Tag: resistance

Crimean Resistance to Giving Up Ukrainian Citizenship Seen Forcing Moscow to Make Concessions

July 13, 2014

Staunton, July 11 – Moscow’s Nezavisimaya Gazeta is reporting today that resistance among officials in Russian-occupied Crimea to giving up Ukrainian citizenship has led the Russian labor ministry to seek a delay until the beginning of next year of a requirement announced in April that all officials on the peninsula do so or lose their […]

Putin as a Fascist Leader Bears Total Responsibility for Crisis in Ukraine, Commentator Says

May 4, 2014

Staunton, May 4 – Had Vladimir Putin accepted the Maidan’s ouster of discredited Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and agreed to accept the results of the upcoming elections, nothing that has occurred in Ukraine since that time would have happened, according to a Ukrainian commentator. “Thousands of people would not have suddenly discovered in themselves an […]