Tag: Ukraine

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Volodymyr Verbyany – April 11, 2014) If they can do it in Kiev, we can do it in Donetsk. That’s what Roman Romanenko says as he organizes the occupation of this eastern Ukrainian city’s seat of government, which he and hundreds like him seized to protest Kiev’s new leadership. Clad in fatigues and a blue beret, […]

VLADIVOSTOK, April 11 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has not been involved in recent protests in southeastern Ukraine and always respects its neighbor’s territorial integrity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. “We are being accused that we have some kind of special agents there. There aren’t any. We don’t have any troops there either. We have no military personnel there […]

BRUSSELS. April 9 (Interfax) – The Ukrainian crisis is caused by two factors – internal and foreign, Russian ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov believes. “Unfortunately, during the relatively short history of Ukrainian independence – 23 years – the Ukrainian people did not have leaders that it deserved. Actually all four presidents that were in power one after the […]

KYIV. April 9 (Interfax) – A person who took part in the winter protests in Kyiv’s Independence Square (Maidan) was hospitalized and died in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry press service reported on Wednesday. “As of 6:00 a.m. on April 9, 2014, 11 people sought medical assistance in the past 24 hours. Six of those people were […]

Subject: Response to Shenfield (JRL#77) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 From: Sergei Roy <sergeiroy@yandex.ru> First, I would like to thank all the nice people who have written to me to say all those nice words about my tour d’horizon “Ukraine: Triumph, Tragedy, or Farce?” – a comparison of certain features of the anti-Communist, anti-Soviet, democratic revolution of 1991 and of […]

Subject: Ukraine: a change of view on the change of regime Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 From: Stephen D. Shenfield <sshenfield@verizon.net> In my paper ‘Ukraine: popular uprising or fascist coup?’ (JRL 2014-#75-76, April 4-5) I concluded that right radicals played a ‘crucial role’ in the change of regime in Kiev. Since then I have reconsidered this view in light of […]

KYIV. April 9 (Interfax) – Serhiy Tihipko, a Ukrainian presidential candidate, said he has managed to get into the building of the Ukrainian Security Service’s department in the Luhansk region and talk to the people who have occupied it. “All information that there are some Russians there is false,” Tihipko told a briefing in the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday. Tihipko […]

MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) – Russia does not recognize the legitimacy of Ukraine’s new authorities but continues its economic assistance to its crisis-hit neighbor, a situation that will not last forever, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. “As you know, our partners in Europe recognize the legitimacy of the current Kiev authorities, but are doing nothing in order to […]

(Interfax – April 8, 2014) Claims that Russia is financing massive protests in southeastern Ukraine should be left on the American partners’ conscience, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. “Concerning who financed what in this situation, a rather large amount of information has leaked through, is available and has never been denied by anyone. These payments are connected with the […]