By Sergei Kirichuk, Borotba (Struggle) political group, Oct 21, 2014 The negotiations in Milan in a sense completed a diplomatic cycle begun by the Minsk Agreement, heralding a weak de-escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. It became clear that Russian …
By Andrew Roth, New York Times, Oct 20, 2014 The following article published in the New York Times on Oct 20 was posted to the Globe and Mail online on Oct 21. The same day, the Toronto Star published a …
By Alexander Panin, The Moscow Times, Oct. 20 2014 As the Russian and Ukrainian Energy Ministers sit down with European Commission chaperones to resolve their intractable natural gas dispute on Tuesday, the ball will be in the EU’s court, which …
RIA Novosti, October 18 NOVOAZOVSK – The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) plan to nationalize distilleries, DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said Saturday. “Distilleries will be placed under the government’s control,” Zakharchenko said at a meeting with …
KIEV, October 19 (RIA Novosti) — Refugees from the conflict-torn Donbas region are holding a demonstration in front of the Ukrainian government’s building in Kiev, demanding social assistance, the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine reported Sunday. According to the newspaper, protesters …
By Robert Parry, Consortium News, Oct 20, 2014 The West’s case blaming Russia for the shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last July appears to be crumbling as the German foreign intelligence agency has concluded that the anti-aircraft missile battery …
RT.com, Oct 20, 2014 A huge blast has rocked a chemical factory in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the city council says on its website. The blast wave reportedly shattered windows in houses in a radius of several kilometers. The explosion …
The hatreds left by Nazi and Soviet occupations 70 and 80 years ago continue to play out on Ukraine’s streets and battlefields. By Anna Nemtsova, The Daily Beast, Oct 17, 2014 LVIV, Ukraine — Ostap Stakhiv, the leader of a …
Socialists rooted in the struggle Review by James Daugherty, in Socialist Worker, October 16, 2014. Reviewing: In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States, by Kim Moody, Haymarket Books, 2014, 326 pages, $22. SOCIALISTS AND left-wingers in the …
Russia, Ukraine agree on gas price at $385 per 1,000 cu m for winter ITAR-TASS, Oct 17, 2014 MILAN — Russia and Ukraine have agreed that the gas price for the winter will total $385 per 1,000 cubic meters, and …