A non-binding referendum in the Netherlands has rejected the ratification of the EU Association Agreement with Ukraine, following a campaign backed by Eurosceptic parties across the wider EU.
Tag: Viktor Yanukovych
Day 710: EU Court Lifts Asset Freezes On Yanukovych’s Prime Ministers Azarov And Arbuzov
The General Court of the European Union has annulled the freezing of assets belonging to five Ukrainians, including former prime ministers Mykola Azarov and Sergei Arbuzov. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. […]
How Alexander Dugin’s Neo-Eurasianists Geared Up for the Russian-Ukrainian War in 2005-2013
The Neo-Eurasianist perspective on Ukraine was formed already in the 1990s, when Russian fascist Alexander Dugin argued, in his Foundations of Geopolitics, that Ukraine was “an unnatural state” consisting of four major regions with allegedly different geopolitical loyalties, and that a sovereign and united Ukraine constituted a major threat to the geopolitical security of Russia […]
Ukraine Live Day 609: Berkut Officer Who Led Attack On Maidan Protest Still A Commander In Interior Ministry
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs 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. For links to individual […]
Ukraine Live Day 564: Blasts In Two Ukrainian Cities While Front Remains Relatively Calm
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs 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. For links to individual […]
Ukraine Day 491: Yanukovych Denies He Gave Order to Shoot Maidan Demonstrators – BBC
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs 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 […]
The Uneasy Reality of Antifascism in Ukraine
First published in German language in Beton International: Zeitung für Literatur und Gesellschaft (10 March 2015). For almost twenty years of Ukraine’s independence, the term “antifascism” used to have very limited currency in the established political discourse in Ukraine. Until 2010, “antifascism” was primarily used as a form of self-identification by an element of Ukraine’s […]
Hungary Helping Moscow Destabilize Ukraine From the West
Staunton, March 5 – Budapest has announced that it has handed out Hungarian citizenship papers to 94,000 people in Trans-Carpathia in Western Ukraine in expedited fashion. The Hungarian official responsible for nationality policy says that this is part of a broader effort to boost the size of the country’s population and points out that two-thirds […]
Putin’s ‘Greatest Task’ Is To Become a New Stalin
Staunton, March 5 – On the 62 anniversary of his death today, Stalin continues to cast an ever darker shadow over Russia, sparking debates about how he should best be remembered. But beyond these symbols, the influence of Stalin on the thinking of Vladimir Putin and his regime is increasingly obvious and strong, as Moscow […]
Ukraine Live Day 369: Kiev Braces For Full-Scale Separatist Attack On Mariupol
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs 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. For links to individual […]