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Konstantin Mashovets on the coastal defense in the occupied Crimea and gives a detailed analysis of land component of the Russian forces The key defense element of the Russian forces in Crimea is the 22nd Army Corps – a unit of the Coastal Troops of the Russian Navy. The corps and its headquarters are located and managed in the city […]

There are times when some men are cast in the role of Cassandra, the ancient Prophetess of Apollo in Troy who’s curse was that none would believe her. In 1930s Britain one such notable ‘Cassandra’ (among many) was Winston Churchill who’s continual warnings regarding the brutality and aggressive nature and the build up of military power of the Hitlerite regime – […]

Victor Shishkin, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, states that from the legal perspective Minsk agreements fake and wonder why foreigners talk about Minsk Agreements as an international agreement.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Analysis on causes and consequences of Russian current maneuvering, drafted by Valeriy Pekar, founder of Ukrainian civic organization Nova Kraina.

It is an interesting and much under researched fact that all nations have 'national myths'. In times of war these become particularly important: they become almost 'rocks of unity' around which all set aside previous disputes and make them a single people determined to resist.

After the collapse of the USSR Russia held a monopoly over the right to be called the victor over Nazism. Now is the time to tell the world the truth. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.

Today the world faces a deeply corrupt Russian state where state control of the media is almost total, where control of major financial and resource assets resides almost exclusively close 'friends' many of whom have have KGB or St Petersburg connections (or both) going some way back, where increasingly neo nationalism is encouraged by the State up to a form of cult worship of the new 'Great Leader', a state which is not concerned with any former international agreements it's predecessors may have the signed - the Budapest Memorandum, Helsinki Accords and even the United Nations founding charter are clearly regarded as non binding. A Russian state increasingly is hurtling back to it's past. So tell me: was the Cold War won?

At the conclusion of the second round of the Minsk talks the heads of Ukraine, Germany, France, and Russia agreed to a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Officially the ceasefire was to be in force from February 15, 2015. In truth, the military offensive in the Donbas had never been brought to a halt. Read EMPR exclusive report from the front lines about an illusory truce.

At the opening of the inquiry into the murder (in 2006) of former FSB Officer 'Sasha' Litvinenko Mr Ben Emmerson QC, representing Mr Litvinenko's widow said the following: Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for trying to "expose the corruption" at the heart of Vladimir Putin's "mafia state"; he was "eliminated" because he had made an enemy of the "close knit group of criminals who surrounded and still surround Vladimir Putin and keep his corrupt regime in power".

Equipped with a compass and basic knowledge about rockets entry point at shelling, Mariupol local resident proves the city was shelled by Russian-backed terrorists