Ukraine

Ukraine Liveblog Day 244: German Intelligence Claims Russian-Backed Militants Downed MH17

October 19, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 243: Shelling Resumes at Donetsk Airport and Suburbs

October 18, 2014

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No Russian State in Occupation of Crimea Can Be Considered Democratic, Portnikov Says

October 17, 2014

Staunton, October 17 – Now that Aleksey Navalny has said that he won’t return Crimea to Ukraine and Mikhail Khodorkovsky has added that “only a [Russian] dictator” could do so, other “representatives of Russian democratic society have hastened” to assure Russians that they won’t either as they live in “a democracy” in which “all issues […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 242: Poroshenko And Putin Talk In Milan

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Does Russian Liberalism Still ‘End at Ukraine’?

October 16, 2014

Staunton, October 16 – Since at least the time of the Russian Civil War, it has been common ground among many observers in Moscow and the West that Russian liberalism “ends at Ukraine,” a notion for which Alexey Navalny’s statement that Russia will retain Crimea whatever happens appears to provide fresh evidence. But Navalny’s own […]

Who Are Ukraine’s “Darth Vaders?” The Masks Are Off

Darth Vader is real, and he ran for president of Ukraine. This spring one of the candidates for President was a masked man, wearing a Darth Vader costume, who was running as a member of the Internet Party. He was disqualified because he refused to use his real name, but his candidacy was controversial for […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 241: Stand-Offs At Donetsk Airport And Bakhmutka Highway Continue

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 240: Ukrainian Forces Attacked And Surrounded In Lugansk Region

October 15, 2014

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Russian Officials from Sochi Olympics Transit Now Working on Kerch Straits

Staunton, October 12 – In a development that some will see as encouraging but most as an indication of more troubles ahead, the officials who handled the development of the transportation network for the Sochi Olympics have now been given the task of improving transit between the Russian Federation and Russian-occupied Crimea via the Kerch […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 239: Violent Protests Outside Rada

October 14, 2014

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