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[Ticker] Russian proposals left out of joint text on EU-Ukraine treaty
A joint EU-Russian-Ukrainian communique on the EU-Ukraine trade treaty has left out Russian proposals to amend the pact and to delay its implementation if Russia requests so after expert-level talks in July and August. EU commissioner De Gucht declined to say if Ukrainian implementation will be delayed until September, however. …read more...
Ukraine promises ‘retribution’ as at least 19 soldiers killed in rebel rocket attack
President Petro Poroshenko promises to wipe out “tens and hundreds” of pro-Russian insurgents in retribution for Grad missile attack near Russian border …read more Source: The...
VIDEO: Video ‘shows Ukraine bridge blown-up’
Amateur footage has emerged purporting to show the moment a Ukrainian bridge was blown-up. …read more Source:...
Rebels kill many troops in Ukraine border post attack
Rebels in eastern Ukraine have stepped up attacks on government forces to deadly effect. The Ukrainian military says 23 of its soldiers and border… …read more Source:...
Monkey kills six-week-old baby asleep in pushchair in Crimea
A baby has reportedly been killed by a monkey that escaped from a small private zoo in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. …read more Source: The...
Kiev Kowtows to Washington … on Twitter
Ukraine’s new foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, is in hot water on the Russian Internet today, where bloggers are drawing attention to his first subscriptions on Twitter. RuNet users have noticed that some of the first accounts Klimkin chose to follow are US politicians John McCain and Mitt Romney, the neoconservative American think tanks...
Russia’s Armchair Warrior Turns on Ukraine’s Rebel Leader
Russia’s armchair warrior? Sergei Kurginyan earns himself a meme on the Russian Internet. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock. Russian supporters of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine are panicking after rebels fled from their stronghold in Slovyansk last week. Igor Strelkov, the retired Russian military intelligence colonel who commands the...
Western Ukraine Police Using Facebook to Increase Police Accountability
According to a report [uk] by RFE/RL (Radio Free Europe), heads of district police departments in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv have been ordered to set up Facebook profiles. As of June 25, 2014, all of them can be found and contacted through the social network, which the Head of the Lviv Regional Department of the Ministry of Interior...
Ukrainian Rebels Worry that Putin Will Repeat Milošević’s Mistakes
Images remixed by Kevin Rothrock. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, several Western news outlets have highlighted comparisons between Putin and former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević. Both Putin and Milošević, the story goes, manufactured tensions in a neighboring country by accusing their enemies of fascism....
The Perils of the Lunar Putin
The Lunar Putin, a literal interpretation. Images mixed by author. Years ago, when I was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, I attended a roundtable discussion held on campus about the legacy of Stalinism. Like most things at Berkeley, the event was open to the public. After introductions and some brief remarks, audience members were invited to...
