Tag: Minsk

Ukraine Live Day 358: Debaltsevo Cut Off From Highway

February 10, 2015

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Despite Public Displays Of Piety, ‘Orthodox Atheism’ Spreading In Russia

January 16, 2015

Staunton, January 7 – Despite Vladimir Putin’s very public invocation of religion and his tight embrace of Patriarch Kirill, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church has fallen over the last year, the result of government policies which could be called “covert secularization” and the spread of the notion of “Orthodox atheism,” according to Boris […]

Ukraine Live Day 312: Minsk Peace Talks Cancelled, Ukraine Cuts Power and Trains to Crimea

December 26, 2014

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Are Russia’s Federal Subject Heads To Become Governors General?

Staunton, December 22 – Vladimir Putin has agreed with proposals by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to require the heads of the federal subjects to bear responsibility for mobilization and fighting against diversionary forces, a step that makes them into something like tsarist-era governors general and could presage a new territorial delimitation of the country. At […]

Belarusian Nationalism Emerges As a Political Force

Staunton, December 22 — Belarusian nationalists over the last year “not only have come out of ‘the political ghetto’ into which they have been since the end of the 1990s but also have become an influential political force” in Minsk, indeed a force that even Alyaksandr Lukashenka has had to take into consideration and play […]

Putin Making Belarus Into Base For Attacking Kyiv, Minsk Analyst Says

December 16, 2014

Staunton, December 15 – Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a “reduction” that is at least in part a disinformation campaign, Putin is making Belarus into a base for attacking Kyiv. The appearance of more Russian “little green men” in Gomel last week prompted some Ukrainians to ask […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 242: Poroshenko And Putin Talk In Milan

October 17, 2014

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Belarus Has a Name and It Isn’t Belorussia, Russian Court Told

September 2, 2014

Staunton, August 31 – A man from the Belarusian city of Bobruisk has filed suit in a Moscow court against three Russian news agencies seeking compensation for their use of the word ‘Belorussiya’ instead of ‘Belarus’ as the name of his country, something he says has damaged his honor and dignity. “I am a citizen […]

Ukraine Liveblog Day 191: Fighting In Ilovaisk, Amvrosievka and Novoazovsk

August 27, 2014

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Ukraine Liveblog Day 190: Russian Paratroopers Captured In Ukraine

August 26, 2014

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