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Ukraine Liveblog Day 192: Novoazovsk Occupied As Yatsenyuk Calls For Emergency UNSC Meeting

August 28, 2014

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Ukrainian War Allowed Russian Journalists to Ignore Their Complicity With Putin Regime

August 26, 2014

Staunton, August 24 – Before Ukraine, many Russian TV journalists were ashamed of their willingness to conform to Kremlin guidelines but justified it by their mortgages and family responsibilities, Pavel Sheremet says. But the Ukrainian war has allowed them to see themselves not as “petty propagandists and cowards” but instead as “defenders of the Russian […]

Russia Has Entered New Kind of ‘Time of Troubles,’ Kazan Scholar Says

Staunton, August 24 – Russia has entered a new “smuta” or “Time of Troubles,” one in which there is no basis for confidence or any clear path forward and which unlike previous earlier analogues “threatens completely unpredictable consequences” for the country and its peoples, according to a Kazan academic. In the current issue of Zvezda Povolzhya, […]

Ukrainian LiveBlog Day 189: Is There a Russian Invasion?

August 25, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 187: Convoy Begins To Return To Russia

August 23, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 186: Russian Aid Convoy Enters Ukraine

August 22, 2014

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A $50 Billion Ghost Town – Sochi Six Months After Putin Games

August 21, 2014

Staunton, August 21 – Photographer Aleksandr Belensky has documented what many observers feared: despite spending more than 50 billion US dollars on the Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin has left Sochi not the vital place he promised but a ghost town where there are almost no tourists and where much of the infrastructure is already decaying. […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 185: Russian Airborne Forces Reportedly Captured In Ukraine

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 184: Fighting Continues in Ilovaisk and Lugansk

August 20, 2014

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