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Ironhorse tanks сan’t stop ‘Ukraine Variable’ from hurting banks
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…
Oct 2, 2014
Today “Heaven’s Hundred” hero Roman Huryk would have been 20
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…
Oct 2, 2014
The Tyshchuks: two more victims of Putin’s madness
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…
Oct 2, 2014
Putin reserve rubles vanish in Crimea grab
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. It was…
Oct 1, 2014
Mustang’s athletic shoe was sold for 150K UAH
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.
Oct 1, 2014
He wasn’t a volunteer, he was a professional Russian soldier
Senior lieutenant Zakhar Timin died in Eastern Ukraine on August 13, 2014. Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta finally managed to find his wife Irina.
Oct 1, 2014
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing for October 1, 2014: highlights
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing highlights for October 1, 2014 on the latest updates from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. Summarized by EMPR. (1) Russian proxies continue to violate the ceasefire agreement by shelling ATO forces positions. The situation…
Oct 1, 2014
According to your deeds be it done to you
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…
Oct 1, 2014
One more Crimean Tatar missing in Crimea
One more Crimean Tatar missing in Crimea. 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. To remind: two Crimean Tatars Isliam Dzhepparov and Dzhevdet Isliamov…
Oct 1, 2014
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing for September 30, 2014: highlights
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing highlights for September 30, 2014 on the latest updates from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. Summarized by EMPR. (1) President Poroshenko discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and…
Sep 30, 2014
260 internally displaced people with special needs from Donbas stay in Odesa
260 internally displaced people from Donbas are staying in Speranza sanatorium in 80km from Odesa. Among them 120 epileptics and 90 children with ICP.
Sep 30, 2014
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing for September 29, 2014: highlights
NSC News & Analysis Center briefing highlights for September 29, 2014 on the latest updates from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. Summarized by EMPR. (1) Over the last 24 hours, an additional 30 Ukrainian servicemen were released from captivity: 27…
Sep 29, 2014