foreign notes

From Mustafa Nayem's facebook : "Moscow has given Washington an ultimatum: either the federalization of Ukraine with regions acqu...

Latest OPs indicate Petro Poroshenko will be next Ukrainian president - 24.9% of voters are ready to support him. Klychko is at 8.9%, T...

[source] Also,  Good site for updates here

Another must see video - this time from British Channel 4 News - a brief inteview with the brilliant young journalist Ben Judah.. The Brit...

I cannot recommend strongly enough this video of a brilliant recent presentation at Chatham House, London, By Professor Michael Ignatieff, P...

The excellent Orysia Lutsevych of Chatham House tweeted this a few hours ago: "#crimea annexation also result of total failure of K...

Some seasoned observers  of the current situation in Ukraine claim: "The methods, shifting rhetoric, the vibe in Crimea all point to a ...

"Putin's grand dream and the prime directive of Russian foreign policy is to create something that he calls the "Eurasian Unio...

Lots of excellent analytic articles out there right now on the current crisis in Ukraine. Here are a few: A lengthy, detailed "how we...

Watch video here  Impressive?...I think so. p.s.  "What are Moscow’s objectives? Russia’s objective is Ukraine as a whole, not ju...

"Knowing Russian used to be a key to success in Central Asia, but now it’s is taking a backburner to English and other languages. Why? ...

More than half of Ukrainians want to join the EU, even though such a possibility is many years away.  Putin's outrageous intervention...

This is the new banner at the top of 'big-selling Segodnya' newspaper website.  Segodnya's management is in Kyiv, but it is ...

Two of the lead stories on the big-selling Donbass newspaper site: Chairman of Donetsk Regional Council Andrei Shishatskiy today appealed ...

Presidential elections in Ukraine were to take place in Spring next year. They are now scheduled to be held at the end of May. Whenever they...

One of Ukraine's richest man, Donbas oligarch Serhiy Taruta,  has published an impassioned statement for Ukraine's integrity to be...

Russian political analyst and seasoned Ukraine-watcher, Stanislav Byelkovsky considers the crisis in Crimea may well blow over in a few days...

Interesting poll on the Donbass.ua website . Site visitors were given several possible alternatives to the question: There has been ...

BBC2  'Newsnight' programme reports British ballistics experts were working on Maidan today gathering forensic evidence for any pos...

Lots more photos of Yanukovych's pad in the Carpathian mountains here And a video of Yanukovch's huge hunting grounds and r...