Ukraine in the world

The propaganda machine in the west is once again ramping up and spewing out one false claim after another about the shoot down of MH17 last year over eastern Ukraine and each story is more absurd than the one before it. On the 13th of August the British newspaper…

The Minsk-2 ceasefire agreement is dead but no one wants to bury the rotting corpse. Since it was signed in February of this year the Donbas governments and Russia have bent over backward to comply with the terms of that agreement hoping against hope that the Kiev junta…

It’s been a year of investigation into the tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, that was shot down over Ukraine en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur but there’s little details to discuss, instead we are being presented with unfounded politically…

The fact that neo-Nazis from the Right Sector took over the Lviv and set up ‘anti-smuggling’ control points on the road leading to the Ukrainian-Polish border crossings does not surprise me at all. After all, they have been trained for several…

It seems that this time, Ukraine finally enters on the way for ‘democracy’. A proof can be a declaration, in which Petro Poroshenko announced that he will prohibit wearing masks in a civil gatherings. Another surreal move proving that Ukraine is on its path to…

There is currently a lot of speculation on the situation on the line Kiev – Donbass. To learn what the situation really looks like, I asked for the firsthand insight. I am talking with David Hudziec, the Polish war correspondent residing the ninth month in…

Jeffrey Silverman, Georgian Bureau Chief for US Military Intelligence Journal Veterans Today, recently gave a guest lecture to a group of investigative journalism students at a private university in Tbilisi. Its initial…

I want to share my impressions from a recent visit to St. Petersburg where I was invited to speak on a panel titled “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste.” The title is another version of the old Chinese proverb, “A crisis also presents new opportunities.” This is…

Much has been written about Russia, its alleged annexation of Crimea and its alleged provocation of the ongoing separatist struggles in Eastern Ukraine. All those column inches form part of the longstanding demonisation of Russia which has led to economic…

The American-EU disaster brought upon poor Ukraine as a pseudo attack on Russia is not working out as planned. And neither did the Minsk agreement, which has been turned into an instrument of torture for the endlessly suffering Donbass people…

Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire…

The recent shelling of Donetsk and surrounding areas, carried out by Kiev’s military forces, has effectively ended the ceasefire and whatever illusions still remained of the Minsk 2 agreements. While there had been instances of violence before…