Articles — OstroV

04/16/2019 16:23 2318

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 2326

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 2386

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 1940

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 2161

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 1838

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 1927

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 2187

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 2092

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 2836

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 1793

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...

Presidential election: Yuriy Boyko and his "Medvedchuk plan" to achieve peace in Donbass

02/15/2019 10:07 1775

It is planned to create the Donbass autonomous region as part of Ukraine. It assumes organization through government bodies such as parliament, government and other bodies that will carry out their livelihoods in the Donbass. The third principle, which is the basic one, is that our plan is based on the Minsk agreements approved by the UN Security Council resolution, meets the Normandy format declaration and current legislation of Ukraine

Smuggling. Luhansk journal

02/08/2019 09:54 2006

Over the past four years, many people have strongly disappointed in everything that at least has something to do with Russia. They tired of too frozen ground beef and by-products from Belarus...

Adventures of coal from the "DNR", or price of the Russian World

01/31/2019 17:52 3159

Coal smuggling from CADLO was made part of a chain of unspoken political and economic agreements. The annual illegal export of coal from the uncontrolled territories is approaching the mark of 10 million tons per year. The annual revenue is $220 million – quite a good incentive to cling to the ideas of the Russian World till the last breath...

Presidential election: Volodymyr Zelensky about war and peace

01/25/2019 16:27 4044

I really want to address Mr. Putin. Dear Vladimir Putin, do not allow even a hint at the military conflict on your part, because Russia and Ukraine are really fraternal peoples...

Why they "serve" here. Luhansk journal

01/23/2019 16:13 1942

My acquaintance, having returned from Russia, immediately went to serve in the local army. A little excusing to me, he explained: where are they paying now?

Christmas holidays in Donetsk, or Life with uncertainty

01/17/2019 10:49 1864

Donetsk turns into a ghost town. Half-empty streets, broken windows, collapsing facades of houses, thriving marauding. Central streets seem to be lit, but due to the lack of light in windows, it seems that the city has plunged into darkness...

"LNR" miners send "New Year's" letters to Pasechnik and "prosecutors"

12/28/2018 14:38 1773

They took him in his underwear at a temperature of -2, they took out several people who were taking part in the strike out of town, gave them shovels and forced them to dig holes, and while they were digging holes, they told what they would do to their wives and children...

Vyacheslav Likhachev: "The current situation has a cumulative depressive effect"

12/19/2018 13:02 2447

The parliamentary and presidential elections of the next year will not be held in a large part of the controlled territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Also "for security reasons", but with a political estimate, because the people of these regions do not have much sympathy for the ruling president and parties of the current government...

In the space of four years… Luhansk journal

12/13/2018 14:55 2024

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 2038

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 2044

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 1879

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 1800

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 1354

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 1459

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 1713

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 1403

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 2146

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...

"Ukraine is blamed for everything". The ways of creating anti-Ukrainian moods in the Crimea

10/05/2018 15:23 1318

We have problems in agriculture, high prices on vegetables, fruits and bread, and now such a technological catastrophe has happened as well. The Ukrainian authorities just need to remember that any patience has its end, and today or tomorrow, Russia will turn on the water in the Crimea by force...

Andrii Klymenko: Russia can close the Azov Sea for Ukraine at any moment

10/01/2018 11:13 2145

Foreign diplomats do not understand the lack of response from Ukrainian border guards.But it is worthwhile to understand that the Russian Federation has huge sea traffic through the Sea of Azov, this is one of the main Russian export routes for grain. And in some places it passes very close to the Ukrainian coast...

"This is scary". IDPs have more problems with payment of pensions

09/19/2018 11:24 1455

The peculiarity of the system is that only the fact of departure is recorded. Any person who goes to Donetsk, for example, even for 10 days, can get on this list, which will receive the Pension Fund and immediately suspend the payment of pension...

Appointment of Pushilin and Donbass "elections". Quick look

09/14/2018 15:28 1348

If the "election" does take place, and the Verkhovna Rada refuses to prolong the "law on special status", then Russia's attempts to organize another entrapment in Donbass to arrange Minsk-3 cannot be ruled out. Considering that Minsk-2 was organized also after Minsk-1 and under the supervision of Surkov, such a variant of the development of events fits into the behavioral model of Putin's assistant...

Liquidation of Zakharchenko. The victim of bluff and blackmail

09/10/2018 12:44 1376

Was Zakharchenko's death part of the plan, or just a perfect timing for Moscow, but Moscow's attack on "Minsk" and accusations of Ukraine of his "death", that began after it, clearly show that the Kremlin is stepping up efforts to coerce Kyiv into fulfilling the political part of Minsk-2...

From "DNR" to free Ukraine: "residents of occupation zone are unwanted"

08/31/2018 22:56 1338

This trip did not give me any moral strength or faith. The hope that the Donbass will be liberated, almost died...

"The West "outplayed" the Kremlin in Donbass". Russian media about Ukraine

08/20/2018 12:49 2003

"Ukraine "has a great responsibility for Russia, like Britain, for example, for the United States of America", since "the main intellectual inflow to Russia has long been through Ukraine"...

Truth about the nuclear explosion at the Yunkom mine. Witnesses' testimonies

08/10/2018 16:08 3818

In the southern wing, along the most gas-producing seam, the mine was deepened even further by 50 meters. And they made a concrete chamber there. When an explosive device was put there, it was covered with sand, cement, there were several concrete bulkheads...

Letters from there. Life in the occupation. What's new

07/31/2018 13:56 1469

The news of the day - curfew was reduced. It had been from 23:00 to 5:00, and now - from 1:00 to 5:00. People posted this information, but it has not been officially announced so far. The youth is pleased, because they can go out more...

Soft power. Chance to break the deadlock in Donbass

07/26/2018 14:09 1367

We change little or nothing in the Donbass. Yes, we changed ATO to the JFO, but how did this affect the situation? We do not change anything radically: we do not fight, and we do not agree. The conflict has reached a deadlock...

Bait for Kuts. What will the new "governor" do with the most scandalous and most profitable business in the warring region?

07/17/2018 13:48 1582

As of mid-May 2018, passengers from "zeros" and entry-exit checkpoints were transported, in particular, by the enterprises of Reva and family of former "governor" Anatoliy Blyzniuk, as well as by one company and a number of individual entrepreneurs, which can be conditionally attributed to a kind of Pokrovsky "clan", which, according to the interlocutors of OstroV, eventually take the lead in FV...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 16 - 30 June, 2018

07/09/2018 16:22 1709

Increased Russian aggression in the Azov-Black Sea basin and Southern Ukraine is expected should international pressure on the Russian Federation continue to weaken...

"International Provisional Administration is aimed at not letting to reformat the conflict from interstate to civilian one"

06/27/2018 11:08 1347

Without the revision of the Minsk agreements, the issue of a real settlement of the situation will not advance. In other words, it is impossible to refuse that document, but it can be filled with new content, taking into account new geopolitical realities...

Parallel reality, or What happens to the "LNR" industry

06/21/2018 14:50 2068

Sounding promises of the so-called "LNR" leaders to launch economy on the one hand and uttermost hopelessness when it comes to implementation of ambitious plans on the other. And there is not even a hint that these planes will once intersect at one point…

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 1 - 15 June, 2018

06/21/2018 12:52 1561

The Kremlin's intention of preserving its policy of "managed chaos" as an instrument of influence over Ukraine was reflected by the reappointment of V.Surkov to the post of V.Putin's aide overseeing Ukraine matters...

Crimean Bridge: the road to the Soviet Union for a huge price. The first results of the tourist season

06/18/2018 17:41 3966

The bridge gives the opportunity to come to the Crimea, but does not make it cheaper, does not make the service better. It is still a "gray zone" for the rest of the world...

Shells do not choose where to fall. Wars of front-line villages in the Donetsk oblast

06/04/2018 22:24 1733

With the cessation of active fighting near Starohnativka, another war, the civil one, came to the village: for humanitarian aid. Suspicion, envy and hatred of those who allegedly receive more divided neighbors, friends and even relatives...

Four environmental problems on both sides of the line of demarcation. What is known and what to expect in the near future

05/31/2018 19:32 1594

The flooded areas will double and will cover 65% of the region's area. What does it mean? First of all, this is a significant deterioration in the quality of water in aquifers, which will make it undrinkable. The second: flooding is a bog...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from May 1 to May 15, 2018

05/22/2018 12:20 1934

The growing confrontation in the Donbass, as well as political factors in Kyiv and Moscow, makes the escalation of the armed conflict almost inevitable...

Poroshenko: war is of no problem for money

05/21/2018 15:17 2065

The business of President Petro Poroshenko is on the rise despite the problems in the national economy. Russian aggression in the Donbass, threatening growth of the national debt and low country rating, volatility of hryvnia – all this does not practically affect the performance of companies and enterprises of FIG Ukrprominvest...

Seven circles of hell. Luhansk journal

05/16/2018 11:41 1405

People are standing extremely tight. And only those who cannot stand by their age are sitting. On her return, my friend noticed that her face was sunburnt – in April, in the very same queue…

IDPs were left without pensions again. "The order to suspend payments came "from upstairs"…

05/11/2018 10:29 1997

I called to the Pension Fund and social services office but they just told me to wait because they received some instructions to conduct additional checks on those who had traveled to the occupied territory. Nothing else was said. It is still unknown when the pension comes. And this is the only source of income, no savings...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine April 16 - May 1, 2018

05/07/2018 16:38 1472

The main offensive weapons of the Russian Federation - intermediate-range and long-range missiles - are now less effective what should also affect the planning of Russia's foreign policy and aggression for the nearest future...

Collaborators? What awaits the residents of Donbass and Crimea after their return to Ukraine

05/01/2018 14:30 1597

We separated millions of people and told them that there could be no complaints against them. Of the remaining approximately 500 thousand (in total for the Crimea and Donbass), 95 thousand will be criminally responsible and will serve time and the rest will be integrated into the peaceful life despite the fact that under the current Criminal Code of Ukraine, they had to go to jail...

Affordable housing for displaced residents: the program is close to the edge

04/26/2018 11:57 1542

Why does the ministry try to choose objects? Why cannot we choose them? It's like some kind of corrupt scheme, they probably have their facilities and developers, whom they want to promote...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 1 - 15 April, 2018

04/20/2018 13:12 1612

The policy of compulsory isolation of the human population inside the occupied territories of Donbass from Ukraine continues. The "DNR" authorities are preparing for the monopolization of the Internet...

Directions of lies. Talking points how to describe "image of junta" and "image of Head" were spread in "LNR"

04/18/2018 11:18 1397

They are not only curious, but also symptomatic, since they show HOW the occupation administrations brainwash people living in the territories under their control and WHAT they want to present themselves and us like...

A year without Ukraine. Real results of the "DNR’s" economy

04/13/2018 15:01 1825

Those, who follow the events in the occupied territories of Donbass, could not help but notice how local tsars like to celebrate all anniversaries and dates...

Faces of Russian Spring in Donetsk. Photo memoirs

04/11/2018 16:33 2516

Another capture of Donetsk regional administration and proclamation of the "DNR" took place in Donetsk in these April days 4 years ago. We do not know how those people, with whose hands and support those events began, live now. But it was they who initiated the current war...

A bill from Rotterdam, or How Poroshenko and Akhmetov made money off of Ukrainians

04/07/2018 20:33 2003

Thanks to R+, DTEK regained its pre-crisis solvency – at the expense of millions of Ukrainian citizens, whom the authorities via the NEURC forced to pay for electricity at exorbitant tariffs...

"Without us, this territory would have been under Ukraine’s control long time ago". Review of separatist publications

04/05/2018 10:43 1894

"Do you know how our partial mobilization is accompanied? Do you know that in order to equip reservists, the operating units have to return the uniform obtained in… 2015, which has long since decayed on the frontline...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 16 - 31 March, 2018

04/04/2018 17:03 1997

Rinat Akhmetov is directing the efforts of patronized non-governmental organizations and work with local youth in preparation of his return to the role of the boss of Donbass...

Anti-Jeanne. The paradox of Savchenko

03/29/2018 11:31 1747

Perhaps, if she had not been so carried away by her martyrdom, she would have understood what politics is. And then she would either shot herself, or began to CHANGE it from within. But... she did not understand anything, so she decided to SHOOT from the inside...

Oleksandr Khara: Russia will use different methods of hybrid war

03/27/2018 10:17 1958

The main goal of the Russian Federation is not to protect the Russian-speaking population, but to establish control over the whole of Ukraine. In fact, they are trying to impose limited sovereignty. This means that Ukraine will not be able to independently resolve the issue of joining NATO and the EU...

Main trends in the Development of the Conflict in the East of Ukraine 1-16 March, 2018

03/21/2018 16:21 1593

Putin officially announced that he considers the withdrawal of "republics of the USSR" from Russia to be illegal and will make efforts to return them to Russia as Russia is preparing a disguised Russian-Belorussian military contingent of “international peacekeepers” for the Donbass...

Volker's mistake. Misconception of the Kremlin's goals stipulates the inefficiency of Western policy towards the Donbass

03/16/2018 13:51 1546

Putin's real goal is not Ukraine. Subjection of Kyiv or strengthening the Assad regime are only stages of achieving the goal. Putin formulated and announced the ultimate goal in Munich in 2007 – it is a bipolar world, return of Russia to the status of the second world leader, the superpower, that she lost with the defeat of the USSR in the Cold War...

Kurt Volker: I want to remove words like "trust" and "compromise" from the dictionary

03/14/2018 15:57 1971

There is no place for the “DPR” or “LNR” in the Ukrainian constitutional order. The Minsk agreements are intended to restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and these establishments need to disappear. Russia is constantly trying to deny its responsibility and insist that the two entities that it created are allegedly legitimate representatives of the inhabitants of the Donbass...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 16 February - 1 March 1, 2018

03/12/2018 12:47 1481

Social tension is rising in Donbas amidst the region's progressive isolation from Ukraine and Russia’s concern that Ukraine will militarily liberate the occupied territories...

"I am afraid for people who believe in Russia…" Review of separatist publications

03/06/2018 17:45 1719

It's no coincidence that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Minsk agreements are more important than any laws that Ukraine adopts... It is more important for Russia to achieve peace in the Donbass than games of Ukrainian politicians who solve their problems... Despite the dead end that exists in the Minsk agreements, Russia will continue to participate in the process as long as there are any chances that they will be fulfilled...

Fired from Karachun – but why? The circumstances of the death of the Italian photographer Andrea Rocchelli and his interpreter Andrei Mironov

03/02/2018 10:11 1965

For more than half a year, an Italian citizen of Ukrainian origin, a fighter of the National Guard Vitaliy Markiv...

Mykhaylo Basarab: Implementation of Minsk agreements will lead to civil confrontation throughout Ukraine

02/27/2018 09:44 1600

The agreements register the fact of internal conflict on the territory of Ukraine and offer its settlement at the expense of Kyiv's cessions to the so-called rebellious republics. If you consider the formal point of view and read the "Minsk agreements" literally, then Moscow, indeed, has grounds to resent why sanctions are applied against it...

"Russia is unlikely to recognize the DNR and the LNR". Review of separatist publications

02/22/2018 16:48 1785

He himself is frankly disappointed in the Kremlin's position and believes that Russia is just pushing the Minsk agreements as capitulation with the preservation of face. "Moscow is throwing Donbass… Is there a "cunning plan"? Yes, of course. Its goal is to leave the Donbass, so that to protect the Crimea...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from February 1 to February 16, 2018

02/21/2018 16:37 1867

The self-isolation trend of the Donbas "republics" grows as “DNR” authorities launch an intimidation campaign against citizens crossing the demarcation line. Donetsk talks of total checkpoint closures...

"It is time to boot out these idiots". Review of separatist publications

02/15/2018 17:04 1751

And this is how the apocalypse described by Basurin looks like: 4 tanks with the support of 6 artillery guns go on the offensive on 1 km of the front. Either the AFU were foisted a pure misinformation, and Basurin read this balderdash out aloud, or the corps intelligence chief is an idiot and gave these data, being in comatose condition. Then it is time to boot out these idiots...

"Mobilization" in the "DNR-LNR". What is it and why now? – "…In the detail" with Serhiy Harmash

02/09/2018 09:38 1984

We will remind you that martial law and compulsory universal military obligation operate in the so-called "DNR" and "LNR". That is, in accordance with the law of the "DNR" On Military Duty and Military Service, any of the "citizens" of the "DNR-LNR" can legitimately be mobilized at any moment...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine 16 – 31 January, 2018

02/07/2018 15:22 1636

In turn, it can also provoke Russia to pressure Kyiv by escalating the conflict in Donbass. An escalation of this sort would foreseeably occur soon after the presidential election in Russia, and before the delivery of American Javelins to Ukraine. The escalation may begin even earlier if Putin decides he needs to mobilize his electorate on the eve of the elections...

"Sobering from hot 2014 comes gradually". Review of separatist publications

02/06/2018 17:36 1510

From all appearances, the special services of the "republic" managed to put down a "mutiny aboard" without using rubber batons. Publications with appeals to go to a rally in defence of MTS suddenly disappeared from the network. The rally did not happen...

Former acting Mayor of Sloviansk Oleh Zontov: "The region is ready for territorial division"

02/02/2018 14:18 1541

During the seizure of the city police station, Nelya came there, just like me. They tried to arrest me. This happened when I went to the city department and began to "scold" the deputy head of the city's administrative department, Volodymyr Belyanin, who, as it later turned out, facilitated the seizure - he went to the Crimea after that...

Preparations for mobilization are taking place in the "republics"

01/26/2018 22:31 1694

The "liable for military service of the DNR" are provided a temporary deferment from the draft or registered as reserved. And this means that they can be dressed in camouflage and sent to the front at any moment.

"It developed that problem is not in Ukraine at all, is it?" Review of separatist publications

01/25/2018 12:05 1659

Why not work with info-leaders in social networks? There are about 20 such people in the Republic. Why not pay them wages, but to give them autonomy from the Ministry of Information? They work more efficiently than hundreds of press service employees throughout the Republic...

The main trends in the conflict in the East of Ukraine for the period of 16 December to January 16, 2018

01/22/2018 20:51 1613

Self-isolation continues in the "DNR" and the "LNR" as Zakharchenko, the Leader of the puppet republic, slaps "state" employees with a travel ban to Ukraine and Vodafone-Ukraine, the only mobile operator providing communication with the government-controlled territories of Ukraine, is shut down...

Reintegration of Donbass: International provisional administration as an alternative to blue helmets

01/18/2018 15:29 1583

One of the key discussions of experts unfolded around the participation of representatives of the Russian Federation – the aggressor and the instigator of the conflict - in the civil administration of the IPA. On the one hand it is impossible for Ukraine to ignore the Russian Federation, on the other – it is illogical to maintain the key influence of the Russian Federation on the management of territories, temporarily uncontrolled by Ukraine...

2018. What kind of pig Year of the Dog prepares for us

01/12/2018 09:43 1649

The conclusion follows: the construction of the Nord Stream 2 is almost a solved matter and the Ukrainian side will not be able to disrupt the project. This means that Ukraine will lose not 3% of its gross domestic product due to a complete loss of revenues from gas transit, but approximately 1.5%...

Andriy Senchenko: Poroshenko did not initially intend to give his faction the go-ahead for law on the "reintegration of Donbass"

12/28/2017 17:17 1670

The problem is that after 3.5 years of Poroshenko's work, there is not a single authority whom people trust. With anti-rating of more than 90%, all the branches of power in our country no longer represent the interests of the Ukrainian people...

"He landed in Rostov, went to Donetsk and immediately disappeared". Review of separatist publications

12/26/2017 09:28 1618

You do not give a shit about the opinion of people? Have you organized a small Ukraine in one particular small DNR? Well, it does not matter. November-18 is soon, elections. People will give you greetings back...

The main trends in the conflict in the East of Ukraine For the period 1 – 16 December, 2017

12/21/2017 12:18 1554

Ukrainian President Poroshenko, thinking about his own future, may seek secret support from the Kremlin... Moscow announced the withdrawal of Russian representatives from the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire...