The words of Russian President Vladimir Putin from a closed meeting with representatives of Russian business about a conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko about Donbass, outlined by Forbes, are misinterpreted and distorted. On Monday, Forbes magazine published an article that, in the course of his communication with the bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Putin ...
“Over the past year, the Russian president has become famous for his sensational confessions,” writes Samuel Charap, director of Russian and Eurasian programs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in a column for the Financial Times. An excellent example of this is Putin’s words in a documentary about the annexation of Crimea.…
“No one expects Ukraine to get better before it gets worse, or for the next set of commitments under last month's peace deal to be honored,” writes New York Times correspondent Stephen Erlanger. “Instead, Western diplomats and...
If the second Minsk agreements fail and the United States increases military assistance to Ukraine, then the hybrid war will end and a full-scale Russian invasion will begin. You've probably heard the story about the frog: if you throw it into boiling water, the frog realizes the danger and jumps out of the pot. If…
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung put forward a new version of the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov: the motive for the crime could have been his cooperation with the American authorities. Thus, according to the publication’s information received from sources in the special services, “after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, Nemtsov allegedly...
Against the background of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, talk of a "new cold war" has become fashionable. Even experts who have studied the Soviet Union and Russia from the distant times of mutually guaranteed destruction and detente to the collapse of communism say that the normalization of relations between Russia ...
What can bring Donbass a special status, what encourages Russians to seek political asylum in Ukraine and the reaction to the Russian film about the “return” of Crimea - in a review of the Ukrainian press on March 17. Special status Experts told the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine” about...
Popular Ukrainian writer and poet Serhiy Zhadan spoke in New York at a conference on Kharkov organized by Columbia University. He also talked with readers, more than 500 people came to the presentation of his new book at the Ukrainian Museum. In an interview with Forum, 40-year-old Zhadan told ...
Ukraine has turned to the UN with an official request for the introduction of a peacekeeping contingent in Donbass. This was stated by the director of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen Perebyynis. According to the report, Perebiynis noted that the composition and scope of the proposed mission will be agreed during consultations ...
The documentary, which talks about the annexation of Crimea, is evidence of the Kremlin’s “deceitful approach” in the events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. This was stated by US State Department press secretary Jen Psaki. “What we have seen is evidence of the deceitful approach that we have already seen when Russia...