Section: News & Summaries
Twitter banned hundreds of Ukrainian users because of fake reports made by Russian bots
On December 29, 2015, Twitter began mass block of its users with active pro Ukrainian position who have thousands of followers. The reason was the mass appeals of Russian bots that used the changes to the rules of Twitter. For several days it was blocked several hundreds of Ukrainian accounts in this social network. Among them, many popular with...
The Complex History of the Ukrainian Nation: A Review of “The Gates of Europe”
During a time of war, history becomes a weapon used to justify claims and raise soldiers’ spirits. In this case, successful histories are simple, unequivocal, and confirmed by the experiences of past centuries.The current Kremlin version of history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine fully meets these criteria. According to...
Avalanche hits school group, 3 dead
An avalanche killed at least three people when it swept into skiers on a closed slope in the French Alps, the interior ministry said. ||| Lyon – An avalanche killed at least three people and seriously injured others when it swept into skiers, including a group of schoolchildren, on a closed slope in the French Alps on Wednesday, the...
New Poll Confirms Growing Mistrust Between Donbas Residents and Kyiv
Ukrainians elected more than 10,000 mayors and 160,000 city councilmembers in local elections on October 25. It was the third nationwide election since the Euromaidan Revolution. A new International Republican Institute (IRI) poll of the Ukrainian-controlled territories of the Donbas region (i.e., Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts) reveals that only 26...
Free the Kremlin’s 20 Ukrainian Hostages Now
Soviet dissident Vasyl Stus—an important Ukrainian poet of the 20th century—never lived to see the fall of the Soviet Union. He died in a prison camp near Perm in 1985.As I read one of Stus’s poems about Siberia, I realized that Gennadiy Afanasyev, a 25-year-old Crimean photographer exiled to the Sytkyvkar penal camp in Russia’s Komi...
The Real History of the Ukrainian Nation: A Review of “The Gates of Europe”
During a time of war, history becomes a weapon used to justify claims and raise soldiers’ spirits. In this case, successful histories are simple, unequivocal, and confirmed by the experiences of past centuries.The current Kremlin version of history of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine fully meets these criteria. According to...
Ukraine Should Do More to Combat Human Trafficking
Ukraine remains one of Europe’s most notorious sources of human trafficking. Since 1991, over 160,000 men, women, and children have been exploited for labor, sex, forced begging, and organ removal, according to a mid-2015 report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, with...
2016 Will Be a Make It or Break It Year for Ukraine
Two years ago, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians braved the freezing temperatures on Kyiv’s Maidan to protest. Since then, Ukraine has gone through almost too many crises to count: upheaval with the ousting of former President Viktor Yanukovych; Russian occupation of Crimea; a war with Russian forces in the Donbas that continues to...
Putin ‘didn’t mean to scare Merkel’
President Vladimir Putin said that he did not mean to scare German Chancellor Angela Merkel with his dog at a meeting in 2007. ||| Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday that he did not mean to scare German Chancellor Angela Merkel with his dog at a meeting in 2007.Merkel is rumoured to have a...
Russia ‘wants global action on terrorism’
Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said. ||| Moscow – Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it....