Tag: Crimea

Day 760: Putin Visits Occupied Crimea On Anniversary Of Annexation

March 18, 2016

LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine   Radio Polsha Publishes Full ‘Savchenko List’ 2016-03-18 16:29:45 Radio Polsha has obtained a copy of the so-called ‘Savchenko List’ containing the names of Russian […]

Human Rights Situation in Crimea: A Brief Analysis of the EP Vote

February 11, 2016

On February 3, 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on the human rights situation in Crimea, in particular of the Crimean Tatars.” The resolution reminds that “the Russian Federation has illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol and therefore violated international law, including the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the […]

Ukraine Live Day 659: Biden Urges Ukraine To Enact Reforms

December 8, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 655: Ukrainian Positions Attacked 14 Times Over 24 Hours

December 4, 2015

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Ukraine Live Day 644: Power Still Cut In Crimea As Ukrainian Official Claims Russian Tanks Moved Towards Frontier

November 23, 2015

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A New Danger Signal: Russian Occupiers Say Crimean Tatars ‘Heavily Armed’

October 6, 2015

Staunton, October 6 – In what may presage an even more savage crackdown on the Crimean Tatars and their Mejlis, Russian occupation authorities on the Ukrainian peninsula are claiming that members of that nation are heavily armed and a threat to law and order, according to Russian journalist Ruslan Gorevoy. Moreover, his sources suggest the […]

Stalin’s Deportation of Crimean Tatars ‘Justified’ and ‘Humane,’ Russian Commentator Says

September 24, 2015

Staunton, September 24 The great Russian memoirist Nadezhda Mandelshtam once observed that “happy is that country in which the despicable will at least be despised.” On that measure, Putin’s Russia is an increasingly unhappy place where ever more despicable things past and present are being justified or even presented as positive goods. In a commentary […]