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Russian Occupation Threatens Crimea’s Fragile Environment, Ecologist Says
Staunton, May 22 – Occupation authorities rarely take good care of the environment of the territory they have seized, and the Russian Anschluss of Crimea is no exception, with the Russian ecological legislation and practice significantly less good than their Ukrainian counterparts, according to Volodimir Boreyko, head of the Kyiv Ecological-Cultural Center. Boreyko’s views on […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 94: Russian-Backed Separatists Launch Attacks Near Donetsk
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Putin Seeks to Destabilize Former Soviet Space Not Occupy It and to Repress Russia Not Modernize It
Staunton, May 21 – If Vladimir Putin had wanted to occupy part or all of Ukraine, he would have installed a different group of leaders in Donetsk and Luhansk, Yegeniya Albats says, a comment that provides an important clue to the Kremlin leader’s more general strategy with regard not only to Ukraine but to the […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 93: Akhmetov Tells Donbass to ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’
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Putin’s ‘Controlled Chaos’ Policy in Southeast Ukraine Could Backfire on Russia, Pastukhov Says
Staunton, May 19 – Vladimir Putin’s plan to “organize administered chaos” in southeastern Ukraine is proving to be far harder than his promotion of separatism in “religiously and ethnically united enclaves like Abkhazia or South Osetia and consequently he appears likely to be deeply disappointed, according to Vladimir Pastukhov. That is to say, the St. […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 92: Gunmen Storm Election Offices Across East Ukraine
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Moscow Devotes Little Scholarly Attention to Ukraine Because Little Official Demand For It
Staunton, May 19 – Russian diplomats in Kyiv don’t speak Ukrainian and have not studied Ukrainian history or culture, a reflection of a general conviction among officials that they have no need to do so, according to Viktor Mironenko, the head of the Center for Ukrainian Research at the Moscow Institute of Europe. And those […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 91: Putin Orders Russian Forces to Withdraw from Ukrainian Border, Again
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Thousands of Crimean Tatars Mark 70th Anniversary of Deportation
Staunton, May 18 – Despite a ban on any demonstrations by the Russian occupation authorities and a decision by the Milli Mejlis not to hold a mass commemoration lest it become the occasion for a Russian provocation, thousands of Crimean Tatars have assembled in their homeland today to mark the 70th anniversary of their deportation […]