Tag: Donetsk People’s Republic

Ukraine Liveblog Day 147: Ukrainian Forces Retake Several Villages Around Lugansk

July 14, 2014

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 143: Ukraine Prepares to Move on Donetsk

July 10, 2014

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]

Kremlin ‘Grey Cardinal’ Surkov’s Deal for a ‘Donetsk Transdniestria’?

July 9, 2014

Boris Rozhin, editor of Golos Sevastopolya and a popular blogger under the name “Colonel Cassad,” published a LiveJournal entry 7 July speculating on the origins of the campaign that has begun to discredit Col. Igor Strelkov, self-declared commander in chief of the “Donetsk People’s Republic.” He traces it to an attempt to orchestrate a scenario […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 142: Ukraine Condemns Illegal Rendition of Captured Officer to Russia

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]

Novorossiya Theory Meets Novorossiya Reality in Donetsk

July 8, 2014

A press conference in Donetsk today organized by Russian ultranationalist leftist Sergei Kurginyan, together with pro-Russian separatist fighters in southeast Ukraine turned into a shouting match as the fighters accused this Muscovite championing their cause, who has been finding them supposedly private channels of military aid, of being out of touch with their war and […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 141: Ukrainian Defence Minister – No More Unilateral Ceasefires

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 140: Shooting Returns to Maidan As Separatists Regroup in Donetsk

July 7, 2014

Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. Below […]

Russian Orthodox ‘Fundamentalists’ Radicalizing Secessionists in Ukraine

July 3, 2014

Staunton, July 3 – Russian Orthodox “fundamentalists” have formed their own armed units and provided both military and ideological support for pro-Moscow secessionists in eastern Ukraine. By so doing, they have radicalized opinion among the latter by calling for a “crusade” not just in the east but against all of Ukraine. In the issue of […]

Three Laws of Soviet Reality Again Operational Under Putin, Magarshak Says

June 30, 2014

Staunton, June 30 – Three unwritten laws which governed the lives of Soviet people have resumed operation in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and increasingly set the terms for the interaction between his country’s population and the state, and they are “just as universal and all-embracing,” a Russian blogger suggests,” as the laws of Newton. These three […]

Russian Army Won’t Be Ready to Intervene in Ukraine Before Mid-July, Felgengauer Says

June 27, 2014

Staunton, June 27 – The Russian military was ready to invade Ukraine in April but stopped short of doing so, Pavel Felgengauer, a leading independent military analyst in Moscow, says. Now it is not and probably won’t be until the middle of July at the earliest “regardless of what happens in Ukraine. Felgengauer’s comments came […]