Articles — OstroV

"Red lines" for Ukraine. What questions should Kyiv answer to itself before the decision on peacekeepers or the International Provisional Administration is made?

12/11/2017 15:54 1472

Issues of critical importance for the real reintegration remain open: who will pay for restoration of the destroyed infrastructure, who and under what laws will judge the war criminals and in what rights may the political collaborators of CDDLO be limited?

Puppets’ riot. Postscript to the events in Luhansk and some uncomfortable questions to Moscow

12/08/2017 16:17 1440

And is it possible to believe that the "ministers" Pasechnik and Kornet did not know about everything that the entourage of Plotnitsky was accused of, up until this entourage and Plotnitsky himself evicted Kornet from the house he had seized?

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from November 16 to November 30, 2017

12/07/2017 16:20 1547

Having chosen the military machine as the main instrument for achieving its foreign policy goals, the Kremlin became dependent on the power block, what started to determine its foreign and domestic policies...

"Plotnitsky lost when, starting his game, he could not remain useful to the system". Review of separatist publications

12/04/2017 15:21 1739

Igor Plotnitsky wrote a resignation statement in connection with his alleged health issues and devolved power on Pasechnik. This way, he violated the "republican" "constitution", according to which, in case of the resignation of head, his position is occupied by the chairman of the "people's council"...

"Information that the DNR Ministry of State Security goes to disarm them has been received". Review of separatist publications

11/24/2017 23:46 1674

The "militia commanders" support Kornet, the "corps", that is, the "army" of CDLO "will stand neuter, since there are no real commanders left". "In fact, Plotnitsky went all-in… In case of resignation, there is no place for him either in the LNR, or in the Russian Federation…"

"Everyone is so done with the Donbass conflict". Russian media about Ukraine

11/23/2017 15:16 2069

But success is needed quickly. In this sense, the exchange of prisoners is a win-win situation. It does not affect the security interests of the parties to the conflict, it does not change anything in the alignment of forces in the region, but it has a solid humanitarian weight and propaganda potential...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from November 1 to November 16, 2017

11/21/2017 13:34 1566

Russia is not interested in preserving the population of Donbass. Several tens of thousands of militants and members of their families, who may be the initial threat to Kyiv, are enough. They can also be a mechanism for destroying the territorial integrity of Ukraine in the case of implementation of the "Minsk agreements"...

Main forces of law enforcement bodies are paralyzed by the actions of the head of the LNR. Review of separatist publications

11/17/2017 16:31 1562

The self-proclaimed leadership and establishment of the Donetsk "republic" were practically on the side of the security forces of CDLO, and therefore — against Igor Plotnitsky...

Donbass as a symptom. Why the problem of war cannot be solved without reforms in Ukraine itself

11/15/2017 12:41 1787

No one argues with the fact that the war is happening in Ukraine, but also in the speeches of politicians, and in the "voice of the people", there is often a feeling for what is happening in the Donbass is the problem primarily of those who live (or lived) in that region...

Semen Semenchenko: This is not Maidan, - this is Sich

11/13/2017 17:43 1639

In addition, we will put such tents in each major city, they will become points of anti-oligarchic, anti-corruption resistance in the country. I think that we will be able to achieve significant and very serious results no later than February next year...

"When the war has no purpose, it turns into violence". Review of separatist publications

11/11/2017 00:01 1442

This is a struggle of the centers of power, first of all, or, more common, — of different towers. For whom is the blow being delivered? It is believed that for Surkov… But what is in practice? Vladimir Putin does not "waste" Surkov, but pours all the sh*t on us"...

Ukrainians can remain without heating and electricity because of cyberattacks - Expert on cybersecurity

11/07/2017 17:26 1679

Russian cyber troops are in world’s top-five ranking of cyber troops. And in Ukraine, there are no cyber troops in general...ou can sit in the office and remotely control, for example, the work of the nuclear power plant - to push the regulation rod of the nuclear reactor more or less, what practically invites the second Chornobyl...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from October 16 to October 31, 2017

11/05/2017 12:35 1601

Russia once again, but at the highest level, demonstrated its unwillingness to resolve the conflict in the Donbass and to stop attempts to destroy Ukrainian sovereignty...

Candidates for the kings of the "DNR" began to confront each other. Review of separatist publications

10/30/2017 10:26 3734

The long-awaited personal meeting of Borodai and Zakharchenko took place at the opening of the monument in Rostov, and I am sure that now they are partners again. Zakharchenko received in his person the one who will perform dirty work to discredit the main opponent - me...

The crisis of charity. Luhansk journal

10/25/2017 11:20 1495

Another problem appeared in the "republic", which may seem ridiculous against the backdrop of war, but it is quite significant in and of itself. All projects, funded by the money of donors, non-governmental organizations and charity funds, came out from the occupied part of the Luhansk oblast...

Ukrainian courts establish the fact of aggression of the Russian Federation and award damages

10/23/2017 12:20 1610

Internally displaced persons can count on €35 000, and families of dead ATO servicemen - on €60 000. In early October 2017, the Court of Kyiv established the legal fact of the forced relocation of the family from the occupied Donbass "as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and the occupation of part of the territory of the Donetsk oblast"...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from October 1 to October 15, 2017

10/20/2017 13:00 1651

The development of events in the last two weeks shows that, contrary to the efforts of the USA and the Western European member countries of the Normandy Four, the parties to the conflict in the east of Ukraine – Kyiv and Moscow – have not become closer to its resolution...

An alternative to Minsk. Interim international administration and the new Constitution

10/17/2017 13:14 1578

After blocking the financing, armed groups will be greatly weakened, and those who came to them not for wages, but for other reasons, either leave for Russia or will be gradually destroyed...

Bad news for Putin and Zakharchenkos with Plotnitskys

10/12/2017 17:25 1695

Illegal products are sold with a significant discount in comparison to the products of legal producers. From this follows one simple conclusion: the authorities of the "DNR" are not able to adjust the work of the rest of the economy of Donbass in the self-repayment regime...

Peacekeepers, reintegration, special status... – Where is the situation with the Donbass moving to

10/09/2017 11:29 1472

Unfortunately, none of the scenarios benefits Ukraine because no scenario is its scenario. Even the peace that the Minsk agreements can temporarily bring will ultimately result in even greater instability for the country because, while Russia exists as an empire, not as a democracy...

Laws on the Donbass "reintegration": honey and tar

10/05/2017 16:26 1768

Both draft laws have both positive and negative aspects. In the first one, the president proposes to recognize Russia as an aggressor country, but he also introduces illegitimate "Minsk agreements" into the Ukrainian legislative field...

The main trends in the development of the conflict in the East of Ukraine from September 16 to October 1, 2017

10/05/2017 14:10 1419

Both sides use the conflict to solve their internal and geopolitical problems. Russia augments efforts (both military and political) to establish the control over Ukraine in the future (more likely, after 2018 presidential elections). And President Poroshenko uses it to strengthen personal power...

Hybrid peacekeepers. Responsibility for the Donbass fate cannot be shifted to the UN

09/29/2017 09:23 1541

"This problem will be resolved as soon as Ukraine recognizes these territories as occupied. Now they have a hybrid status, there are even no official prisoners of war – there are only hostages and illegally detained citizens. And these hostages are being exchanged, because there are no prisoners of war in the legal boundaries of ATO...

"The Republic lives and is ruled by rumors". The review of separatist publications

09/21/2017 15:28 1577

If you look at Minsk documents, we should have done everything in 2015: we had to reach a level of contractual relations with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine", - Danego also said, answering the question about the prospects for recognition of the Luhansk "republic" as "a party to the political process”...

Russia changes supply logistics to the occupied Donbass. Through Belarus

09/19/2017 16:06 1503

The export of the Republic of Belarus to the Rostov region of Russia (which borders with the Donbass) grew by 20.5% in 2016, reaching $201 million. And in May 2017, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Rusy promised to bring the trade turnover with the Rostov region to $500 million...

Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev: Putin's interest is to "sell" the Donbass at а high price

09/18/2017 10:18 1943

The problem is the disinterest of elite groups in the development of their country. In fact, they are only interested in taking out funds and they do not care what remains after that in the state...

Poroshenko changed the whip to a carrot

09/14/2017 14:27 1571

This summer, president Petro Poroshenko demonstrated diplomatic talents and the ability to negotiate with external partners on favorable terms...

August-2017. The main trends of the month in the Donbass conflict

09/08/2017 14:29 1434

The leaders of Donetsk separatists admitted the financial losses of the "republics" because of the blockade on the part of Ukraine and the inevitability of returning to the sovereignty of Kyiv. Russia showed that it will not sacrifice its economic interests for the sake of supporting the captured enclaves...

"No status - no pension". Internally displaced persons are massively being deprived of pensions

09/08/2017 13:59 2104

People abandon a displaced person certificate because they faced strict control procedures, they do not need scanty payments, they just want to receive their pensions, but they are forced to get this certificate again...

Ruined Sloviansk. Three years after the war

09/01/2017 09:24 2137

When on the ruined house of the young family that has already become not even a local, but a national place of interest, a banner with the text "Dear President and Prime Minister of Ukraine!!! Are you not ashamed of your empty promises to restore the housing?" appeared. Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine visited Illia and Nastia and browbeaten into removing this banner

Kind of life in kind of state. Luhansk journal

08/30/2017 10:53 1412

Unprofessionalism is a general trend here and one should treat it at ease – you bought a thing, threw it away, bought a new one. Stress and frustration will only hurt you, reducing your life. Or do not do anything here – do not build, do not give birth, do not receive treatment... do not live...

"Autumn in the Donbass will be hot". Russian media about Ukraine

08/20/2017 14:01 2281

The Right Sector militants are better prepared and armed, but they do not have heavy weapons... So, if necessary, the army can easily destroy them. I am sure that the gang will work in a different way: it will organize new mass provocations at the frontline in order to provoke the LDNR on the offensive...

Serhiy Zhadan: unfortunately, Donbass pays a very high price for its Ukrainian choice

08/18/2017 16:17 1948

For me personally, this is an opportunity to show a whole layer of literature in its natural affinity with native writing. Donbass has given (and continues to give) Ukraine a large number of extremely talented names. It would be good to remember this when rating our fellow citizens who live in the East...

Back in the USSR. Luhansk journal

08/12/2017 15:22 1911

I often hear that the Belarusian goods are cheap. This also surprises – with the condition of delivery here, extra charges and so on, imported products are still twice cheaper in the local "Luhansk delicacies"...

"The situation is objectively complex". Review of the separatist media

08/12/2017 07:37 1600

There are no official calculations of the subsistence minimum in the open access, but according to the most conservative estimates, in the heating season, even unquestionably cheap republican housing and communal services for a very modest housing will still require up to $17 per month, that is, almost half of the minimum pension...

Conflict in the Donbass. Recent trends and sentiments

08/07/2017 10:42 1693

It is the fourth year of the war and we all see that the situation has not just reached a deadlock, - it has reached a dead end...

Extra mouths! Why the "DNR-LNR" began a campaign against displaced residents

08/07/2017 10:36 1443

They are a burden in course of stagnating economy. They are needed to be fed, provided with pensions, unemployment benefits, humanitarian aid… And this increases the cost of the Donbass gamble for the Kremlin seriously...

"We are collective persona "non grata". Review of the separatist media

08/04/2017 13:40 1689

It should be noted that unfortunately, the Donbass issue is not on the agenda of the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. From 2014, Patriarch Kirill has not once addressed the people of Donbass publicly. Have we become the collective persona non grata for the higher hierarchy of our church?

"They drove us out at the barrel of the machine gun and took our wedding rings..."

07/28/2017 09:25 1761

May 5 was the day of the first shelling. Until then, my husband once said: "Look, the Chechens"...

"Under the guise of a tourist blockade". The fourth (off-)season in the Crimea

07/25/2017 23:33 1751

The Kremlin started new topic - the so-called tourist blockade of the Crimea on the part of Ukraine... And the explanation is simple - fewer Russians are going to the Crimea. The reason is simple: Russians do not get richer from year to year, but the rest in the Crimea becomes more expensive...

"Malorossia" - what was that?

07/21/2017 22:23 1779

This can indicate only two options: either to frighten the West and increase its pressure on Kyiv in order to fulfill the unprofitable Minsk agreements by Ukraine; or vice versa: Zakharchenko and Co. are being cheated again in order to blame them for arbitrariness, disruption of the Minsk, and to abandon the support of Donetsk separatists. However, more likely, these two aims were pursued simultaneously...

Vasyliy Laptyichuk: "Putin has no interest in escalating the conflict in Ukraine now"

07/20/2017 17:08 1515

Any military development of events in the territory of Ukraine threatens us with destruction, casualties and environmental losses, but the Russian Federation is also threatened with defeat in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the state, because the horde after the defeat always collapses...

New stage of war? Acts of terrorism in Luhansk

07/13/2017 17:34 1622

Was it beneficial for Ukraine to commit such senseless terrorist acts, precisely on the day of the G-20 meeting and Putin's negotiations with Trump? – Definitely not. Was it beneficial for Russia and the so-called "LNR" to present Ukraine in Hamburg as a terrorist – yes, definitely...

Autumn may be hot. Two factors that will have a significant impact on the security of Ukraine

07/06/2017 18:05 1562

But Ukraine can expect attack this autumn not only from the side of Belarus. At the end of August, Moscow plans another event, which will significantly affect the national security of Ukraine...

Is the offensive in the Donbass really possible tomorrow?

07/02/2017 22:35 1731

Geopolitical background is favorable for changing the format of diplomatic solution to a conflict in the Donbass (which Poroshenko persistently does not want to use), but not the military one...

Makiivka notes. Weekdays in the occupation

06/30/2017 19:22 1687

School camps are popular now. Parents with great pleasure send children there. The main reason is FREE two meals a day. According to reviews, the meals are good: soup with meatballs, porridge with stew, etc. I asked if it was not the same with Ukrainian authorities?

Berezove. A wild field, or How difficult it is to live in such conditions

06/29/2017 12:09 1889

Ukrainian troops execute a withdrawal towards Vuhledar and the DPR checkpoint appears in the village. Secret agents of the "republics" begin to walk around the yards and "politely" talk the people over...

Putin's humiliation

06/25/2017 23:02 1540

The crushing defeat of Gazprom Russian state concern in the course of the arbitration proceeding in Stockholm can be viewed as a personal humiliation of the Russian leader. For the first time in many years of economic and political conflict with Ukraine, he received such a bitter blow...

Shashlik and vacation happiness. Luhansk journal

06/23/2017 17:10 1469

My friends went to the Crimea for 36 hours. And then back just as much…ou can hear now quiet often about what good times were earlier, when we got on the Luhansk-Simferopol train and were in the Crimea the next day at lunch. And we were still dissatisfied with something at that time – it was long, hot and hard…

"The DPR is absolutely inviable in its current format". Review of the separatist media

06/18/2017 22:24 1741

This is not just insanity — it is an outright betrayal when they make two separate ugly formations that, according to the will of the "elite" will soon be perceived by each other worse than Ukraine. The merging of the two territories with the reformatting of these "elites" is the impulse for development and a way to revive the dying spirit of the Donbass...

Business in a new way, or How aggressor loses assets in Ukraine

06/14/2017 23:33 2387

It is one thing, when the Russian assets are officially nationalized in Ukraine, i.e. become the governmental property, by a court decision to compensate for the actual damage. It is quite another matter, when they are just forced to be sold to some financial industrial groups which have the opportunity to act with the help of institutions at greatly reduced prices...

Yehor Firsov: "We are in favor of elite change"

06/13/2017 22:43 1960

Ukraine has such a situation when the Ukrainian parties mainly work for the electorate of the western and central oblasts, as they see them more promising for themselves, while in the southern and eastern oblasts, where it is most necessary to raise people's awareness and fight against anti-Ukrainian sentiments, they work residually...

Listening to the radio... Luhansk journal

06/09/2017 09:35 1595

Yesterday I was not depressed, but while listening to the music collection of Radio of the Republic I had a feeling that either we live somehow very well and this happiness misses me, or the target audience are people of a certain level of intelligence...

Ukraine disconnects its territories in order to continue free water supply to the "LPR"

06/07/2017 22:28 1762

Following the Ukrainian electricity, the residents of the occupied territories lost even water. However, unlike with electricity which was provided by Russia to the "LPR", there are no alternative for water supply in the uncontrolled territories: either water from Ukraine or drought...

"Everything we had, almost all of our military resource, we handed over under Russia’s control". Review of the separatist media

06/06/2017 12:42 1645

There was the arrival of the US Secretary of State then — and all was qualitatively changed: preparing for activation was scrapped from top to bottom. Ukraine has increased the military pressure, causing the growth of popular discontent by the war and the lack of prospects for its completion...

The "DPR": appreciation of the project for the Russian Federation

06/01/2017 19:23 1800

Much will depend on the future scenario for the Russian economy – will its performance worsen or not. Now it has stabilized. If the fall resumes, then the Kremlin, willy-nilly, will consider leaving the "Donbass Russian Spring" project...

On the brink of disaster: part of the Donbass territories can become unsuitable for life within 5-10 years

05/29/2017 15:27 1931

It is difficult to reclamate the soil after salinization. The water table will decrease with the restoration of the mines' drainage, but the process of soil remediation will be long and expensive. Unfortunately, salinization can become irreversible because of the economic inexpediency of reclamation works. It is still possible to minimize the damage to the natural environment of the Donbass, but, if we lose time, many of the negative processes taking place there now can become irreversible...

Letter from Makiivka: hard times on May holidays

05/26/2017 23:11 1815

All miners are on unpaid vacation for the whole May. Coal mining is stopped. Both coke plants are idleness. On May 12, the metallurgical plant carried out a miserable trial order after more than two months of downtime...

New mythology of Donbass. How the "republics" in the east of Ukraine create "the people of Donbass"

05/26/2017 23:09 2178

The population of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts — both uncontrolled by Kyiv and "temporarily occupied by Ukraine" is called "the people of Donbass" in the "republican" media...

This painful choice... Luhansk journal

05/23/2017 14:57 1602

My neighbor serves in the SBU in the Ukrainian city nearest to Luhansk. Everyone knows on the street that he works there until retirement in order to return then with pension here, to the family, to his house and to live not in a hostel and on the refectory food, but at home, in his own house. And you think it is some kind of secret?

In the cellar of the Donetsk SBU. Volunteers tell about Ilovaisk and captivity

05/18/2017 17:18 2351

We were brought there to load the garbage. Russian journalists ran to us and began filming, people cried: look what you have done! We, as prisoners of war, did not have the right to resent or say anything, but I quietly said to the woman nearby: "I'm sorry, but we stood on the other side, the opposite, and such a trajectory is not realistic at all". She replied me quietly: "It is necessary"...

The last Poroshenko’s cleansing

05/18/2017 12:39 2581

In case of success in neutralizing the next fellow oligarchs, the chances of P.Poroshenko to win in the presidential and parliamentary elections of 2019 increase sharply, since opponents who are deprived of economic power cannot effectively resist the head of state and his associates from the "Family-2"...

"There is a schizophrenic situation in the Donbass". Russian media about Ukraine

05/12/2017 11:40 2289

We must remember once and for all: the fact that people in the DPR and LPR do not die of hunger and sometimes even tolerably exist is the merit of Russia. But Russian aid has limits, into which it bumps (or has already bumped), there are limitations...

"The territory of the self-proclaimed republics can become simply inviable". Russian media about Ukraine

05/06/2017 23:36 2918

Rescuers died even in self-contained atmospheric protection equipment which simply did not keep this infection! Such a toxic cocktail of substances was there. It was shut out to the maximum at that time, it was reported only about the death of 10 miners and 4 rescuers...

Strange blockade...

05/06/2017 15:56 2188

The fact that sulfur content is not higher than 1.5% in the tender for the purchase of coal, announced recently by PJSC Centrenergo state company.However, according to the experts, a coincidence is out of the question: the conditions are specially prescribed for the purchase of anthracite coal from the uncontrolled territories, which have such characteristics.

The "LPR" is on electricity aspiration from Russia. Causes and effects

04/28/2017 23:14 1834

This is purely political pressure on the militants in order to return the "status quo" and hand over the grabbed enterprises to the Ukrainian oligarchs-owners. Tuka correctly says: when the enterprises were Ukrainian by registration, Ukraine could pretend that it does not see where its money goes and actually pay to the militants...

"Do you think the local "army" is bread and butter?". Luhansk journal

04/28/2017 09:32 1734

A man in the right mind will not go to the local military registration and enlistment office because he feel bored or because of any other motives in his life. People went in 2014 when there were ideas and zeal. Now, with the knowledge of how the system works, no one will change his freedom and time for $270 without rhyme or reason...

"Bosnian scenario for the Donbass". Russian mass media about Ukraine

04/28/2017 09:31 2940

He is on the international wanted list. But Makaryev does not hide. He participates in public events, gives interviews in Donbass. Two months ago, together with the head of the self-proclaimed "Luhansk People's Republic" Igor Plotnitsky, Makaryev cut the ribbon, opening the sports hall of martial arts in Luhansk. Georgiy Makaryev was introduced as the commander of the People's Army of Donbass non-governmental organization...

"What is hidden behind a frightened look?"

04/25/2017 11:45 2249

The story-winner of "People and War" contest of short video stories is the top among citizen journalists. The contest was held within the framework of "StoryMaker: a School of citizen journalism" project, with the partnership of OstroV website...

"Ukrainians ask us for money for a return ticket". Russian media about Ukraine

04/23/2017 15:56 2347

The well-known hear commander Yura "Machete" returns to his unit in Debaltseve. "It is quite here for now, there is a truce, but it will definitely begin in a couple of weeks. Do not listen to the cannonade near Mariupol. Nothing usually happens afterwards there where it is loud

Poroshenko VS Firtash and Kolomoiskyi: the outcome is getting closer

04/23/2017 15:55 2172

Then I.Kolomoiskyi becomes a persona non grata in Ukraine: he is called in for questioning, put on the wanted list and, if he appears in the country, he is subject to arrest...

Before the very end: fear without hatred and epidemic loneliness of the "republican" old people. A day in Stanytsia Luhanska

04/15/2017 00:20 1688

Grandmother comes and asks scotch tape or rope of us. It turned out that she tied round herself with fat like Shakhid with explosive and went "there". It is possible to understand her, we have fat at $0.7 and they have it at $1,8. The same is with vegetables. They get themselves out as best they can. If she is off the hook – will get a double gain...

"We are uncompetitive..." The latest trends in the "people's republics"

04/13/2017 16:08 1725

If a person speaks, (s)he necessarily blurts out not only what (s)he wants to say, but also what is really there. Therefore, in order to understand what was recently happening in the occupied territories of Donbass, it is enough to listen carefully, to observe and compare with what had been said and done before...

Not the worst times for Akhmetov…

04/13/2017 13:16 1914

This is an opportunity for the state to keep its front going officially – it is simply cannot "forgive" a large amount to the debtor. This scheme is even more advantageous is for SCM...

LGBT in occupation. Why do the "republics" try to get into someone else's bed?

04/08/2017 22:59 2424

LGBT topic is also actively used in the "republics" in a hybrid war against Ukraine, in particular, as an object for blackmailing those they use in this war. A scandal broke out in the "DPR" in February 2016, when two militants of Oplot were caught at the moment of intimacy...

"There is not a single Russian left – they all were killed". Review of the separatist media

04/06/2017 15:05 2271

They tell people here mainly about Kyiv and Ukraine's territories controlled by the Ukrainian government. Sometimes they blame the Russian opposition and the leaders of Western countries. But some interesting allusions and tendencies can still be traced...

How much does a free lunch cost? The program of "assistance to compatriots" from the "DPR-LPR"

03/31/2017 21:17 1764

Broke “DPR-LPR”, totally dependent on Russia, announced the launch of the Program of assistance to compatriots living in the free territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. It can seem funny, but not for those who swallowed the bait and are ready go to the occupied territory through checkpoints and long queues...

The fire at the ammunition depot: neither compensation nor guilty

03/30/2017 17:46 2146

The fact that the town suffered from Ukrainian weapons, resembling the places of the most desperate battles, and that the native state just turned away from it, became a terrible disappointment for the locals...

"There will be Bakhmut Sich": trade blockade as it is

03/29/2017 16:27 2000

All-pervading hatred of the government by people is in all areas of public life… Now we are on the verge of an explosion. And if this will not be done, if the patriots will not lead or at least not affect it, this will be done by Putin. And this is much more terrible than a new military aggression…

The "DPP-LPR" integration into Russia. Reality or propaganda?

03/26/2017 23:17 1783

Well, really, Russia invested huge funds in creating a hotbed of tension in Ukraine that would weaken the country and allow Moscow to influence it. Do you really think that having created such a military machine, the Kremlin will deprive itself of the opportunity to use it? After all, now allegedly the "DPR-LPR" are fighting, and in case of annexation, Russia will be at war. This would mean other sanctions and other political responsibility...

"Classical scheme of ghetto formation". Is there an alternative to modular camps for IDPs?

03/24/2017 22:19 2033

People involved in projects on assistance to internally displaced persons observe the decrease in activity of international donors because of the passivity of the Ukrainian authorities themselves with the key problems of IDPs, who stay on the sidelines of politics for all three years of the conflict continuation. The authorities, both central and local, prefer just to take a back seat...

Luhansk journal. Who lives well in the "LPR"

03/23/2017 11:31 1847

"I was born here, and I will die here". And there are lots of such people who do not see their life anywhere except their land. I would not have understood it before. If the situation is bad - run, sell, leave, look for a better life...

Serhiy Zuev: "Refusal of Russian coal showed economic expediency"

03/23/2017 10:28 1994

The formula "Rotterdam +" is economically unviable at all: well, it is like if you brought potatoes from your vegetable garden to the market, and say: I will not sell it for 5 hryvnias, I want the price it is traded on the New York Stock Exchange…

Banks vs displaced persons: who is (non-)resident to whom?

03/18/2017 13:50 1823

The displaced persons, regardless of whether they are from the Donbass or Crimea, can be discriminated at any moment and in any bank. The bank may demand confirmation of the fact of residence on the controlled territory of Ukraine. We know it from practical experience. At the same time, the law does not establish and does not intend any list of documents by which this can be confirmed...

Luhansk journal. Food sentiment

03/15/2017 13:01 1698

Bellyful gives a sense of well-being. When you open the refrigerator and see the food reserves for at least a few days, it becomes warm and comfortable...

"Now they are holding legal proceedings". Ihor Kozlovsky's nephew tells about the circumstances of the scientist's detention in Donetsk

03/15/2017 12:18 1725

It is all at the level of conversations. We did not see any signed documents. Allegedly, the "investigation" accuses him of storing two grenades...

"The Kremlin has only two options... The second one is to annex the Donbass". Russian mass media about Ukraine

03/11/2017 00:01 2187

Donbass clearly shows what happens if the authorities allow the "privatization" of the economy by the oligarchs' clans. History itself has made an extremely harsh experiment in which the most unfavorable conditions are set. The war only highlights the main things. Oligarchic and privatized by a few people economy is not viable. This is a verdict to the system that Ukraine has built

How Kuban Cossacks organized the "Ukrainian Spring" in Russia

03/09/2017 11:07 2933

People in Russia, which generously endows its neighbors with the puppet "people's republics" in the contemporary world, do not like to remember how an independent, unwilling to be the part of a "united and indivisible" state was created on their territory a hundred years ago...

"Nationalization" in the "LPR-DPR". Secret meaning of the main events of the past week

03/07/2017 16:23 1687

The leader of the DPR practically let out Moscow's secret plan! Since the enterprises are now managed by "the State Administrations" – arrangements with them actually mean the recognition of puppet republics by Kyiv!

False hopes, or Does Russia need the seized enterprises of the "DPR"?

03/07/2017 16:15 1999

Each and every metallurgical group in the Russian Federation has its own capacities for the production of coke and even exports it.

So it turns out that the expropriation of the largest industrial enterprises of the Donbass will lead to their ultimate degradation. And it will in any case be the only real result of the current PR action.

Bargaining or building castles in the air? How oligarchs offer to resolve the conflict in the Donbass

03/03/2017 14:54 1894

Ukrainian oligarchs suffer from the war in the Donbass in their own way – constantly living in safe Geneva, London and Vienna. They do not know what is to hide under fire in cellars for months, to leave your own home forever and go, in fact, to nowhere, to lose your near and dear ones from the explosion of a mine or a stray bullet. However, oligarchs suffer financial losses from this officially unrecognized war - and money for them is always in the first place.

Pensions of discord: (not) to pay the residents of the occupied Donbass?

03/03/2017 11:06 2150

In August 2014, the offices of the Pension Fund ceased to operate on the occupied territory. A person has the right to get this entire amount paid in full for all the period this person has not received payment. The money is still there. It is a property of a person. Therefore, it is a lie when we are reproached that we have deprived people of payments. The right to receive payments is still there

Analytic video overview of the situation in the occupied Donbass in connection with the blockade

02/28/2017 14:13 1782

Myths and realities about the economy of the occupied part of the Donbass and blockade. Is the blockade profitable for Ukraine, and what might be the consequences for the "DPR-LPR"?

"You have underliberated us". A typical story of a Donbass town

02/24/2017 10:02 2418

The person who delivered weapons from Sloviansk to Druzhkivka and worked in the Commandant's Headquarters of Druzhkivka has entered the list of "Solidarity". He still "votes" in the online surveys on his page on Odnoklassniki for the "Russian" Crimea, "mandatory" "trial of the junta" and a map where the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine are painted in the colors of the Russian flag

The Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih republic: a fall without a rise

02/20/2017 11:23 1844

So, this is how an unnecessary idea of regional separatism was buried 98 years ago. It is difficult to assume that people will remember about this sad anniversary in the occupied Donetsk. And in vain - the fate of the present "DPR" is very similar to the DKR republic's. Most likely, it will end in the same way - with a stroke of the Kremlin ruler’s pen: "To carry out the destruction..."

"The DPR will not be able to become the center of the world LGBT movement". Separatist "media" review

02/20/2017 11:20 1580

Separatist "media" quickly forgot about Givi’s death. Epitaphs and his "heroic deeds" were replaced by reports that remind of The X-Files series. Ukrainian immortal cyborgs, cancer caused by war and LGBT activists in the "DPR" – these topics were highlighted by the local "media".

Corruption in Ukraine: a fight or an imitation?

02/17/2017 15:41 1744

The major case investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office Yuriy Kryvobok has specified the greatest amount by prosecutors - $ 2.612 million, while the Deputy Head of the Prosecutor General's Office Anatolii Matios GPU has $ 1.715 million. Y.Lutsenko himself has "modest" $ 804 thousand

Special again! Another Akhmet-sarai being built in Donbass?

02/17/2017 15:39 1566

The Donbass, in the understanding of the local people in power, is still not the part of the country, but their territory, where "foreigners" should not go. It is no coincidence that the "Kiev" Governor Zhebrivskyi sits in Kramatorsk and the Donetsk police are based in Mariupol where the local authorities and large industrial enterprises are controlled by Akhmetov...

Georgia and its three wars. Victories and defeats of Mikheil Saakashvil

02/13/2017 12:24 3264

People who do not have the documents, go to the back door, – Heorhiy explains. – Sometimes they are caught. Written out a fine. If you run away, they will catch up and, of course, hurt you a little bit". "The guys went to Zugdidi, bought the clothes for themselves, and now they are waiting for the darkness, – he points at the guys staying on the sidelines. – What to do if the documents are not given?

Georgia and its three wars. How "the genie was let out of the bottle"

02/10/2017 11:42 3318

I returned to Georgia on the night of April 9-10, 1989, when there were mass protests with the victims in Tbilisi, - he says. - I did not even realize where I arrived. The state was falling apart. There were some movements in Tskhinvali too... I think that our extreme nationalism failed us, both the Georgian side and the Ossetian side. Any discussion on a national basis was regarded as opposition, and the government, as we have seen, was already very weak and It did not interfere with it. The genie was let out of the bottle