Articles — OstroV

Serhiy Harmash: on the checkpoints, "peace plan" and diplomatic niceties of negotiations in the TCG

11/20/2020 15:48 2520

I believe that the purpose of this document is not a real discussion in order to end the conflict, but destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, an attempt to impose new obligations on us without the obligations of the other side, and the subjectivation of CADLO. Their plan is not even close to being a compromise...

Local elections in the Donetsk oblast: the power will be shared between Akhmetov and Medvedchuk

11/09/2020 14:23 2443

As a result, we can say that the power in the Donetsk oblast will be shared between Akhmetov and Medvedchuk. Or, in fact, the same memorable Party of Regions…

What future Russia is preparing for Donbas. The main summer trends

10/30/2020 10:20 2528

Moscow wants to achieve the cost reduction of hybrid war, while maintaining and even strengthening it, in two ways, depending on Kyiv's reactions and the geopolitical situation. This is forcing the implementation of the Minsk agreements in the interpretation of the Kremlin, in the possibility of which Russia believes fewer and fewer, and preservation of the conflict according to the Transnistrian scenario...

Two questions about Donbas. How Zelensky's poll will affect the military conflict in the region

10/23/2020 14:26 2438

Thus, it all comes down to the fact that Ukraine can initiate a format of negotiations parallel to "Minsk" with the participation of Great Britain and the USA, which are already our strategic partners and support our country in the confrontation with the Russian Federation...

"There is a planned program to sack the Donbas". Donetsk journal

10/16/2020 14:49 2632

Even the "military" faced the problem of delaying its money allowance. Of course, not field officers, but those who went to serve under the contract out of despair in order to have a more or less decent wage...

Karabakh dynamite. What is happening between Armenia and Azerbaijan and why are new armed clashes dangerous

10/08/2020 16:59 2557

There are those who, even without being supporters of the regime, told me that they were ready to fight again - not because of hatred of the Armenians, but because of fatigue: what else is left when fruitless negotiations last a quarter of a century?

Pyramid of Pushilin: closed borders, carriers, people engaged in cash out operations, customs duties and certificates

10/02/2020 16:22 2778

Looking at all these "worries" about the "republic's" residents, many Donetsk residents get the impression that the "DNR" policy is aimed at squeezing people out of the occupied region. Low salaries, beggarly social payments, creating unfavorable conditions for doing business, low-quality food products imported from the Russian Federation - all this makes many people think about changing their place of residence...

Crimea: pandemic against tourist season

09/24/2020 17:44 2621

Several anti-records in the number of cases were recorded in August and September, but this did not become a reason for strengthening quarantine measures. Instead, the so-called local "authorities" have begun to repurpose Crimean hospitals as hospitals for patients with coronavirus...

Unique TCG meeting. "Minsk" in detail

09/18/2020 17:21 2637

But what is worse is that the cancellation or amendment of this Resolution would mean Ukraine's departure from the red line. This will create a precedent when we will no longer be able to say during negotiations in the TCG or at the Normandy level that the post-election border rule is unacceptable for Ukrainian society and will never pass in the Ukrainian parliament...

Akhmetov took everyone out

09/18/2020 15:18 2674

For example, the difficulties with the investigation during the presidency of Petro Poroshenko can be understood: according to the media reports, the ICU investment company, which serves Poroshenko's business, received financial benefits from Rotterdam+. But the government has changed in Ukraine more than a year ago, – and it was still not possible for the NABU to complete the investigation of the case and send it to the court...

New level of Donbass war. COVID as a weapon against civilians

09/10/2020 17:15 2655

If the war was fought between combatants earlier, and civilian population suffered from its consequences, but was not its object, then COVID brought the conflict to a new level, - it became a weapon of war against the civilian population...

L. Kravchuk: The most correct policy is principled policy. Nothing can be conceded!

09/08/2020 10:00 2566

I agree that everything will be quickly resolved there without Russia, the Ukrainians will quickly find mutual understanding. But you have to talk to people. Not only there, but with the Russians too...

The darkling future. How young people from CADLO are torn away from Ukraine

09/01/2020 15:49 2592

Otherwise, he would have been drafted into the "DNR" army, so he was forced to do this and play it safe. He said that some boys would like to go to Ukraine, but are afraid of failure and end up in the local army...

"We have become Russia's colony". Luhansk journal

08/27/2020 13:10 2522

The time has passed when they still wanted to listen to us and sympathized with us. Some even try to provoke the conversation, breathe past emotions into the interlocutors. But the time has passed, there are other things to worry about...

Donetsk residents are ready to travel even in mine cars to find themselves in Ukraine

08/25/2020 10:53 2736

Only those in good health could go on this long journey (it takes 28 hours to get to Kharkiv with pedestrian crossings in some sections) and money (the cost of a one-way trip costs an average of $110)...

The road from Luhansk to Crimea under quarantine conditions

08/14/2020 11:57 2636

There are no masks on the Russian side. There is a conventional box with a conventional antiseptic, but no one is wearing masks. Is there no virus there either?

"DNR" authorities turn observation into "pest house"

08/11/2020 13:55 2434

On the 14th day (!!!) of compulsory observation, five prisoners of the local hospital, who were already going to return home, suddenly heard that they had a "Ukrainian version" of COVID-19...

Oleksii Reznikov: There is every reason for the return of Russian officers to the JCCC

08/07/2020 16:15 2615

There should be a transition period. And transitional justice. They call it the law on amnesty in Minsk, but I would call this the law on responsibility, in which it is necessary to register who is subject to it without any restrictions...

"Ukraine without Crimea and Donbass is still Ukraine. What will Armenia be like if Donbass come there?"

07/31/2020 19:49 2470

This is a dead end. The conflict cannot be resolved that way in principle, this is not a scenario problem, this is not an intellectual problem, this is a problem of the interests of two societies. Not of the authorities...

IDPs did not help. Is there any progress in "Minsk"?

07/24/2020 15:03 2641

Relationship between Kozak and Yermak, who initially got along famously, deteriorated sharply after Kyiv had refused to create an Advisory Council with representatives of CADLO and introduced IDPs to the delegation...

CADLO and quarantine: coronavirus challenge

07/10/2020 11:51 2485

It is not surprising that even according to official data of the "DNR Ministry of Health", mortality from coronavirus in the "republic" is higher than in Ukraine and the world on average...

Russia and Donbass: aggression has its price

07/06/2020 16:02 2487

Gazprom's "charity" price in relation to the "DNR"-"LNR" under such conditions is already completely different than even the one that was a year ago. It remains to add that world prices for coal and metal – the next by importance Russian export item – also declined this year due to the coronavirus crisis.

Checkpoints in Donbass come out of quarantine: taking the mickey out of people

06/27/2020 22:57 2458

What prevents the other side from opening the checkpoints? Firstly, this is the reluctance to let young people go for passing the External independent testing. Secondly, the attempt to force Ukraine to conduct direct negotiations with them. They used all these scandals with the opening of checkpoints so that Ukraine communicates directly with them...

Coronavirus and industry in CADLO: when quarantine is no longer scary

06/24/2020 14:02 3305

The Vneshtorgservis management company announced the shutdown of the Yenakiieve Metallurgical Plant from March 25 a week later. Officially – for scheduled overhaul. In fact – due to falling demand for steel in Europe and other countries where products of the Yenakiieve Metallurgical Plant are illegally shipped...

Serhiy Harmash: I did not see any signs at the TCG that the Russian Federation was up to a constructive dialogue. But out of negotiations…

06/18/2020 10:31 2563

I believe that we can benefit greatly from the passportization of our cross-border regions. And not only from the Russian passportization, – we know that similar processes are ongoing in the west of the country. This is a double-edged sword! Especially in the Donbass, where people get Russian passports mostly out of necessity: either for economic reasons, or being forced at work...

Zelensky's "Plan B" for the Donbass: everything that is known

06/10/2020 14:09 2478

In fact, there is a dress rehearsal of "Plan B" right now, in connection with the introduction of quarantine and the closure of all checkpoints. There are forces that are comfortable with this state of things...

Self-isolation at the seaside, or underground tourist season in Crimea

06/04/2020 16:16 2394

According to Aksyonov, the non-payers will be charged in court for the stay under medical observation. He also noted that his decree on forced paid-for placement under medical observation would be issued in the near future...

Energy betrayal, or How Ukraine helps to keep the Russian economy

05/26/2020 14:59 2619

$262.4 million. Ukrainian importers "sponsored" the economy of the aggressor country for this amount – instead of diversifying supplies by means of manufacturers from Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Lithuania...

Tortures on the conscience of justice. How a mining town was given to the organized criminal gang

05/22/2020 16:35 2469

The organizer of the abduction and torture was a member of a group of people with 5-6 criminal records of conviction, accused of an already committed murder (!), but at the same time, being at liberty (!), and still feeling so confident that he decided to publicly abduct and torture the ATO veteran! What is going on in this Pokrovsk?

"Minsk" in a new way, or How Zelensky reloads negotiations on the Donbass

05/15/2020 18:16 2510

Plan A consisted in the possibility of reaching an agreement directly with Russia, "just stop shooting and making money off the war" and other everyday things that Volodymyr Zelensky manipulated with. When it became clear that this did not work, they wanted to immediately go to the so-called Plan B...

Water supply to the occupied Crimea: ready to jump

05/08/2020 11:28 2595

As of April 3, the total water supply in the Crimean reservoirs of natural runoff is 113.7 million cubic meters, which is 96.8 million cubic meters less than last year at this date...

Yermak on probation: how Zelensky's people rehabilitate main negotiator with Russian Federation

04/30/2020 15:46 2690

Zelensky privately agreed with Andriy Yermak that if the scandal freezes on its own, the negative declines, there is no public outrage with demands for resignation, then he can calmly continue his functions. So Yermak went along the path of "not making sudden movements", but giving a scandal come to fade away...

People are fired in Donetsk for wanting to get money for work

04/27/2020 11:27 2475

An hour after the start of the protest, acting director of the Zasyadko coal mine Vyacheslav Stepanov was urgently summoned to the "Government House", where he was instructed to dismiss all protesters (400 people). Not immediately, of course, so that no one would think that they get rid of too active and unwelcome in this way...

Crimea with coronavirus: strict quarantine, isolation from Russia, holiday (off-)season

04/23/2020 16:23 2547

The Russians book accommodation for the second half of May, however, they are not in a hurry with prepayment. Even when the owner demands some kind of earnest payment, tenants refer to quarantine and book "on their word"...

Coronavirus kills… not everyone. Consequences of the pandemic for the Ukrainian economy

04/10/2020 17:33 2479

The country's leadership is likely to be given a clear signal: either we will play in the energy market according to our rules or the explosion of public anger is possible...

Servant of the People on the verge of collapse: how Donbass caused a quarrel inside Zelensky's team

04/09/2020 10:15 2477

This is a pause, no one refuses it. On the contrary, messages from the authorities that the Advisory Council is not a betrayal and real patriots will be its members and the bit will gradually appear in the media...

Ukraine and economy: why everything is deeper in the red

04/02/2020 10:32 2550

The reason for dismissal of the head of government was his attempt to remove some "nice guy" from the public trough. And not the failed economic results of the country...

Fate of the Donetsk blogger Bolotin as indicator of "freedom of speech" in the "DNR"

03/26/2020 10:58 2489

A little later, it turns out that Alexander Nikolayevich was detained by officers of the "law enforcement agencies" at 9.00 when leaving the house and held until 18.00 in the pre-trial detention center without drawing up a detention protocol and any arrest warrants...

Coronavirus and occupied territories: checkpoints' operation, IDP certificates and pensions

03/23/2020 18:26 2408

Volodymyr Zelensky wanted minimum restrictions and Arsen Avakov – maximum. As a result, they decided to act according to the situation, and the restrictions were more or less compromised. As far as everyone understood, the MIA wanted to prevent anyone from coming from the occupied territories"...

"Reconciliation" from Syvokho, "Council" from Yermak - what did Zelensky conceive?

03/19/2020 16:45 6306

Zelensky does not want peace with Russia, friendship with Putin, special status, exchange of the Crimea for the Donbass, legitimization of the "LDNR", amnesty for militants or everything else. He wants to achieve real peace in Ukraine. This is the number one goal. And he will do everything for this...

Akhmetov polishes Taruta off

03/13/2020 15:32 2738

The fragments of the once powerful financial and industrial group Industrial Union of Donbass are gradually flowing into the orbit of the Metinvest group...

Kolomoyskyi breaks away

03/04/2020 16:47 2573

The growth of political influence of the Privat group after the last year's presidential and parliamentary elections is materialized in economic bonuses for its owner Ihor Kolomoyskyi...

Ukrainian series on RosTV and abandoned hopes of Donetsk people for peace. Donetsk journal

02/28/2020 12:51 2640

As it is known, nature abhors a vacuum - many regional Russian channels from the Rostov oblast and Krasnodar Krai have appeared on the freed up air frequencies...

Life in Donetsk. Not only pensions are raised, but utility bills

02/20/2020 15:39 2745

Regarding the third pension, it turned out to be not so simple as the Donetsk pensioners, who rushed to apply for Russian citizenship in the first ranks, dreamed of. They faced the fact that their new documents mean nothing without registration in the Russian Federation...

Replacing head of President's Office: "hybrid revenge" or ending the Kolomoiskyi era?

02/14/2020 16:38 2562

One of the main advantages of Andriy Yermak, in fact, for which Volodymyr Zelensky appreciates him, is his informal contacts with the Russian Federation, in particular, with the "Ukrainian curators" Vladislav Surkov and Dmitry Kozak...

Friendship sealed with blood, or Who unleashed World War II

02/07/2020 14:13 2607

Having broken the resistance of the demoralized Polish army quite easily, the Soviet troops reached the line of delineation of spheres of influence with Germany defined by the secret protocol...

Surkov "betrayed" the Donbass badly, now the one who will do it better is needed. Review of separatist publications

01/31/2020 12:25 2663

Most narrow-minded "political scientists" agreed that the Kremlin's castling move and replacement of Vladislav Surkov with Dmitry Kozak as part of a new course in the Ukrainian direction would lead, first of all, to a change of leadership of the pseudo-republics...

Bans, or Things which are prohibited in the "republic". Luhansk journal

01/24/2020 15:31 2734

Elevators in high-rise buildings work only until 21:00, and then they are turned off until the morning. It says only that I have had no visits until it is dark and that I have not worked after hours for the past five years. And that the "republic" cut corners even on elevators...

Raids, fines and tariff raising… What New Year brought to the Donetsk residents

01/16/2020 10:52 2582

They also say that the "law enforcers" even have a plan to "catch" people with Ukrainian passports - five people should be detained every day from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m...

Land, casino and new special status for CADLO: what Zelensky's team failed to do for 2019

12/29/2019 17:14 2531

It seems that Razumkov is playing some kind of game and wants to seem good for everyone. Pay attention to how he communicates with opposition parties: he is extremely polite, even friendly. It is rumored that he thinks to run for president in the future...

Economy of the Russian World. "DNR" enterprises shut down

12/20/2019 17:17 2685

The workers of Silur call the transfer of the enterprise into private hands an illegal takeover and say that Lavrenov promised them that serious investors would come to the plant...

2019 results: Champagne for Kolomoyskyi and Akhmetov

12/20/2019 11:55 4819

The decision of the Northern Economic Court of Appeals, which freed the Privat companies from the obligation to repay loans to state-owned Privatbank for $320.3 million, can be considered icing on the cake...

Russia turns Donbass into desert. Why Kremlin needs passportization

12/12/2019 12:33 2413

But it turns out that it is not enough to fulfill the plan. All "civil servants" are literally forced to receive the passports of the "DNR" and the Russian Federation. Even those who are not going to leave because of age...

Recidivists. How murder in Berlin can affect meeting of Normandy Four

12/06/2019 12:13 2646

Taking the circumstances of the murder of a Chechen in Berlin into account, Volodymyr Zelensky receives an additional lever of pressure on the European partners, emphasizing systematic nature of overstepping all possible marks by the Russian government...

Female riot is brewing in the uncontrolled Donbass. A letter to Putin and other realia of a "free" life

11/30/2019 19:25 2487

For the first two and a half years, everything somehow hinged on the Ukrainian resource of the rightful owners, which was gradually depleted and by the fall of 2019, the socio-economic situation in CADLO had deteriorated sharply: salaries to employees of enterprises and state employees began to be delayed and interruptions with the payment of "republican" pensions appeared...

Manipulation, sex trade, betrayal. What did the last election not teach us?

11/28/2019 16:14 2535

Sociological manipulation became the informational special operation designed not only to force voters to vote for the political power Russia needs in Ukraine, but also to legitimize the "DNR"-"LNR" in Ukrainian society as separate political entities...

Pre-trial detention center, scam, Putin and bullet in head. Features of interaction between Donetsk businessmen and Russian "partners"

11/19/2019 12:30 2576

Arbuzov acted cleverly – given that when he was head of the National Bank and deputy prime minister, he managed to become a minority shareholder in many Ukrainian enterprises, take loans from foreign banks and engage in retail all over the world...

Salaries are not paid, but "investors" are fed free of charge. Donetsk journal

11/14/2019 16:51 2573

"Republic" on verge of economic crisis: salaries, pensions and meat in kindergartens

11/08/2019 15:58 2371

In recent days, traditional budgetary wage arrears and pension delays have been supplemented by the restriction of the budgetary nutrition of children in schools and kindergartens, as well as of patients in hospitals...

P. Klimkin: "EU now considers any development of events in Ukraine possible"

11/07/2019 11:23 2314

The EU understands that now everything is focused on one person and everything depends on his decisions and his intuition. But they do not know how much information comes to him, how much he is able to understand the situation in detail. Therefore, they believe that now any options are possible...

Special status of Donbass from Zelensky: to be or not to be

10/29/2019 12:37 2388

Several interlocutors in the presidential team confirmed that the development of the new document is in high gear. Moreover, the President's Office prepares several versions of the future law at once. This work is conventionally called "Plan A". In the event of its failure, Zelensky's team also develops the so-called "Plan B"...

How and what for "population census" was held in CADLO

10/24/2019 14:26 2508

No matter how hard the big bosses tried to carry out explanatory work, many representatives of the people were cautious about the very fact of the census...

Housing and utilities sector of the "republic" is on the verge of collapse. Donetsk journal

10/17/2019 17:17 2402

The Donetsk residents have already realized that the increase in rent, removal of household waste, water and sewage is only the beginning, and soon, their wallets will lose even more weight. After all, they have learned to read between the lines and know the value of all the promises of officials and big bosses of the "people's republic"...

"Our army will not lay down its arms, Ukrainian security forces will not enter the border". Review of separatist publications

10/09/2019 10:47 2646

Significant event for all residents of Donbass occurred. Thanks to the monumental efforts of our negotiators and mediator – the Russian Federation, all the preconditions were met at the meeting of the Contact Group in Kyiv...

ZEconomy: first disappointments

10/07/2019 13:02 2503

The money from the "military fee" does not go to a special trust fund, but to the common state budget stock. Therefore, no one can answer where they are actually spent – on funding the army, or on the purchase of luxury cars for corrupt officials...

War of interpretations. Hopes and realia of quick end to war in Donbass

09/24/2019 16:36 2381

Ukraine wants to control its territory in the Donbass, and the Russian Federation wants the territory to control Ukraine...

Ze oligarchs: redistribution took place

09/18/2019 17:22 2581

Stepan Ivakhiv's WOG group dropped out of the supply of diesel fuel (DF) or one of the largest state corporations in Ukraine.Instead, half the volume was received by Oil Trade 2018 from the Privat orbit, WOG's long-term competitor in the Ukrainian oil products market...

Ilya Ponomarev: Zelensky has more power in Ukraine than Putin in Russia

09/09/2019 16:43 2700

Progress on the Crimean issue will be when Putin ceases to lead the Russian Federation. If this happens under Zelensky, there will be changes under him. If not, then it will be under the next president of Ukraine...

"And this is only five years. What will be next?". Luhansk journal

09/05/2019 15:31 2568

Then an unexpected understanding came – it is all the same to the whole world. You are a line of statistics for them, a victim of shelling or a hostage, interesting only in reports, but not personally...

Who and how will represent Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in new Rada

09/03/2019 13:21 2570

Thirty-six deputies, associated with the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, will work in the new composition of the Verkhovna Rada, which began its work on August 29. Only seven of them are members of the party in power...

“Everything needs to be done so that people who are in hellish conditions feel care of their homeland”. Roman Bezsmertnyi about negotiations in Minsk

08/25/2019 15:38 2480

Legally, the Minsk agreements, if interpreted as agreements, ended on January 1, 2016. They were extended by the decision of representatives of the Normandy format, as if indefinitely. A number of legally strong documents were drawn up under the Minsk agreements. Everything else that is written there, but not enshrined in law and not ratified by the parliament, for the most part is morally, materially and practically out of date...

"Homeland" is in danger! There are no people wishing to serve on contract

08/16/2019 14:35 2686

This year even graduates of the Donetsk "military school" did not want to go to war. Of the graduation of 60 people, only 9 joined the ranks of the "republican army". This is the lowest percentage for four years...

Kolomoyskyi: Time to collect bonuses

08/13/2019 11:06 2809

There is no need to share anymore - starting with ministerial portfolios and ending with directors' chairs in large state-owned companies. Therefore, Privat can expect a pleasant change in the near future...

Donetsk journal. "Border" concreting

08/08/2019 14:46 1653

If the Ukrainian checkpoints have predominantly modular constructions that can be dismantled in a few days under certain favorable conditions to resolve the conflict, then here everything is done thoroughly and for a long time...

Opposition Platform - For Life and Donbass: all according to the Russian scenario

07/19/2019 11:43 1613

Opposition Platform - For Life will use the parliamentary rostrum and their deputy mandates to promote and implement the ideas of the Donbass autonomy, imposing direct negotiations with the "LDNR" militants, restoring trade and economic dependence on the Russian Federation and silencing the Crimea topic...

Servant of the People and Donbass: "pigs in a poke" and "good intentions"…

07/10/2019 11:11 1611

In fact, Servant of the People nominated no strong candidate in the Donbass, having ratted on this strategic region to the pro-Russian forces…

Opposition Bloc and Donbass: "civil conflict" and blind bargaining

07/05/2019 16:26 1702

So it is difficult to talk about the ideology of this party. Most likely, the Opposition Bloc is simply a springboard for representatives of the business groups of the south-eastern region of Ukraine to pass to the parliament...

"Well, I asked Russia for tanks, anti-tank artillery and antiaircraft defenses…" Review of separatist publications

06/27/2019 11:26 1399

The commission actually accuses Russia as a state of international terrorism. To transfer Buk across the border, an entire interdepartmental operation is necessary: Ministry of Defence, MIA, FSB...

Religious unfreedom. What is the difference between the lives of believers in the "DNR" and "LNR"

06/19/2019 14:40 1706

“They will come here soon for passports and pensions”. How Rostov oblast is experiencing influx of "new Russians" from Donetsk and Luhansk

06/13/2019 16:29 1760

Today, due to the alleged mass issue of Russian passports, many in the Rostov oblast expect a new wave of tension. They are confident in Rostov that, following passports, newly-minted Russians from Donetsk and Luhansk will also receive Russian pensions...

Block-long lines are not hindrance. How Donetsk residents go for Russian passport

06/05/2019 10:04 1534

The majority have to be registered in two lines. The first is for receiving the Russian passport, the second is for the "DNR" or "LNR" passport, the presence of which is a condition for obtaining Russian passport...

"Kill" Kolomoyskyi-2

05/29/2019 14:39 1598

The conflict between President Zelensky and Kolomoyskyi is programmed and inevitable. Zelensky cannot but understand this. And he has already begun to act...

"DNR" "Prime Minister" Ananchenko. Who is he and where is he from

05/22/2019 18:42 1973

It is difficult to reliably estimate the general role of Pashkov and Ananchenko in the processes taking place in Donetsk and Luhansk, but it seems that it is about complete control over the local economy and financial flows...

Chlorine-flavored friendship: main lessons from the fuel crisis

05/17/2019 14:58 1617

This time, they got off relatively cheap: a temporary stop of oil refineries in neighboring Belarus cost Ukrainian motorists "extra" 1-1.5 hryvnias per liter at gas stations...

"This is death by hunger". Border guards actually blocked the movement of goods through the only one checkpoint in the Luhansk oblast

05/15/2019 12:45 1512

If there is a list of prohibited goods for ordinary customs, then for checkpoints, the Ukrainian state authorities have created a list of allowed goods. Such a list, a priori, cannot include all goods that, according to simple human logic, should be easily monitored by customs officers, border guards and fiscals...

"We had no alienation to a good-neighborly country". Russian media about Ukraine

05/10/2019 16:50 1497

The residents of "certain areas" do have "humanitarian" problems. But first of all, it is necessary to understand why these problems appeared. They did not appear until April 2014 - until the appearance in the east of Ukraine of armed saboteurs from Russia (like Girkin-Strelkov), pretending to be "desperate miners and tractor drivers", and the military, pretending to be "vacationers" and "volunteers"...

Poroshenko's collapse… Lessons, mistakes, consequences

05/06/2019 10:50 1282

The main result of this election campaign is not Zelensky's victory or Poroshenko's defeat, - it is desacralization of power...

Zelensky's team: Akhmetov's critic, former member of Party of Regions and pediatrician

04/26/2019 15:25 1743

These are experts, this is my team, professional people, experts, young and bright, smart people who will go with me to the Presidential Administration, and who of them will be the best – he/she takes this or that position...

"Pushilin will hand over Donbass and sign any crap without batting an eyelid". Review of separatist publications

04/19/2019 09:35 1760

I translate - Moscow gave the go-ahead for the return of Donbass, provided that local oligarchs have preferences for business and some autonomy, in which even some fighters of the "people's militia" and officials will not be judged (far from everyone). In a loose sense - Chechnya scenario...

Food insanity. Luhansk journal

04/16/2019 16:23 1700

We do not need long speeches from the high tribunes that we do not need Ukraine at all – look into the bags of old people on that bridge. It will be more eloquent than any words – they bring them not from the "republic", but vice versa...

Unknown war: small Luxembourg does not notice big Ukraine

04/11/2019 10:37 1761

I read the information about the joint press conference of the Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn and his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin. I reviewed all our local newspapers - not a word about such a press conference either yesterday or today. Where did it take place - in Luxembourg or Kyiv? And whether it passed at all?

It drives mad that Kyiv deprived citizens of "DNR" and "LNR" of electoral rights. Review of separatist publications

04/02/2019 23:41 1831

In these Ukrainian election, people of Donbass have been doubly a victim, because the UN and EU do not recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics born as a result of the "democratic referendum" and do not give them the right to vote...

Russian money, which exists and not. What we learned from “ministerial” reports published in Donetsk

03/28/2019 10:40 1442

It was the rarest case when economic and demographic indicators of the part of Donetsk oblast uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government got into public space...

Belarusian fail, or How have Lukashenko's people surrendered coal smugglers from CADLO

03/19/2019 17:23 1562

Instead of profit, phenomenal Belarusian "businessmen" got $22.5-26 loss on each ton of coal "re-exported from Russia"...

Five years in occupation. Crimeans told how their lives changed after the "referendum"

03/15/2019 15:57 1372

For ordinary hard-working people, pensioners and state employees, who need peace and stability, the life has changed for the better. If they talk about some kind of repressions, you should not break the law or conduct anti-state activities. Eventually, if you do not like to live in the Crimea - leave for Ukraine...

Will Poroshenko pay Kolomoyskyi $3.2 billion compensation for Zelensky?

03/12/2019 12:16 1548

This fraud scheme should be considered in the context of the next presidential election in Ukraine, which will be held in less than a month. Perhaps it was at that amount that two oligarchs estimated the winding down of Zelensky's political career…

Power and money. What you need to know about business of main presidential candidates

03/06/2019 17:14 1655

Against the background of the candidates listed above, business and income of showman Volodymyr Zelensky do not look serious enough – nevertheless, they do not have a dubious scandalous trail...

"The bridge did not help". How the Kerch Bridge opening affected life in the occupied Crimea

03/01/2019 16:26 1613

After the launch of the notorious bridge, even the minimum set of food products has risen in price. This is only official data. Local residents complain in conversations with OstroV that prices have risen by at least one third over the past year...

Metal from "DNR": trade on the black market

02/25/2019 10:22 2185

The secret of "business success" is simple: a fantastically cheap cost price. It allows S.Kurchenko to sell the products of the Makiivka and Yenakiieve Iron & Steel Works (and even of the Alchevsk Iron & Steel Works) 30% cheaper than the market value...

Donetsk journal. Growing prices for products and equipment

02/18/2019 17:56 1408

Essential goods gradually increase in price as well. Oil, meat, bread, cheese, sausage and fish become more expensive every week. It would not be too noticeable, but if a 180 gram pack of Brest Lytovske butter with 82.5% fat cost $2.05 on January 20, then it is already $2.3 on February 7...