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Roman Burko: "Luhanks's militants carry out their shelling in and around the city in order to be able to blame the Ukrainian forces for the destruction and the deaths of civilians. In this way they try to convince local residents and their TV and news audiences of the crimes being committed…

On September 26, Johnny Talbot and Adrian Runhof showed their new spring/summer 2015 collection at Paris Fashion Week with a clear statement – Putin is an unwelcome threat.

A year ago, Ukraine was about as exciting as Uzbekistan. Now, it’s a market driver. The Market Vectors Russia exchange traded fund (RSX) is on its way to the teens unless rivals Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, can hug it out mighty quick. Seeing how this is an unlikely…

Roman was a student of the Carpathian University in the psychology department, Aleksej Gerasimow reports on his FB. Roman was shot in a temple by a sniper on February 20 on vul. Instytutska when, armed only with a metal shield, he was in the front line figthing for a better tomorrow for his…

Yuriy Butusov: "The young man on the right is one of Ukraine's many heroes. His name Olekisy Tyshchuk, a fighter with the 93rd mechanized brigade, which was defending Donetsk Airport. On the left is his mother, Dnipropetrovsk appeals court judge Iryna Tyshchuk. She never tried to get her son out…

The same day in February that forces loyal to Vladimir Putin swept into Crimea, drawing international outrage that has since isolated Russia and diminished the ruble, China's yuan surpassed the Swiss franc as the seventh most-used currency in the world.

Ukrainian roofer Mustang sold one of the athletic shoes he was wearing when he painted blue and yellow a star on the Moscow high-rise building on the Independence Day of Ukraine.

Senior lieutenant Zakhar Timin died in Eastern Ukraine on August 13, 2014. Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta finally managed to find his wife Irina.

NSC News & Analysis Center briefing highlights for October 1, 2014 on the latest updates from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. Summarized by EMPR. 

Odesa, 19 February 2014 – peaceful activists rallying against killings at Maidan were severely beaten by dozens of ‘titushky’ wearing black outfit and helmets and equipped with clubs near the Odesa State Administration. Beating is believed to be organized by Mykola Skoryk, who was the governor of Odesa Oblast and member…

25-year-old Edem Asanov went to work on September 29 in Saki, but never actually got there. Nothing’s been heard from him since then.

NSC News & Analysis Center briefing highlights for September 30, 2014 on the latest updates from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. Summarized by EMPR.