Prosecutors Confirm Lawsuit to Nationalize Bashneft – What is Yevtushenkov’s Relationship to Support for Russian-Backed Separatists in Ukraine? – Prosecutor Demands Return of Bashneft Shares to State; Yevtushenkov To Remain Under House Arrest – Russians Polled Find Putin ‘Most Moral’ Figure; But Some […]

Black Sea Fleet: A Return to Russia’s Great Power Pretensions

September 25, 2014

As the guns begin to fall silent over Europe’s newest frozen conflict (or at least some of the guns), joining a long and terribly depressing line of conflicts such as Transdniester, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the exact opposite is happening to Russia’s defense policy and military plans in the region. Russia continues to fly provocative […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 220: Poroshenko Says Ukraine Will Apply EU Membership In 2020

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 219: Nadezhda Savchenko Moved From Voronezh To Moscow

September 24, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 218: DNR Claims Artillery Withdrawn While Continuing To Attack Airport

September 23, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 217: Russia Says OSCE To Monitor Buffer Zone As Donetsk Airport Attacked Again

September 22, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 216: Ceasefire Violations Threaten Minsk Peace Plan

September 21, 2014

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Russia This Week: 26,000 Protest War in Ukraine at Moscow Peace March (September 15-21)

Updated Daily. This week’s issue: – Further Peace March Arrests: 7 in St. Petersburg; 2 in Yekaterinburg; 2 in Barnaul – Peace March of 26,000 in Moscow Finishes Without Incident; A Few Arrests Reported – At Least 10,000 in Peace March in Moscow – AP – 5,000 March in St. Petersburg Despite Ban – ‘If […]