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 …
The Moscow Times Oct. 17 2014 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law granting three-year limited self-rule status to certain territories in the separatist-minded Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Two articles: Despite plunging ruble, sputtering economy, Russians still back Putin By Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 17 2014 MOSCOW — He’s a villain in the eyes of the West, targeted by economic sanctions and rhetoric comparing him …
The registration of seven newspapers and 11 magazines withdrawn for ‘advocating ‘separatism’ Korrespondent.net, Oct 16, 2014 (Google translation of Russian original) The State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine has withdrawn the certificate of state registration of seven …
By John-Paul Himka, published in April 2010 in Ab Imperio, Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space, posted on Academia.edu. What follows is the introduction to the four-article, 17-page compilation authored by John-Paul Himka, University of …