Staunton, June 16 – In what might seem counter-intuitive but which in fact underscores the way Moscow media coverage of one thing may cause Russians to draw conclusions about others, 58 percent of Russians say that as a result of developments in Ukraine, they are more negative about nationalist groups in their own country, up […]
Staunton, June 16 – The Russian authorities have unleashed and are conducting a war in Ukraine, “a new type of war without declaration or a front line” and one that is simultaneously “destroying all official Soviet and post-Soviet myths and clarifying the real nature of the political regime in Russia,” according to Igor Chubais. Chubais, […]
Staunton, June 15 – Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has “frozen the development of the Ukrainian revolution,” but it has not eliminated the need for that revolution to go forward both to achieve its long-term goals and to deal with the temporary nature of the alliance between the Maidan and “the ‘patriotic’ part of the Ukrainian […]
Staunton, June 15 – In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is acting either as a failed state that cannot control the movement of heavy military equipment by independent groups across its borders or as a state sponsor of terrorism by such groups or an aggressor state that has invaded a neighboring sovereign state – or most […]
The majority of this article was written by Pierre Vaux, with significant contributions by James Miller and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. All translations by Pierre Vaux except those marked with *, which are translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. Russia’s military and intelligence sector has been actively involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine for months, as […]
Yesterday’s liveblog 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 links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]
Yesterday’s liveblog 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 links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]
Staunton, June 14 – The lack of local support in Crimea for the Russian occupation and the resistance of the Crimean Tatars to that occupation has prompted an imam from St. Petersburg to go to Crimea where he serves as Moscow’s point man against the Milli Mejlis which has just announced the Crimean Tatars will […]
Staunton, June 14 – If Moscow does not win out in Ukraine, Maksim Kalashnikov argues, the Russian Federation will suffer its very own “’Ukrainian crisis,’” with “’true Russian nationalists’” in places like the overwhelmingly ethnic Russian Bryansk Region adopting separatist agendas and challenging the central government. According to the Russian nationalist commentator, the struggle for […]
Staunton, June 13 – Russia has a sufficiently strong army to “put any country in its place,” Bogdan Bezpalko, the head of the Federation of National Cultural Autonomies of Ukrainians of Russia, says, but “domestic contradictions” between Russians and other groups, including ethnic Ukrainians, “represent a danger.” In a commentary posted online yesterday, Bezpalko says […]
