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Ukraine Live Day 429: Multiple Attacks on Ukrainian Positions Despite Withdrawal Agreement
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs 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. For links to individual […]
Ukraine Live Day 415: 2 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed, 4 Wounded Over Last 24 Hours
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The Uneasy Reality of Antifascism in Ukraine
First published in German language in Beton International: Zeitung für Literatur und Gesellschaft (10 March 2015). For almost twenty years of Ukraine’s independence, the term “antifascism” used to have very limited currency in the established political discourse in Ukraine. Until 2010, “antifascism” was primarily used as a form of self-identification by an element of Ukraine’s […]
Separatist Propagandist’s London Fundraiser, Linked To Pro-Kremlin Lobby Group, Cancelled
Graham Phillips, a British freelance video journalist who has been operating for most of the last year in eastern Ukraine, and produces propaganda videos for Russian state-owned media including RT and the Ministry of Defence-owned Zvezda channel, is now back in London. This morning it was announced that Phillips’ “fundraising event,” heralded with fanfare from the […]
Johnson’s Russia List Spreads Invented Story About Germany Preparing Sanctions Against Kiev
Johnson’s Russia List, or JRL, run by David Johnson, is a widely-read and influential email newsletter and website, also referred to as a listserv, which publishes a regular compilation of English-language news on Russia from a variety of sources. On February 10, an interesting article with a rather shocking headline was included on that day’s list: […]
Ukrainians’ Destruction Of Lenin Statues Making Him a Conservative Figure For Russians
Staunton, January 19 – Over the past year, Ukrainians have torn down more than 500 memorials to Vladimir Lenin, actions that reflect their revulsion at the Soviet past but ones that have had the unintended consequence of transforming Lenin into a conservative figure for many Russians and making the destruction of Lenin statues in their […]
Traditional Values Aren’t Eternal But Political Use of Them May Be, Russian Poetess Says
Staunton, January 14 – A return to “traditional values” is being promoted by the Russian leadership to reinforce public support, and demanded by some Russians for a variety of reasons; but in fact, such values “tested by time over many centuries which are now being propagandized in Russia simply don’t exist, according to Tatyana Shcherbina, […]
Russian Propaganda In Belarus Is Alienating Belarusians, Writer Warns
Staunton, January 14 – Moscow has unleashed a powerful wave of “black propaganda” against Belarus, often using Belarusians who now live in the Russian Federation to do it. But that effort, ostensibly designed to counter Western and Ukrainian propaganda, is alienating Belarusians and making cooperation between the two countries in the union state more difficult. […]
Ekho Moskvy Sets New, Restrictive Guidelines For Journalists
Russia’s well-regarded Ekho Moskvy radio station, which has long attempted to maintain political independence despite the increasingly hypoxic climate for dissenting media and pressure from shareholders (the station is owned by Gazprom-Media), has today, facing an acute crisis since last month when the station received a warning from Roskomnadzor (the Russian media regulator) and an intervention […]