Section: The Netherlands
Ukraine Arrests Journalist on Treason Charges for Calls to Boycott Mobilization
Screencap from a video by Ruslan Kotsaba on Youtube. Ukrainian journalist Ruslan Kotsaba called for boycotting the latest wave of military mobilization in Ukraine—and now faces treason charges. Is he really a traitor or was he simply exercising his right to free expression? The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested Kotsaba, a reporter for...
Crimean IT Industry Wilts Under Western Sanctions
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. For the last few months, Russia has been the target of Western economic sanctions over its involvement in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March of last year, has borne the brunt of the punishment. The banking industry came under fire first, with Visa and MasterCard...
Dutch join rapid reaction force, won’t send weapons to Ukraine
The Netherlands, Germany and Norway are taking the lead in setting up a rapid reaction force for Nato, the Telegraaf… …read more Source:...
Ministers deny knowing about threats to passenger planes over Ukraine
The Dutch government did not have any information about concrete threats to high flying passenger aircraft above eastern Ukraine, ministers… …read more Source:...
Dutch crash investigators head for Ukraine, looking for final pieces
A Dutch defence ministry team is going to the site of the MH17 plane disaster in eastern Ukraine on Monday… …read more Source:...
How #EuroMaidan and War with Russia Have Changed Ukraine’s Internet
Kyiv, Ukraine. 6th December 2014 — The battalion came to honor the memory of those killed during clashes with police. On the pavement the form of the oil lamps is the Emblem of Ukraine. — Kyiv residents welcomed the 12th Territorial Defense Battalion “Kiev”, who returned on rotation from the zone of the fighting with the pro-Russian separatist...
Pro-Russian Forces in Eastern Ukraine Apparently Fire on Another Civilian Vessel by Accident
A rebel fighter stands in front of a damaged pedestrian crossing in separatist-controlled Horlivka, Donetsk region. Photo by Petr Shelomovskiy from Demotix. A shelling attack in Eastern Ukraine hit a civilian bus driving near a Ukrainian army checkpoint and resulted in over a dozen casualties. Online, pro-Russian rebels boasted of hitting an...
Three MH17 victims still unidentified
Just three of the 298 people on board Malaysian Airways flight MH17, brought down by a missile over eastern Ukraine… …read more Source:...
What Do Twitter Users in Ukraine and Russia Say About Their Presidents? An Introduction
Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. This article is part of a citizen-media data-analysis project, a collaboration between RuNet Echo and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Explore the complete article series on the All the Presidents’ Tweets page. Both Ukraine and Russia have loomed large on the social-media radar in...
No reason to tell airlines about Ukraine airspace risks: ministers
There was no reason to warn airlines about safety issues in Ukrainian airspace in the days prior to the MH17… …read more Source:...
