Tag: Ukraine

KYIV. April 8 (Interfax) – Only official representatives can take part in the international negotiations over the situation in Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said. “First of all, these should be talks among official representatives of Ukraine, Russia, as well as the European Union and the United States,” Perebyinis told reporters on Tuesday. The Ukrainian government repeatedly expressed […]

DONETSK, April 8 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian law enforcement agents continued talks with protesters occupying several government buildings in the eastern city of Donetsk on Tuesday, officials said. “Exhaustive measures are currently being taken to hold a dialogue aimed at peacefully unblocking the seized administrative buildings in the city,” prosecutors said in a statement, citing the success of talks on […]

Subject: Russia’s confederal-disintegration, not federal, proposal for Ukraine Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 From: Ira Straus (IRASTRAUS@aol.com) Re Washington Post aticle “Kiev sees Russian federalization plans as attempt to destroy Ukraine.” I think it’s not just interesting but important. It says Ukrainians, by large polling majorities even in the East and South, reject Russia’s “federalization” proposal, and explains why it […]

MOSCOW. April 3 (Interfax) – Russia is currently not judging whether information that Berkut special task forces were involved in the shooting of people in Kyiv on February 20 is true or not, but says that such information contradict a lot of other evidence. “I can’t judge right now how grounded the statements [made in Kyiv on the investigation into […]

KYIV. April 4 (Interfax) – The results of a public opinion survey conducted by the GfK Ukraine company in March show that a relative majority of Ukrainian citizens support the change of power in the country. According to the poll results, 31% of respondents said they wholeheartedly supported the change of power in Kyiv in February, 18% would be likely […]

MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Defense Ministry published on its website Thursday secret documents revealing that Ukrainian ultranationalist Stepan Bandera, who is considered as a national hero by his supporters, was involved in atrocities against civilian population in western Ukraine during World War II. The classified documents which were previously known to just a few specialists include reports […]