Tag: Lugansk People’s Republic

Ukraine Liveblog Day 219: Nadezhda Savchenko Moved From Voronezh To Moscow

September 24, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 215: Ukraine and Russian-backed Separatists Reach DMZ Agreement

September 20, 2014

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Moscow Views Donetsk and Luhansk as Surety Against Ukraine Joining NATO, Lukin Says

August 31, 2014

Staunton, August 31 – Vladimir Lukin, former Russian ambassador to the United States and human rights ombudsman, says that Vladimir Putin will use the amount of force necessary in eastern Ukraine to convince Kyiv that it cannot win and use the ensuing federalization of Ukraine as a means of blocking that country’s joining NATO. Lukin […]

Ukraine LiveBlog Day 195: Assassination Attempt on Separatist Leader Zakharchenko

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Russia Lacks Resources for Occupation of Eastern Ukraine, Moscow Military Expert Says

August 29, 2014

Staunton, August 29 – The Russian military has the ability to seize Donetsk and Lugansk if no one provides assistance to Ukraine, Russian military affairs specialist Aleksandr Golts says, but he argues that Moscow “does not have the resources” it would need for “a full-scale occupation” of these and other Ukrainian regions. In an interview […]

Ukraine LiveBlog Day 193: Putin Appeals to ‘Militia of Novorossiya’

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 180: The Battle For Lugansk Begins

August 16, 2014

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Russia This Week: Zhirinovsky Threatens to ‘Wipe Out’ Poland, Baltics (4-10 August)

August 10, 2014

Updated Daily. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sprang two restrictive Internet decrees on providers and users this week, one requiring presentation of domestic passports to use public Internet cafes or wi-fi, and the other mandating operators of social media to collect more user data and make it available to Russian intelligence agencies. Mysteriously, a group calling […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 160: The Battle For The Donbass Intensifies

July 27, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 157: Fighting Continues in Donetsk

July 24, 2014

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