Section: News & Summaries

      More than 500 documents tied to MH17 disaster are released by Dutch Government
      Apr12

      More than 500 documents tied to MH17 disaster are released by Dutch Government

      The Dutch government has published the 575 documents regarding the flight MH17 which flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and was downed near the city Donetsk in Ukraine. All 298 people aboard the plane were killed. Dutch release hundreds of #emails tied to #MH17 http://t.co/u3kpLrgH6m — NL Times (@NL_Times) April 8, 2015 According to Dick Schoof,...

      SBU detected several pro-Russian terrorists’ arms caches
      Apr12

      SBU detected several pro-Russian terrorists’ arms caches

      As reports the Press Center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) near Ukrainian city Zhytomyr in a wood was discovered a cache of arms and ammunition, camouflaged as the trash. The SBU officers discovered two RPG-22 grenade launchers, a Dragunov sniper rifle with full magazine, about forty RGD-5 and F-1 grenades, three full Kalashnikov...

      Canada to send troops to Ukraine in “non-combat role”
      Apr11

      Canada to send troops to Ukraine in “non-combat role”

      According to a government source, Canada will send its troops to Ukraine in the coming months. As it is underlined Canadian soldiers will not be engaged in military operations. This was reported by Canadian Media Channel CTV News: Canada to send troops to Ukraine in non-combat role http://t.co/l7HMukOiER — Mercedes Stephenson (@CTVMercedes)...

      US Senator Rob Portman declares he will personally fight for military assistance to Ukraine
      Apr10

      US Senator Rob Portman declares he will personally fight for military assistance to Ukraine

      “I will personally fight for this military assistance,” said Senator Rob Portman during the press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center at April, 9. Senator Portman expressed his support for the initiative to extend sanctions aimed at countering the Russian aggression in Ukraine, which is going to be reviewed by the end of June – early July....

      How the KGB archives will be opened and information declassified
      Apr10

      How the KGB archives will be opened and information declassified

      On April 9, 2015, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) approved a government bill No. 2540 opening up access to the archives of repressive bodies of the Soviet Union totalitarian regime of 1917-1991. Materials will be published not only on the requests of concerned citizens, but the responsibilities of the Institute of National...

      Poroshenko Goes Hunting for Oligarchs
      Apr09

      Poroshenko Goes Hunting for Oligarchs

      Ukraine won an important battle in the war against the oligarchs with the removal of Dnipropetrovsk Governor Ihor Kolomoyskyi last week. But Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian parliament are just getting started. On April 7 the government challenged billionaire Rinat Akhmetov’s grip on energy companies. Some...

      Can Gazprom Really Cut Out Ukrainian Transit Post-South Stream?
      Apr09

      Can Gazprom Really Cut Out Ukrainian Transit Post-South Stream?

      Despite an unceremonious end to the controversial South Stream mega-pipeline, Russia remains outspoken and determined in its effort to carve Ukraine entirely out of its European natural gas deliveries which accounted for 62 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Gazprom’s European-bound exports in 2014. Formally announced in 2007, South Stream had...

      Parliament recognized  UPA and UNR as fighters for independence of Ukraine
      Apr09

      Parliament recognized UPA and UNR as fighters for independence of Ukraine

      On April 09, 2015, Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) passed a law of recognizing organizations that fought for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century such as UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) and UNR (Ukrainian People’s Republic), the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS), Hetmanate (Ukrainian State),...

      KGB archives of 1917-1991 will be in open access
      Apr09

      KGB archives of 1917-1991 will be in open access

      On April 9, 2015, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament) approved a government bill No. 2540 opening up access to the archives of repressive bodies of the Soviet Union totalitarian regime of 1917-1991. The archives of all repressive organizations such as KGB, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and...

      ‘Fighting might resume in Ukraine’

      A Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader has accused Kiev of “totally ignoring” the terms of a peace deal and warned that fighting might resume. ||| Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko accused the Kiev government of “totally ignoring” the terms of a peace deal and warned in an interview with AFP that fighting might...