Tag: Russia

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – D. Garrison Golubock – May 19, 2014) A day after fighting broke out between pro-Russian separatists and forces loyal to the new Kiev government in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk, both sides in the ongoing standoff upped the stakes and called for new tactics: guerrilla warfare and female battalions, among other things. Pro-Russian separatists […]

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Diana Kulchitskaya – May 15, 2014) Having despoiled Crimea’s harvest, Ukraine’s water war with Russia may take more victims, with two major Crimean chemical plants near closure because of a water shortage, a Crimean official said Wednesday. The Krimsky Titan and Krimsky Sodoviy factories, which are situated in the northern part of Crimea, may soon […]

(Business New Europe – bne.eu – Crisis Group – May 15, 2014) Ukraine needs a government of national unity that reaches out to its own people and tackles the country’s long overdue reforms; both Russia and Western powers should back a vision for the country as a bridge between East and West, not a geopolitical battleground. In its latest report, Ukraine: […]

(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky, political analyst, special to RBTH – May 14, 2014) Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky is an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics. Russia’s lukewarm response to the results of the referendums on political independence in eastern Ukraine and its volte-face on the presidential elections scheduled for May 25 should be seen as […]

(Interfax – May 14, 2014) Approximately 68 percent of Ukrainians consider Russians a friendly people, while 22.8 percent said they do not, according to the findings of a poll conducted by the Razumkov Center said. Sixty-two percent of respondents see Russians as a fraternal nation; 28 percent have disagreed, according to the poll. The view that Russians are a friend […]