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Putin to be allowed to hand out Russian passports to Ukrainians and other "compatriots" from zone of "armed conflicts"

15:25 12/18

Monday results in the occupied territories of Donbass. The highlights

11:00 12/18

Russia's recognition of "DNR/LNR" is a demonstration of nervous breakdown and weakness. Lavrov promises to bring Ukraine into a state of comfort

11:41 12/17

Girkin captured Sloviansk in 2014, having guarantees of the invasion of Ukraine by the regular army of the Russian Federation – Khodakovsky

15:21 12/14

Thursday results in the occupied territories of Donbass. The highlights

11:00 12/14

In the space of four years… Luhansk journal

12/13/2018 14:55 15

Of course, now you no longer buy vodka from the trunk or medicine from the hands. It is just about the life has returned to the pre-war scheme – they sell pills in pharmacies and underpants at the market. The roles are set...

Transformations of reality. How and why martial law was imposed in Ukraine

11/29/2018 12:13 50

The emergency mode is likely to quietly come to its end along with the alarming 2018. What, however, will remain is the newly acquired habit of the Ukrainian society to the threat of radical restriction of its rights and freedoms when the "Motherland is in danger"...

Whom the occupied Donbass hears and sees. Reception dishes against TV towers

11/23/2018 11:07 64

Can we talk about the information blockade? I think no. At least in Donetsk, Horlivka and Makiivka. Well, first of all, because the majority of the population of these cities are miners and metallurgists, who, as we know, always had good salaries and pensions. Consequently, most of them have already set reception dishes on the balconies and roofs of their houses about ten years ago. Young and middle-aged people have long got the necessary information from the World Wide Web...

About the election in Luhansk. How it was

11/15/2018 12:56 70

At the exit, those who had voted were given a voucher to replenish the Lugacom operator's account for $1.5 and calendar for the next year. Children and everyone interested received balloons with the symbols of election and colors of the "republican" flag...

Russia does not mind freezing part of the Luhansk region, "knocking out" Ukrainian light for the "LNR"

11/09/2018 13:49 107

The Russian party insists on the supply of electricity to the territory of Luhansk oblast which is beyond the control of Ukraine. There is not enough electricity, which is now in the occupied territory of the oblast. They need an additional source...

Cooperation of castaways, or How Crimea, CDDLO and South Ossetia can help each other

11/06/2018 22:54 71

But is coal needed on the peninsula? There are several wind and solar power stations, as well as Crimean CHPP in Simferopol, Sakskaya CHPP and Kamysh-Burunskaya CHPP. They run on natural gas. Besides, they are low-powered: all of the listed assets provide 21% of the peninsula's electricity needs...

Will the State Duma of the Russian Federation recognize the Donbass "republics"? And what will it change for the region's residents?

11/02/2018 12:53 98

And now imagine, the Ukrainian troops are attacking, and after that, Moscow recognizes the "DNR-LNR" and Russian troops get involved. That is, there is a state of full-fledged war arises! And all this is on the territory of Donbass!...

Holiday on oligarchs' street, or Feast in time of war

10/25/2018 17:20 102

Ordinary Ukrainians continue to pay military fees from their meager income, introduced in 2014 by Arseniy Yatsenyuk as a TEMPORARY measure to finance ATO, which they officially managed to rename JFO...

"Family’s representatives are expected to be appointed to all important "DNR" positions after Pushilin's accession... Review of separatist publications

10/16/2018 16:25 114

The system of "Tashkent" was created under Zakharchenko's rule, let's be honest about that. The system was authoritarian, so to speak, with some income from businessmen...

Why does not runaway Kurchenko "drown"?

10/11/2018 16:30 151

Let us try to figure out who takes care of the runaway "young-oligarch" and his senior partners in Russia. Obviously, this is Igor Sechin, head of the Rosneft state-owned company...

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