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WHO IS THE MAN WHO FEARS WE COULD BE ON THE EVE OF 'WORLD WAR III'? [Hilarion Alfeyev, 48, a Russian Orthodox bishop who acts as the 'foreign minister' of his Church] (Breitbart) 08/31/2014
We need to tell the truth about what Russia is doing in Ukraine. Nato must face up to the realities of Putin’s war of aggression in eastern Europe – and take material steps to support Ukraine. By Wesley Clark (The Guardian) 08/31/2014
Ukrainian Woman, Held Up to Public Abuse, Is Released (New York Times) 08/31/2014
Putin Urges ‘Statehood’ Talks for Eastern Ukraine (New York Times) 08/31/2014
Separatists claim first attack on Ukrainian ship [+VIDEO] (Daily Telegraph) 08/31/2014
Putin calls for talks about 'statehood' in eastern Ukraine [+VIDEO] (Washington Post) 08/31/2014
Fears of massacre after accusations Russians reneged on safe passage for Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian forces said pro-Putin forces went back on a promise to allow them to leave encircled town (Daily Telegraph) 08/31/2014
Ukraine Loses Ground to Russian-Backed Rebels Ahead of Cease-Fire Talks. Russia, Ukraine Swap Captured Soldiers; EU Cool to Military Aid for Kiev (Wall Street Journal) 08/31/2014
Russians Get Creative With Ukraine Protests Despite Danger (NBC) 08/31/2014
Ukrainian cargo plane with seven on board crashes in Algeria: ministry (Reuters) 08/31/2014
After Crimea, Russian Germans Press for Restoration of Their Republic (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
‘Russia Stands at the Brink of Catastrophe,’ Russian Anti-War Movement Warns (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Belarus has a Name and It Isn’t Belorussia, Russian Court Told (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Moscow Views Donetsk and Luhansk as Surety Against Ukraine Joining NATO, Lukin Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Nazarbayev Says Kazakhstan Could Leave Putin’s Eurasian Union (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Putin Needs ‘Not Victory but War Itself,’ Kruglyakovsky Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Putin Accepts Only ‘Imperial-Militarist’ Component of Soviet Inheritance, Shtepa Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Top US senator urges weapons for Ukraine to fight 'invasion' [Robert Menendez] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/31/2014
As Ukrainian troops retreat, separatists celebrate new offensive (Yahoo/AFP) 08/31/2014
Russia's Putin seeks 'statehood' talks on east Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/31/2014
Mariupol residents form human chain against Russian aggression (KHPG) 08/31/2014
Putin’s Suppression of Tatarstan Sovereignty has Cost Every Tatar 70,000 US Dollars in Income (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Putin Adopts Hitler’s ‘Stab in the Back’ Theory for Defeat in World War I (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
Russian Neo-Nazis Fighting for Moscow in Ukraine, Ukrainian Jewish Leader Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/31/2014
OP-ED: Arm Ukraine or Surrender. By BEN JUDAH (The New York Times) 08/31/2014
Putin Threatens Nuclear War Over Ukraine (The Daily Beast) 08/31/2014
Vladimir Putin Isn’t Going To Stop. Wreaking havoc in Ukraine is just the beginning. (Buzzfeed) 08/31/2014
Menendez: US should provide arms to Ukraine to fight Russian ‘invasion’ (The Hill) 08/31/2014
The Economist explains Who the Ukrainian rebels are (The Economist) 08/31/2014
Obama seeks to reassure jittery NATO members after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Estonia speech to reaffirm U.S. commitment to treaty obligations amid Vladimir Putin aggression (Washington Times) 08/31/2014
Putin seeks 'statehood' talks on east Ukraine. Russian president raises stakes in Ukraine conflict, calling for talks on secession of pro-Moscow regions. (Al Jazeera) 08/31/2014
Pro-Russian Separatists Attack Ukrainian Military Ship [VIDEO] (International Business Times) 08/31/2014
Pro-Russia rebels confident after making gains (Yahoo/AP) 08/30/2014
Opinion: Garry Kasparov: It’s a War, Stupid! (TIME) 08/30/2014
Britain to spearhead 10,000-strong Nato rapid reaction force with mission to halt Putin's 'Tsarist expansionism' (Daily Mail) 08/30/2014
Latest from the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 29 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/30/2014
Germany's Merkel: EU gives Russia 1 week to scale back Ukraine intervention or face sanctions (Yahoo/AP) 08/30/2014
Interview: Will A Tusk Presidency Help EU Look East? (RFE/RL) 08/30/2014
Russian Politician Beaten After Reporting Soldiers' Funerals (RFE/RL) 08/30/2014
Chechens Now Fighting On Both Sides In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/30/2014
Putin: You better not come after a nuclear-armed Russia (CNN) 08/30/2014
Putin Lashes Out at Ukraine Over Failure of Talks. Ukraine Retreats in Effort to Isolate Rebel Stronghold. Pro-Russia Separatists Advance in East as Preparations Build for Clashes Near Southern Port (Wall Street Journal) 08/30/2014
EU leaders try to defuse Ukraine crisis as fears over war grow (The Guardian) 08/30/2014
Ukraine's Success Rooted in an Atlanta Connection (The New York Times) 08/30/2014
Mr Putin’s wake-up call. The Western alliance is responding better to Russian aggression in Ukraine. But there is more to do (The Economist) 08/30/2014
War, not peace. The evidence of Russian incursions into eastern Ukraine becomes ever clearer (The Economist) 08/30/2014
Russian authorities must end impunity for attacks on journalists, says OSCE Representative following another attack in Pskov (OSCE) 08/30/2014
Poroshenko: Russian troops have entered (Ukrainian Journal) 08/29/2014
Government to transfer $340 million to NBU to prop up hryvnia (Ukrainian Journal) 08/29/2014
Croatia to supply 14 military transport helicopters to Ukraine (Ukrainian Journal) 08/29/2014
Spot Report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): SMM establishment of advance team in Mariupol, 28 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/29/2014
Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected by all sides and at all times, says Chair (OSCE) 08/29/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 28 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/29/2014
Who'll Win the Fight Between Russia and Ukraine? Maybe China (VICE News) 08/29/2014
Ukraine wants weapons, does not expect NATO intervention: envoy (Reuters) 08/29/2014
NATO Says It Would Respect Any Ukraine Decision to Try to Join Alliance (Wall Street Journal) 08/29/2014
Is Russia Suited for Democracy? By Vladimir Kara-Murza (World Affairs Journal) 08/29/2014
Podcast: What Does Putin Want? [Sean Guillory, social media coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies and author of Sean's Russia Blog; and Alexander Motyl, a professor at Rutgers University-Newary and author of numerous books on post-Soviet affairs.] (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
Putin's Plan? Or Kremlin Chaos? (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
There's A Word For What's Going On In Ukraine... But What Is It? (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
Op-ed: Vladimir Putin’s rusty iron curtain. Vladimir Putin is isolating Russia by bullying Ukraine and dragging his country into a ruinous, long-term confrontation with far superior military and economic powers. (Toronto Star) 08/29/2014
Europe filling gas storage facilities as Russian cutoff threat looms (Ukrainian Journal) 08/29/2014
NATO Chief Accuses Russia Of 'Direct' Military Involvement In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
Dutch prosecutor in Ukraine for crash inquiry (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
Ukraine ready to decide future of Crimea's Scythian gold (Interfax-Russia) 08/29/2014
Putin expects recognition of Crimea as part of Russia to take long time (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/29/2014
Russia Demands Ukraine Release Embassy Employees Held On Weapons Charges (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
Iryna Dovhan, the woman humiliated by terrorists in Donetsk, has been released [Dozhd TV] (Euromaidan Press) 08/29/2014
Russian aggression against Ukraine and its punishment (legal analysis) [RFE/RL] (Euromaidan Press) 08/29/2014
How the Association Agreement with the EU affects Ukrainian trademarks (Euromaidan Press) 08/29/2014
NATO Secretary General statement after the extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NATO) 08/29/2014
Russia's Putin urges release of Ukrainian soldiers (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
EU weighs Ukraine policy, Russia sanctions (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
UN: Pro-Russian rebels, Ukraine target civilians (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
Obama cautions against using force to solve crises (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions. $10 billion Russian fund with US advisers, partners complicates West's sanctions over Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/29/2014
Relatives of Russian Soldiers Captured by Ukraine Demand Answers (The New York Times) 08/29/2014
Putin Commends Separatist Militias in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/29/2014
Ukrainian Prime Minister Says Government Will Seek NATO Membership (NPR) 08/29/2014
Russia Denies It's Directly Aiding Pro-Russian Separatists. Russia's government says any Russians who may be in Ukraine are volunteers. For a Russian perspective, David Greene talks to Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the journal, Russia In Global Affairs. [BRAMA: Lukyanov says that Russia wants Ukraine to know that it cannot win this war.] (NPR) 08/29/2014
Russia Moves More Troops Across Ukraine Border, NATO Says. David Greene talks to Alexander Vershbow, deputy secretary general of NATO, about Russian military advances into Ukraine. The NATO-Ukraine Commission held an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday. (NPR) 08/29/2014
NATO tells Russia to halt 'illegal' actions in Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/29/2014
Russia warns of high risk to gas deliveries to Europe this winter (Yahoo/AFP) 08/29/2014
Putin hails Ukraine separatists as NATO holds crisis talks (Yahoo/AFP) 08/29/2014
UN chief 'gravely concerned' as Ukraine death toll hits 2,600 (Yahoo/AFP) 08/29/2014
Death toll in Ukraine fighting hits 2,593 - U.N. human rights official (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
On Russian troops in Ukraine, honesty is not everyone's best policy (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Ukraine seeks NATO membership in response to Russia joining war (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
NATO's Rasmussen-Russia blatantly violating Ukraine's sovereignty (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Pulev accuses Klitschko of feigning injury (Reuters) 08/29/2014
Russia says open to gas talks with Ukraine, offers discount (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Ten Ukrainian soldiers killed in eastern conflict in past 24 hours (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Putin says Kiev's refusal to negotiate with separatists is problem (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Canadian, Russian diplomats trade jibes over Ukraine dispute (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Russia's Putin says Ukrainian operations in east reminiscent of Nazi siege (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Ukraine in critical need of second IMF aid tranche - PM (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
EU says Moscow must stop aiding separatists in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Ukrainian PM says government will work for membership of NATO (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Russia says no proof that its military fighting in eastern Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Russia urges Ukraine to store more gas for winter (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Khodorkovsky says Moscow lying about Ukraine, urges protests (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Ukraine says Moscow corridor move shows Kremlin control of separatists (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Separatists say will allow 'trapped' Ukrainian forces to withdraw (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Eastern Ukraine rebel leader agrees to let encircled Ukraine troops leave (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Opinion: Putin's war 2.0 in Ukraine. Russia's decision to wage war against Ukraine can no longer be denied. That forces Europe's hand and will lead to more sanctions, writes DW's Ingo Mannteufel. (Deutsche Welle) 08/29/2014
NATO releases satellite imagery showing Russian combat troops inside Ukraine (NATO) 08/29/2014
Moscow Blacklists Russian NGO Office That Announced Soldiers' Deaths In Ukraine. Now 'foreign agents'. (RFE/RL) 08/29/2014
Movie about Cardinal Husar and His Classmates to Be Released in September (RISU) 08/29/2014
Gazprom monopoly broken in Moldova (EurActiv) 08/29/2014
Moscow Military Review Lists Seven ‘Probable’ Targets in ‘Novorossiya’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/29/2014
Putin Commits Himself to ‘Novorossiya’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/29/2014
Russia Lacks Resources for Occupation of Eastern Ukraine, Moscow Military Expert Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/29/2014
Russian Invasion Underscores Putin’s Failure in Ukraine, MGIMO Professor Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/29/2014
Buddhist Cossacks to Restore Tsarist-Era Unit to Fight in Ukraine (Window on Eurasia) 08/29/2014
The Russian Invasion and Deaths Putin didn’t mention (KHPG) 08/29/2014
Mariupol: Putin get out! (KHPG) 08/29/2014
NATO not against Ukraine's accession - Rasmussen (Ukrinform) 08/29/2014
Government tables in parliament bill cancelling Ukraine's non-aligned NATO status - Yatseniuk (Ukrinform) 08/29/2014
Ukrainian journalists burst from encirclement near Ilovaisk. Photos (Ukrinform) 08/29/2014
Putin publicly gave order to terrorists - Security & Defense Council (Ukrinform) 08/29/2014
All miners lifted from Zasiadko mine (Ukrinform) 08/29/2014
Ukraine LiveBlog Day 193: Putin Appeals to ‘Militia of Novorossiya’ (The Interpreter) 08/29/2014
Opinion: Is the U.S. Enabling Putin's Invasion? (The Daily Beast) 08/29/2014
Obama Says Russia's 'Invasion' of Ukraine Not a Shift (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/29/2014
Russian Foreign Ministry Accuses Kiev of Detaining Embassy Employees (The Moscow Times) 08/29/2014
Putin: Ukrainian government should not fear federalization [BRAMA: But Russia fears federalization!] (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/29/2014
Ukraine Regroups As Russia Attacks (Infographic) (Kyiv Post) 08/29/2014
U.N. Security Council Meeting on Ukraine-Russia Conflict (VIDEO) ['reports that close to 1,000 Russian troops had entered Ukraine. NATO released satellite images showing “additional evidence” that Russian combat solders were operating inside Ukraine.'] (C-Span) 08/28/2014
Has Russia waged a war in eastern Ukraine? Chrystia Freeland, a member of the Canadian Parliament who is of Ukrainian descent, weighs in (VIDEO) (Al Jazeera) 08/28/2014
New Book Tells How Russia Took Crimea So Easily (The Moscow Times) 08/28/2014
Obama rules out military response to Russian moves in Ukraine (Los Angeles Times) 08/28/2014
Kiev Releases Names of Blacklisted Russian Journalists (The Moscow Times) 08/28/2014
Op-ed: NATO must stand up to Putin’s threat to invade Ukraine (Washington Post) 08/28/2014
Why Russia Wants the Federalization of Ukraine. By Alexander Motyl (Huffington Post) 08/28/2014
A Few Brave Russians Protest Invasion Of Southeast Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/28/2014
Hockey star Alex Ovechkin takes Putin's side in the Ukraine war (Vox) 08/28/2014
RUSSIA CONTINUES TO TRANSFER ITS FORCES ACROSS THE BORDER TO UKRAINE IN SPITE OF THE MINSK MEETING (Burkonews.info) 08/28/2014
How to Stop Putin’s War in Ukraine - Steven Pifer (Politico) 08/28/2014
Comment by Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on the invasion of Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine (Website) 08/28/2014
Putin's End-Game: Expansion or Self-Destruction? (Mashable) 08/28/2014
The very scary word in Putin's new statement on the Ukraine crisis: Novorossiya. By Max Fisher (Vox) 08/28/2014
Boots on the ground. President Obama firmly rules out U.S. military action, as NATO details how Russian troops are definitely inside Ukraine’s borders. Chris Hayes has the very latest. (VIDEO) (MSNBC) 08/28/2014
McCain and Graham on Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Press release) (Website) 08/28/2014
Ukraine leader, after key loss to separatists, says situation 'difficult but controllable' (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine to bring back compulsory military service: Ukraine defense council (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Exclusive - Over 100 Russian soldiers killed in single Ukraine battle - Russian rights activists (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russia moves will boost NATO leaders' resolve at summit: Canada (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Wall Street loses ground on Ukraine worry (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Canada blocking NATO pledge for more defence spending -sources (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Obama stops short of calling Russia actions in Ukraine an invasion (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
U.S. openly accuses Russia of sending combat troops to Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russian troops 'directly involved' in Ukraine conflict (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
US rebukes Russia: 'Stop lying about Ukraine' (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Army wives urge Russia to come clean on soldiers in Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
'The audacity of taupe': Obama suit creates sartorial stir (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Obama accuses Russia, says no US military action in Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Obama leads condemnation as West rounds on Russia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Romania, Moldova, Georgia 'alarmed' about Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Obama says he'll meet next month at White House with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
UN Security Council meets on Ukraine crisis (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
A look at US, European sanctions on Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Obama puts Ukraine violence squarely on Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Obama Urges Calm in Face of Crises in Ukraine and Syria (The New York Times) 08/28/2014
The Other Big Mac Index. Russia Goes to War With McDonald’s, Soviet Style. By Masha Gessen (The New York Times) 08/28/2014
Mr. Putin Tests the West in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/28/2014
Momentum Gathers For The West's Response To Russia (NPR) 08/28/2014
Ukraine Leader Says ‘Huge Loads of Arms’ Pour in From Russia (The New York Times) 08/28/2014
Russia replies to Canada's colorful map tweet (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Webcast: Ukraine - Security Council, 7253rd meeting (VIDEO) (United Nations) 08/28/2014
UN Security Council members lament Ukraine crisis (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Op-ed: Putin Marches Ahead. He plays Merkel and Obama for naifs as he grabs more of Ukraine. (The Wall Street Journal) 08/28/2014
Op-ed: Putin's Popularity Masks an Uncomfortable Reality (The Moscow Times) 08/28/2014
Russia's Ruble Plunges to Historical Low Over Ukraine Tensions (The Moscow Times) 08/28/2014
Freezing The Donbas (RFE/RL) 08/28/2014
Ongoing Violations of OSCE Principles and Commitments by the Russian Federation and the Situation in Ukraine (OSCE) 08/28/2014
Russian Invasion: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s address to the nation (VIDEO) (Ukraine Today) 08/28/2014
Muslim school head fined for ‘extremist literature’ in Crimea ['(B)ooks in the library which are on Russia’s substantial list of prohibited books.'] (KHPG) 08/28/2014
BREMMER: Putin Has Now Cornered Ukraine And Its President (Yahoo/Business Insider) 08/28/2014
Polish foreign minister calls Russia's moves in Ukraine 'aggression' [Sikorski] (Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russia Wants Say in EU-Ukraine Association Deal (The Moscow Times) 08/28/2014
Crisis deepens as Ukraine says Russian troops back rebel advance (Reuters) 08/28/2014
UPDATED Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post (CBC/AP) 08/28/2014
UN Security Council holds emergency session on Ukraine (CTV/AP) 08/28/2014
OSCE Envoys Argue Over Reports of Russian Invasion of Ukraine (OSCE) 08/28/2014
Ukraine crisis: T-72 tank shoots hole in Russian denial (BBC) 08/28/2014
Ukraine asks for large-scale military aid from EU (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Klimkin proposes holding NATO session in Kyiv and OSCE meeting in Mariupol (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Yatseniuk asks West to convene urgent UN and OSCE meeting (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Switzerland convenes urgent OSCE Permanent Council meeting on Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Pyatt says more Russian troops in eastern Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Ukraine: 2 tank columns from Russia enter Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Russian armored columns said to capture key Ukrainian town (Washington Post) 08/28/2014
Ukraine security spokesman says 2 columns of tanks from Russia have entered strategic town (Yahoo/CP) 08/28/2014
EXCLUSIVE: Kyiv asks EU summit to discuss Ukraine (EurActiv) 08/28/2014
EU calls on Russia to stop 'border hostilities' (VIDEO) (EurActiv) 08/28/2014
Ukraine Declares Russian Invasion as Sanctions Threat Raised (Bloomberg) 08/28/2014
Russia 'has invaded' Ukraine: President (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of launching invasion (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Lithuania says reports of Russia troops in Ukraine an ’obvious invasion’ (Baltic Times) 08/28/2014
EU 'extremely concerned' by escalation of Ukraine crisis (La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno) 08/28/2014
Invasion Fears Spread as Thousands of Russian Troops Move Into Ukraine (Gawker) 08/28/2014
Exclusive - Armoured column seen in south Russia near border with Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine leader says Russian forces are in the country as key town falls (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russian troops 'directly' involved in Ukraine conflict: US, Kiev (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Rights adviser to Putin says Russia 'invading' Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine: Russia Has 'Entered' The Country (+VIDEO) (Yahoo/Sky News) 08/28/2014
U.S., Russians Try Track Two Diplomacy As Relations Hit A New Low (AUDIO) (NPR) 08/28/2014
Russian forces, separatists are staging counter-offensive in east Ukraine - Ukraine security council (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine: Russia Is Invading (The Daily beast) 08/28/2014
Russian Moms Denounce Putin’s Not-So-Secret Ukraine Invasion (The Daily beast) 08/28/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 192: Novoazovsk Occupied As Yatsenyuk Calls For Emergency UNSC Meeting (The Interpreter) 08/28/2014
+++Live updates: Russian troops reportedly in eastern Ukraine+++ (Deutsche Welle) 08/28/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of bringing in troops [was: Crisis deepens as Ukraine says Russian troops back rebel advance] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Government to support hryvnia by replenishing NBU reserves by $340 mln (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
Eurasia Drilling warns of sanctions impact in Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Oettinger says EU's Russian gas via Ukraine probably safe (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
EU seeks to secure winter gas supply in Ukraine crisis: Oettinger (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukrainian PM Yatseniuk asks U.S., EU and G7 to freeze Russian assets (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine, Russian debt selloff deepens on troop movement reports (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russian village's graves may tie Kremlin to fighting in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
More than 1,000 Russian troops operating in Ukraine - NATO military officer (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine rebel leader says targeting strategic port [Alexander Zakharchenko] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Ukraine's OSCE envoy says Russian forces seized city [Novoazovsk] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
'Ukraine invasion' fears send ruble to five-month low (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
300 miners trapped at Zasiadko mine due to fighting in Donetsk (Ukrinform) 08/28/2014
President Poroshenko's address on the aggravation of the situation in Donetsk region (VIDEO) (President.gov.ua) 08/28/2014
Separatist Leader Says Thousands of Russians Have Fought in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/28/2014
Poroshenko Convenes Emergency Meeting, Says Russian Troops In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/28/2014
Russian Court Orders Psychiatric Examination For Ukrainian Officer (RFE/RL) 08/28/2014
President of Ukraine and Chancellor of Germany discussed further international steps on de-escalation of the situation in the Donbas (President.gov.ua) 08/28/2014
President cancelled his visit to Turkey and urgently convenes the NSDC meeting (President.gov.ua) 08/28/2014
10 Things to Know for Today [The attack along a new southeastern front raises the prospect that the rebels are seeking to create a land link between Russia and Crimea.] (Yahoo/AP) 08/28/2014
Russian-backed separatists enter southeast Ukraine town (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russian-backed separatists take high point east of Donetsk - Ukrainian military source (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russia says military planning will take account of NATO moves on borders (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Finland accuses Russia of third airspace breach in a week (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Parents’ anguish over captured soldiers lays bare Russia’s covert war in Ukraine. Families of paratroopers plead for Kremlin to return their sons, saying they were led into trouble ‘like blind mice’ (Daily Telegraph) 08/28/2014
U.S. Says Russian Denials Over Ukraine 'absurd' (Fox/MarketWatch) 08/28/2014
NATO: Russia role in Ukraine is increasingly overt (MarketWatch) 08/28/2014
JPMorgan 'targeted by Russian hackers' (Yahoo/AFP) 08/28/2014
Russian Hackers Reportedly Hit JPMorgan, Other Banks (NPR) 08/28/2014
Moscow Patriarchate’s Position Crumbling in Ukraine (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
NATO: Russian incursions into Ukraine take ‘overt and obvious form’ (EurActiv) 08/28/2014
Ukraine, beware of the West (EurActiv) 08/28/2014
West’s ‘Chamberlains of Today’ Will Soon Face a Larger War than the One in Ukraine, Russian Observer Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
Russia’s Military Mobilization System ‘Just as Ineffective as Ukraine’s,’ Moscow Commentator Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
Putin Can Deny But No Longer Conceal He’s Invaded Ukraine (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
After Crimea, West Now Believes Russia is Capable of Anything, Gontmakher Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
Moscow ‘Evacuates’ Factory from Ukraine to Chuvashia (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
Luhansk factory moved to Russia amid violence (PressTV) 08/28/2014
Putin May Not Get His Single History Textbook (Window on Eurasia) 08/28/2014
Russian ’Resolution’ of a Russian-manufactured Crisis (KHPG) 08/28/2014
Nadiya Savchenko: Yanukovych fell, so will Putin (KHPG) 08/28/2014
Russian NGO has list of 400 killed or wounded Russian soldiers (KHPG) 08/28/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 27 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/28/2014
Ukrainians in London raise money for their homeland’s army on Independence Day (Kyiv Post) 08/28/2014
IMF says Ukraine on track with conditions of loan programme (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/28/2014
Russian reporters 'attacked at secret soldier burials' (BBC) 08/27/2014
Is Russia really invading Ukraine? Ukraine says Russia has launched military incursions and the State Dept. says “a counteroffensive is likely under way.” Adrian Karatnycky and William Taylor on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell (VIDEO) (MSNBC) 08/27/2014
Pro-Russia Forces Gain Ground as Ukraine’s Volunteer Battalions Decry Kiev Leaders (VICE News) 08/27/2014
NATO Isn't Arming Ukraine, Just Like Russia Isn't Fighting There (VICE News) 08/27/2014
Russia Says It Will Respond To NATO Troop Rotations In East (RFE/RL) 08/27/2014
Video of Combat in Eastern Ukraine Adds to Worries in Kiev (The New York Times) 08/27/2014
Reporting on the Front Lines in Ukraine. By Andrew Kramer (The New York Times) 08/27/2014
Canada’s delegation to NATO mocks Russia with snarky tweet over Ukrainian incursion (National Post) 08/27/2014
Putin and Poroshenko hold talks in Minsk (Ukrainian Journal) 08/27/2014
Ukraine video purports to show Russian POWs captured alongside rebels (Ukrainian Journal) 08/27/2014
UN report accuses pro-Russian separatists of human rights abuses (Ukrainian Journal) 08/27/2014
Poroshenko thanks German chancellor for her support of Ukraine (Ukrainian Journal) 08/27/2014
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, 20 August until 08:00, 27 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/27/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 26 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/27/2014
OSCE Representative condemns attacks on journalists in Russia, calls on authorities for swift and thorough investigations (OSCE) 08/27/2014
Battle for Ukraine's southeast coast heats up (Yahoo/AP) 08/27/2014
Bishop says Russian Orthodox are spreading Ukraine ‘misinformation’ (RISU) 08/27/2014
Editorial: Russia’s new tactics of war shouldn’t fool anyone (Washington Post) 08/27/2014
US sees 'Russia-directed' counter-offensive in Ukraine (AFP) 08/27/2014
Jen Psaki, Daily Press Briefing: concerned by the Russian Government’s unwillingness to tell the truth even as its soldiers are found 30 miles inside Ukraine...incursions indicate a Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway in Donetsk and Luhansk (State.gov) 08/27/2014
Ukraine says convoy of 100 Russian tanks have crossed into east (Daily Telegraph) 08/27/2014
Ukrainian Sergeant: 'This Is Now A War With Russia' (Business Insider) 08/27/2014
Ukraine's Hryvnia Currency Continues Free Fall. Hryvnia Loses 1.7% to Trade at Weakest Level Ever Against Dollar (The Wall Street Journal) 08/27/2014
Ukraine says it’s being invaded by Russia, and can you please retweet (Washington Post) 08/27/2014
Video of Combat in Eastern Ukraine Adds to Worries in Kiev (The New York Times) 08/27/2014
Ukraine Reports Russian Invasion On a New Front (The New York Times) 08/27/2014
Roofer Gives Pro-Russian Tabloid's Money to Ukrainian Army (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Report: Russian Troops Were Paid $7,000 to Fight in Eastern Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Ukraine Won't Extradite Russian Accused of Plotting to Kill Putin (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Loose Cannons and Ukrainian Casualties. By Alexander J. Motyl (World Affairs Journal) 08/27/2014
Russia says not interested in confrontation, 'sanctions spiral' (Reuters) 08/27/2014
Mayor: Rebels enter key southeast Ukrainian town Novoazovsk (Yahoo/AP) 08/27/2014
Klitschko set for November heavyweight title defence (Yahoo/AFP) 08/27/2014
Ukraine says more tanks roll in from Russia despite talks (Yahoo/AFP) 08/27/2014
Stars flock to Venice as world's oldest film fest begins [Ukraine's Oleh Sentsov unable to make it because imprisoned by Russia] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/27/2014
Captive Russian paratroopers say they didn't realise they were in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Swiss outline new measures to stop bypassing of sanctions on Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Russia denies it has plans to block gas transit to Europe (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Ukraine crisis forces European defense spending rethink (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Talks optimism fades as Ukraine says Russia makes new incursion (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Germany says Russia must stop flow of weapons into Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Ukraine expects 'practical help' from NATO: PM Yatseniuk (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Probably no breakthrough in Putin-Poroshenko talks, Steinmeier says (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/27/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of new military moves (Reuters) 08/27/2014
Kiev reports movement of tanks, heavy weapons from Russia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/27/2014
[Kidnapped Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko at her trial in Russia:] We have no Yanukovych, and you will not have Putin soon (Ukrinform) 08/27/2014
Poroshenko signs decree dissolving Verkhovna Rada (Ukrinform) 08/27/2014
Russian helicopters invade Kherson region (Ukrinform) 08/27/2014
Militants shell Donetsk airport with Grad rocket launchers twice (Ukrinform) 08/27/2014
Artillery destroy 225 terrorists near Ilovaisk, Horlivka, Donetsk region (Ukrinform) 08/27/2014
Russian Journalists Attacked on Fact-Seeking Assignment About Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Putin Downplays Reports of Russian Soldiers Captured in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
UN Human Rights Report Cites Murder, Kidnap and Torture in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Poroshenko Eyes Ukraine Cease-Fire After 'Very Tough Talks' With Putin (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/27/2014
U.S. NGO Consultant Jennifer Gaspar Deported From Russia After 10 Years [...calling her a threat to Russia's national security] (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
NATO Planning Military Bases on Russia's Doorstep (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Op-ed: Ukraine's Snap Election Won't Be a Miracle Cure (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Op-ed: The KGB and Me (The Moscow Times) 08/27/2014
Ukraine Alleges New Russian Troop Movements Following Minsk Crisis Talks (RFE/RL) 08/27/2014
Official report: Russia is a threat to Bulgaria (EurActiv) 08/27/2014
Putin and Poroshenko shake hands, but discord prevails (EurActiv) 08/27/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko vows ceasefire plan after talks with Putin (+VIDEO) (EurActiv) 08/27/2014
Ukraine crisis: Novoazovsk targeted by rebels (BBC) 08/27/2014
Russian reporters 'attacked at secret soldier burials' (BBC) 08/27/2014
For Ordinary Russians, Moscow’s Use of Regular Army in Ukraine Crosses a Rubicon, Mitrokhin Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/27/2014
If Russia is not at war, then who is in those freshly-dug graves? (KHPG) 08/27/2014
Veto Crimea bill or shame Ukraine (KHPG) 08/27/2014
Single Voices Defending Russia against the ‘TeleJunta’ (KHPG) 08/27/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 191: Fighting In Ilovaisk, Amvrosievka and Novoazovsk (The Interpreter) 08/27/2014
Opinion: Irreconcilable positions in Minsk (Deutsche Welle) 08/27/2014
President Poroshenko: We demand resolute actions that will bring peace to the Ukrainian land (President.gov.ua) 08/27/2014
Petro Poroshenko and Angela Merkel discussed the results of the meeting in Minsk (President.gov.ua) 08/27/2014
Op-ed: Is NATO a Bulwark in Need of Reform or a Relic? (The New York Times) 08/27/2014
Ìîëîä³ Áàíäóðèñòè ijàñïîðè 'Çà Óêðà¿íó' / Bandura camp in PA sings 'For Ukraine' (VIDEO) (YouTube) 08/27/2014
Ñàâ÷åíêî: «Äÿêóþ÷è Áîãó, ó íàñ íåìຠßíóêîâè÷à, áóäó â³ðèòè, ùî ó âàñ íå áóäå Ïóò³íà» / Kidnapped pilot Nadia Savchenko at her trial: "Thank God Yanukovych has gone [from Ukraine], I have hope that Putin will leave [from Russia]" (Hromadske TV) 08/27/2014
SBU: Arrested Communist Party Members from Donbas Are Providing Evidence of their Support for Terrorism - BurkoNews.info (Burkonews.info) 08/26/2014
Biden Sends A Clear Message To Putin About Georgia, As Ukraine Intervention Continues (Business Insider) 08/26/2014
'Men in green' raise suspicions of east Ukrainian villagers (Reuters) 08/26/2014
Op-ed: Helping Ukraine Is a U.S. Imperative. A good relationship with Russia is important, but not if it can break solemn promises with impunity (The Wall Street Journal) 08/26/2014
Groundhog Day and Putin the Predator. We know Vladimir Putin's playbook for destabilizing Ukraine. Which is why only a decisive military victory against Moscow's forces will work. BY MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI (Foreign Policy) 08/26/2014
Ukraine Prime Minister Says Russia Planning to Cut Off Gas to Europe (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Pentagon: Russia supplies terrorists with military hardware (Ukrinform) 08/26/2014
Ukrainian border guards attacked from Russian Mi-24s, four dead (Ukrinform) 08/26/2014
Photo posted by Maria Antonova @mashant: Putin and Poroshenko sitting about a kilometer away from each other at talks (Twitter) 08/26/2014
Image posted by Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7 (Moscow Correspondent of the Guardian. Views my own.): Pinched off facebook. Above: expectation, below: reality (though I'm not sure anyone really expected that) (Twitter) 08/26/2014
Ukraine crisis: Nato plans east European bases to counter Russia (The Guardian) 08/26/2014
Russian Paratroops in Ukraine: Lost in a Game of Thrones (Video) (The Moscow Times) 08/26/2014
Transcribed: the Statements of a Russian Soldier Captured in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko To Seek Cease-Fire After 'Tough' Talks With Putin (RFE/RL) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko Calls For Peaceful Solution, Strong Border Controls (VIDEO) (RFE/RL) 08/26/2014
Videos of Alleged Russian Soldiers in Ukraine Emerges as Minsk Meeting Ends in Stalemate (VICE News) 08/26/2014
Wide gaps remain as Putin and Poroshenko discuss Ukraine crisis (+video) (Christian Science Monitor) 08/26/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 190: Russian Paratroopers Captured In Ukraine (The Interpreter) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko and Putin claim progress on Ukraine conflict (Deutsche Welle) 08/26/2014
Minister Klimkin: I am proud of the way the President held negotiations (President.gov.ua) 08/26/2014
Editorial: No Thaw Yet in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/26/2014
Putin Talks to Ukrainian Leader as Videos Show Captured Russian Soldiers (The New York Times) 08/26/2014
No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict (Yahoo/AP) 08/26/2014
Russia, Ukraine talks end without major breakthrough (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Seaside refuge becomes Ukraine's new front (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Putin says troops may have crossed into Ukraine during border patrol (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
US, Russia held secret Ukraine meeting on Finnish island: Helsinki (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Ukraine says detained Russian soldiers were on 'special mission' (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Exclusive - In Ukraine, an armoured column appears out of nowhere (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko wants strong border controls with Russia, end to arms supplies (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Putin and Poroshenko set out different paths to peace in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Russia's Putin says military escalation won't solve Ukraine crisis [BRAMA: This begs the question, why, then, is Putin escalating military incursions in Ukraine? is it because he assumes he will win outright, or is it because he believes he will eventually win by distabilizing Ukraine?] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Russian soldiers' capture clouds Putin-Poroshenko talks (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
EU's Ashton says wants Ukraine to safeguard territorial integrity (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Russian servicemen captured in Ukraine crossed border by mistake: agency [BRAMA: They also removed the insignias from their uniforms, removed all markings from their vehicles, and engaged in a battle against Ukraine's army - all by mistake] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Four border guards killed in Russian helicopter attack: military (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Five Questions Western Leaders Should Be Asking Themselves about the Crisis in Ukraine -- But Don’t Appear to Be (Window on Eurasia) 08/26/2014
Moscow Propaganda Pushed Federalization of Ukraine and then Stopped, Media Survey Finds (Window on Eurasia) 08/26/2014
New Film Documents that 10 Percent of Russian Troops in World War I were Tatars (Window on Eurasia) 08/26/2014
Kazakhstan at Risk of Ukraine’s Fate if Kazakhs Push Their Language Too Hard, Nazarbayev Warns (Window on Eurasia) 08/26/2014
Macabre Convoy: Cargo 200 from Ukraine to Russia (KHPG) 08/26/2014
Mejlis calls for boycott of Crimean elections (KHPG) 08/26/2014
Ukraine detains Russian paratroopers; U.S. ambassador warns of ‘counteroffensive’ (Washington Post) 08/26/2014
Early elections not to prevent ratification of agreement with EU in September - Poroshenko (Ukrinform) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko recalls in Minsk that people have made their choice (Ukrinform) 08/26/2014
Ukraine leader says talks with Putin 'deciding fate of world and Europe' (Focus) 08/26/2014
SSU detects and detains terrorists in liberated areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (SBU.gov.ua) 08/26/2014
Pyatt: New columns of Russian tanks crossing into Ukraine indicates Russian-directed counteroffensive (Kyiv Post) 08/26/2014
Election commission: Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk to vote in parliamentary elections (Kyiv Post) 08/26/2014
EU Case Against Russia's Import Bans Would Unravel WTO (The Moscow Times) 08/26/2014
Putin and Poroshenko set out different paths to peace in Ukraine (Reuters) 08/26/2014
OCCRP presents: The Russian laundromat (Kyiv Post) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko says not yet had one-on-one talks with Putin [12:30 ET] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Kyiv theater director credits self-analysis for surviving 70 days of captivity in Sloviansk (Kyiv Post) 08/26/2014
Putin warns on Ukraine pursuing closer ties with West (The Wall Street Journal) 08/26/2014
Russian Soldiers Are In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/26/2014
Russian military source says captured soldiers entered Ukraine by mistake (Kyiv Post) 08/26/2014
Finland Says NATO an Option After Russia ‘Violates’ Border Laws (Businessweek) 08/26/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 25 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/26/2014
Clouding Talks, Ukraine Says It Captured Russian Troops (The New York Times) 08/26/2014
Life in the DPR: In Donetsk Terrorists Tied Ukrainian Patriot to a Pole and Kick Her. PHOTOS (Censor.net.ua) 08/26/2014
Russian and Ukrainian presidents to meet (Ukrainian Journal) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko dissolves Parliament, setting stage for election on Oct. 26 (Ukrainian Journal) 08/26/2014
Ukraine and rebels mark 23rd Independence Day with rival parades (Ukrainian Journal) 08/26/2014
Rothschild to participate in consortium selling Poroshenko assets (Ukrainian Journal) 08/26/2014
OSCE core principles must be safeguarded in Ukraine, says Secretary General (OSCE) 08/26/2014
Russian Rock Star Makarevich Slammed in State TV Smear Campaign (The Moscow Times) 08/26/2014
Mystery Armed Convoy Spurs Questions in East Ukraine (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Russian Soldier Captured in Ukraine Speaks Out (VIDEO) (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Op-ed: Donetsk Is Neither Grozny Nor Stalingrad. By Mark Galeotti (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/26/2014
Poroshenko, Putin Shake Hands In Minsk. Ukrainian, Russian Leaders Shake Hands As Minsk Summit Under Way (RFE/RL) 08/26/2014
Secret US-Russia talks on Ukraine held in Finland (Yahoo/AP) 08/26/2014
Putin talks with Ukraine's leader; fighting widens (Yahoo/AP) 08/26/2014
Ukraine, Russia talks begin as Kiev holds 'Russian' soldiers (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Ukraine, Russia talks begin as Kiev holds 'Russian' soldiers (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Soviet rocker vilified for defying Moscow on Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Ukraine, Russia talks begin as Kiev holds 'Russian' soldiers (Yahoo/AFP) 08/26/2014
Ìýðèÿ Ñàí-Ôðàíöèñêî âûâåñèëà óêðàèíñêèé ôëàã / Ukrainian flag raised at San Francisco City Hall (SlavicSac.com) 08/25/2014
As Peace Talks Approach, Rebels Humiliate Prisoners in Ukraine [BRAMA: shows photo of Ukrainian woman tied to pole and being kicked by another for supporting the Ukrainian army. Very civilized.] (The New York Times) 08/25/2014
Russia Is Already Invading Ukraine (The Atlantic) 08/25/2014
AP reporters: Weaponry and supplies have been coming from direction of Russia into Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/25/2014
Weapons convoys seen rolling in eastern Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/25/2014
Russian Weapons Convoy Spotted Entering Ukraine as Poroshenko Dissolves Parliament (VICE News) 08/25/2014
In Donetsk region ten armed Russian subversives detained for illegal crossing Ukrainian border (SBU.gov.ua) 08/25/2014
Ukraine's Leonid Stadnik, 43, killed by cerebral haemorrhage (La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.it) 08/25/2014
Ukrainian president dissolves parliament and announces early elections in October (Yahoo/AP) 08/25/2014
Ukraine President Poroshenko Calls Snap General Election (Bloomberg) 08/25/2014
Report on Twitter by attorney Mark Feygin: Pilot Nadia Savchenko was captured by [pro]Russian terrorists before the two Russian journalists were killed in crossfire - but Russia claims Savchenko was directly responsible for the deaths / Ñàâ÷åíêî ïîòðàïèëà â ïîëîí ùå äî çàãèáåë³ ðîñ³éñüêèõ æóðíàë³ñò³â – àäâîêàò (Hromadske TV) 08/25/2014
ONE REASON FOR THE RUSSIAN HUMANITARIAN CONVOY (Burkonews.info) 08/25/2014
Obama faces decision on military aid for Ukraine (USA Today) 08/25/2014
Kremlin plans new Ukraine convoy as border clashes rage (Yahoo/AFP) 08/25/2014
Russia claims MH17 crash investigation stalled (Yahoo/AFP) 08/25/2014
Poroshenko rallies thousands in 'battle for Ukraine' (Yahoo/AFP) 08/25/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of opening new front before leaders' meeting (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/25/2014
Russia announces new convoy on eve of delicate Ukraine talks (Reuters) 08/25/2014
Russia Says It Will Send Another Aid Convoy to Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/25/2014
Russia allows dairy imports from Turkish firms after Western food ban (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/25/2014
Ukraine accuses Russian forces of opening new front in separatist war (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/25/2014
Rebels provoke Ukraine with National Day counter-parade (EurActiv) 08/25/2014
Putin has Condemned Himself to Fail by Setting Up HAMAS-Like Regimes in Ukraine, Ikhlov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/25/2014
Crimean Tatar Banned from Russian-Occupied Crimea Uses Video Conferencing to Lead Mejlis (Window on Eurasia) 08/25/2014
Moscow Patriarchate’s Backing of Russian Aggression Undermining Russian Orthodox Church Everywhere (Window on Eurasia) 08/25/2014
Terror in Their Eyes: Captivity in War-Torn Donetsk (Human Rights Watch) 08/25/2014
Refugees from Ukraine Give Moscow a Chance for Ethnic Engineering at Home (Window on Eurasia) 08/25/2014
Putin Threatens Modernity ‘No Less than Hitler Did,’ Skobov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/25/2014
Russian tanks invade Ukraine - Azov battalion deputy commander (Ukrinform) 08/25/2014
Merkel: Russia-Ukraine Meet Probably Won’t End Conflict (VIDEO) (Bloomberg) 08/25/2014
Russian Tanks Enter Southeastern Ukraine (Mashable/AP) 08/25/2014
Russia masses 47,000 military on border with Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/25/2014
Merkel: Ukraine can go to Eurasian Union (EUobserver) 08/25/2014
Ukraine: Russian forces enter southeast "in the guise" of rebels (CBS) 08/25/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko concerned over Russian moves -press service (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/25/2014
Russia announces second aid convoy for eastern Ukraine (+VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/25/2014
Russia Ups Pressure with New 'Aid' Convoy to Ukraine (VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/25/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 24 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/25/2014
Op-ed: Separatists' POW Parade Bodes Ill for Minsk Talks (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Ukraine Extreme Climber Strikes Again in Moscow (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Finland Accuses Russia of Violating Airspace Once More (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Russia Claims Exclusion From NATO Summit on Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Russia Wants to Send Second Aid Convoy to Ukraine (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/25/2014
Ukraine Clashes With Separatists Near Russian Border (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Ukraine Extreme Climber Claims Flag Stunt on Moscow Skyscraper (The Moscow Times) 08/25/2014
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 25 August 2014: The SMM, in Luhansk city, monitored the impact of the ongoing fighting (OSCE) 08/25/2014
Ukraine crisis: 'Column from Russia' moves on Mariupol (BBC) 08/25/2014
Ukrainian LiveBlog Day 189: Is There a Russian Invasion? (The Interpreter) 08/25/2014
Injured Klitschko calls off Pulev world title fight (Reuters) 08/25/2014
Kyiv Confronts 'Russian' Armor As Moscow Announces New Aid Convoy (RFE/RL) 08/25/2014
Donetsk POW March: When Is A Parade A War Crime? (RFE/RL) 08/25/2014
On Independence Day, Ukrainian Flag Flies In Unexpected Places (RFE/RL) 08/25/2014
Communism's Victims Deserve a Museum (The Daily Beast) 08/25/2014
Obama back in DC amid crises; as if he never left (Yahoo/AP) 08/25/2014
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano Celebrates Ukrainian-Americans (Website) 08/24/2014
Opinion: Ukraine fight shows how far Russia’s star has fallen from Soviet ‘glory’ (Reuters) 08/24/2014
Ukraine LiveBlog Day 188: Ukraine Celebrates Independence Day; Separatists Parade POWs (The Interpreter) 08/24/2014
In Ukraine, competing parades as east-west divisions deepen (+video) (Christian Science Monitor) 08/24/2014
The U.S. President congratulated Ukraine on the Independence Day (President.gov.ua) 08/24/2014
President Poroshenko: We must always be ready to defend independence (President.gov.ua) 08/24/2014
Military parade was held in Kyiv on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine (President.gov.ua) 08/24/2014
President Poroshenko at the parade in Odesa: Ukraine was, is and will be maritime state (President.gov.ua) 08/24/2014
President visited Odesa to congratulate Odesa residents on the Independence Day (President.gov.ua) 08/24/2014
On Independence Day, Ukraine's Existence Questioned. ['Cossack hetmans (warlords) soon found that the Russian Empire was like Hotel California: easy to check in, but impossible to leave.'] (The Moscow Times) 08/24/2014
Op-ed: EU Will Likely Get a Bad Deal On Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/24/2014
Op-ed: An American 'RT' Wouldn't Sway Russians (The Moscow Times) 08/24/2014
Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in streets of Donetsk (CNN) 08/24/2014
Chilling scene as pro-Moscow rebels brand Ukrainian PoWs 'fascists' and parade them through streets of Donetsk (Daily Mail) 08/24/2014
Kremlin-backed separatists humiliate Ukrainian army in Donetsk parade (VIDEO) (Kyiv Post) 08/24/2014
Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers on streets of Donetsk as citizens shout & hurl eggs (U.S. News/AP) 08/24/2014
Ukraine marks Independence Day with parade (Al Jazeera) 08/24/2014
Ukraine Showcases Military Might in Independence Day Celebration. Parade Draws Mixed Reaction as Conflict Continues in East (The Wall Street Journal) 08/24/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko Vows $3 Billion for Military (Voice of America) 08/24/2014
Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM): Shelling of residential areas in Donetsk, the SMM observes civilian fatalities (OSCE) 08/24/2014
Ukraine shows strength. Government troops marked Ukraine's independence day, parading through Kyiv with fresh military equipment. The government announced increased spending to end pro-Russian separatists' occcupations in the country's east. (VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/24/2014
Merkel visits Poroshenko in Kyiv (VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/24/2014
Ukraine Leader, Set to Meet Putin for Talks, Warns of Long Struggle (The New York Times) 08/24/2014
In Eastern Ukraine, Rebel Mockery Amid Independence Celebration (The New York Times) 08/24/2014
The foreigners who flocked to join the fight – in Ukraine (The Washington Post) 08/24/2014
Ukrainian Media Group Launches 24-Hour English TV Channel (RFE/RL) 08/24/2014
23rd Ukrainian Independence Day Observance At Ukrainian Cultural Center in South Bound Brook/Somerset, NJ (UOCofUSA) 08/24/2014
Rebels parade captured Ukrainian soldiers in east (Yahoo/AP) 08/24/2014
Rebels parade captured soldiers as Kiev marks independence day (Yahoo/AFP) 08/24/2014
Shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk tears family apart (Yahoo/AFP) 08/24/2014
Baltics mark 25 years since anti-Soviet human chain (Yahoo/AFP) 08/24/2014
As Obama's vacation ends, criticism does not (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/24/2014
Merkel dampens hopes of breakthrough at Putin-Poroshenko talks (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/24/2014
Number of Ukrainian government forces killed fighting separatists rises to 722 - Ukraine defense council (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/24/2014
Ukraine faces military threat for foreseeable future - Poroshenko (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/24/2014
Pope calls for prayers as Ukraine marks Independence Day (RISU) 08/24/2014
Stalin’s Annexation of Western Ukraine a Major Error, Russian Historian Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/24/2014
Shushkevich Understood Instantly August 1991 Coup was a Counter-Revolution (Window on Eurasia) 08/24/2014
Ukraine Allowed Russian Journalists to Ignore Their Complicity with Putin Regime, Sheremet Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/24/2014
Russia has Entered New Kind of ‘Time of Troubles,’ Kazan Scholar Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/24/2014
Shameful march of prisoners in Kremlin’s dirty war (KHPG) 08/24/2014
FSB holds ‘prophylactic talks’ on eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day (KHPG) 08/24/2014
Support for independence at record high (KHPG) 08/24/2014
Ukrainians Now Almost Unanimous in Supporting Independent Ukraine (Window on Eurasia) 08/24/2014
Ukraine Today jumps into the Ukraine-Russia media war. The world's newest 24-hour TV channel aims to offer a Ukrainian perspective to the English-language media. But will it find an audience? (Christian Science Monitor) 08/24/2014
Op-ed: NATO’s Second-Class Members. By Slawomir Sierakowski. The absence of peacekeepers in Poland and the Baltics is a concession to Russia. (The New York Times) 08/23/2014
Latvia's Tensions With Russians at Home Persist in Shadow of Ukraine Conflict (The New York Times) 08/23/2014
Ukrainians celebrate Flag Day today (Ukrinform) 08/23/2014
Press Statement: Death of Mykola Zelenec, Lithuania's Honorary Consul in Luhansk (State.gov) 08/23/2014
Petro Poroshenko held consultations with Joseph Biden (President.gov.ua) 08/23/2014
In A Time Of War and Recession, Ukraine's Independence Is more Important than Ever (Forbes) 08/23/2014
'Nowhere Is Definitely Safe Anymore': Inside the Besieged Ukrainian City of Luhansk (VICE News) 08/23/2014
Russian Convoy Leaves Ukraine After Reportedly Delivering Aid (NPR) 08/23/2014
Angela Merkel calls for Ukraine truce and urges strict controls on Russia's border (Daily Telegraph) 08/23/2014
Ukraine accuses Russian aid convoy of stealing factory equipment (euronews) 08/23/2014
Amid Outrage, Aid Delivery to Ukraine Brings a Public Relations Win in Russia (VICE News) 08/23/2014
Germany's vice-chancellor backs 'federalization' in Ukraine [Later, Merkel stated that he really meant to call for 'decentralization'] (Reuters) 08/23/2014
Merkel's visit: Hope and skepticism in Kyiv (Deutsche Welle) 08/23/2014
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: A 'honeymoon' for two dictators (Deutsche Welle) 08/23/2014
Merkel calls for bilateral ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia (+VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/23/2014
Opinion: Merkel shows solidarity with Ukraine (Deutsche Welle) 08/23/2014
German Chancellor Merkel arrives in Kyiv for crisis talks (Deutsche Welle) 08/23/2014
Ukraine crisis: Aid convoy returns to Russia after drop in Luhansk as Angela Merkel urges co-operation for peace (The Independent) 08/23/2014
Merkel Visits Kyiv for Crisis Talks; Russian Aid Convoy Leaves (Voice of America) 08/23/2014
Merkel arrives in Ukraine as tension escalates (The Hill) 08/23/2014
Germany Pledges Aid for Ukraine as Russia Hails a Returning Convoy (The New York Times) 08/23/2014
Donetsk: Photos of a besieged city draining of life (CNN) 08/23/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 22 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/23/2014
Here's What Ukraine's Poroshenko Should Offer Vladimir Putin Next Week In Minsk (Forbes) 08/23/2014
Russian humanitarian aid convoy returned from Ukraine and crossed into the Russian Federation at the Donetsk Border Crossing Point (OSCE) 08/23/2014
Russian trucks begin leaving Ukraine as Merkel arrives (Washington Post) 08/23/2014
Killing of Mykola Zelenc demonstrates urgent need to stop violent escalation in eastern Ukraine, says Swiss OSCE Permanent Council Chair (OSCE) 08/23/2014
With humanitarian aid urgently needed, OSCE Chairperson calls upon all sides to render convoy aid a co-operative endeavor again (OSCE) 08/23/2014
Russian aid trucks leave; highlight dire needs (Yahoo/AP) 08/23/2014
Shakhtar's stadium damaged by shelling in Donetsk (Yahoo/AP) 08/23/2014
Merkel jets into Kiev as tensions soar over Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/23/2014
Artillery fire 'kills two civilians' in Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/23/2014
Merkel says tightening Ukraine-Russian border is key to peace deal (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/23/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko sees removal of Russian 'mercenaries' as key to peace (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/23/2014
Merkel presses Russia to engage on peace plan with Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/23/2014
184 Russian vehicles from aid convoy to Ukraine return to Russia: Ukraine military [BRAMA: Reports said 280 trucks entered Ukraine] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/23/2014
Russian trucks are loading equipment from Ukrainian military plants: military spokesman (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/23/2014
Invasion by any other name (KHPG) 08/23/2014
Kremlin-backed militants murder Lithuanian honorary consul (KHPG) 08/22/2014
Strangers in the Homeland. Thousands of displaced eastern Ukrainians have headed to the western city of Lviv, where a spirit of generosity could give way to dangerous ethnic tensions. (Foreign Policy) 08/22/2014
A White Shining Lie. Putin's 'humanitarian' convoy is simply a pretext for the war the Kremlin's been planning for months. (Foreign Policy) 08/22/2014
With Russian Convoy in Ukraine, Defiant Putin Stays One Step Ahead (Foreign Policy) 08/22/2014
John Kerry Press Statement: Ukraine National Day (State.gov) 08/22/2014
Lithuanian diplomat 'murdered in eastern Ukraine' (Deutsche Welle) 08/22/2014
Dispatches: Merkel Shouldn’t Let Ukrainian Abuses Slide (Human Rights Watch) 08/22/2014
Russians Open Fire in Ukraine, NATO Reports (The New York Times) 08/22/2014
Russia Moves Artillery Units Into Ukraine, NATO Says (The New York Times) 08/22/2014
NATO: Russians Using Artillery Inside Ukraine (The Wall Street Journal) 08/22/2014
White House blasts Russian aid to rebel-held area as 'flagrant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty' (New York Daily News) 08/22/2014
Russian convoy prompts Western anger (BBC) 08/22/2014
Spot report UPDATE: Russian humanitarian aid trucks departed from the Donetsk Border Crossing Point without ICRC’s escort (OSCE) 08/22/2014
NATO Secretary General condemns entry of Russian convoy into Ukraine (NATO) 08/22/2014
NATO: Russia Just Significantly Escalated The Crisis In Ukraine (Business Insider) 08/22/2014
Under fire for aid move, Russia lashes out at Ukraine, Lithuania (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
UEFA will not recognise Crimean clubs in Russian competitions (Brisbane Times/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Plaques mark internment of Ukrainian immigrants during First World War (Calgary Herald) 08/22/2014
U.S. says Russia must pull convoy from Ukraine or face more sanctions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Extreme sportsman says he painted a Ukraine flag on Moscow skyscraper (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Russia's growing military presence in the Arctic a concern to Harper (Yahoo/CP) 08/22/2014
Ukraine: controversial Russian aid cargo is unloaded in Luhansk (Euronews) 08/22/2014
Merkel says will push for ceasefire on Ukraine visit (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
S&P, Dow weaker after Ukraine tension escalates (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Obama and Merkel voice alarm at Russian moves (Yahoo/AP) 08/22/2014
No surrender: Ukraine rebels confident despite losses (Yahoo/AFP) 08/22/2014
U.N. voices 'deep concern' about Russian aid convoy in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Merkel has 'great concerns' on Russian convoy entering Ukraine-spokesman (Reuters) 08/22/2014
White House calls on Russia to remove convoy from Ukraine (Reuters) 08/22/2014
U.S. urges Moscow to immediately withdraw convoy from Ukraine (Reuters) 08/22/2014
A 'Ukrainian Missile' Or A Failed Russian Space Launch? (RFE/RL) 08/22/2014
Lithuanian honorary consul 'brutally killed' in east Ukraine: Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius (The Economic Times) 08/22/2014
Pentagon condemns Russian movements into Ukraine (Washington Times) 08/22/2014
BREMMER: Putin Just Called Ukraine's Bluff (Yahoo/Business Insider) 08/22/2014
Pentagon Tells Russia to Get the Hell Out of Ukraine (Yahoo/The Wire) 08/22/2014
Foreign Minister: Lithuanian Consul Kidnapped and Murdered by Terrorists in Luhansk (Project Maidan) 08/22/2014
US, EU, NATO condemn Russian aid convoy move (NBC/AP) 08/22/2014
Russia Moves Artillery Units Into Ukraine, NATO Says [Latest report says Russian artillery is firing!] (The New York Times) 08/22/2014
Klitschko: Parade needed to raise patriotic spirit (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
First 34 KamAZ trucks of “Putin's convoy” cross Ukrainian border (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
Hackers show Putin middle finger through Ani Lorak website (Kyiv Post) 08/22/2014
What kind of gift will Merkel give Poroshenko on Ukrainian Independence Day? (EurActiv) 08/22/2014
US to react to unsanctioned convoy passage (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/22/2014
Yatsenyuk: 'Russia is not planning to conduct any humanitarian mission' (LIVE) (Kyiv Post) 08/22/2014
President of Ukraine: Ukraine offers Russia to return situation with humanitarian cargo to the framework of the international legal field (President.gov.ua) 08/22/2014
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry: "terrorists are shelling the convoy’s possible route with mortars" (UPDATES) (Kyiv Post) 08/22/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko condemns Russia for violating international law (Reuters) 08/22/2014
Russian Trucks Cross Border Without Assent of Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/22/2014
Terrorists shot down Mi-24 helicopter, crew dies (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
Russian media: All 280 Russian aid trucks cross Ukrainian border (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
Russia violates agreements on 'humanitarian convoy' - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
Russian convoy illegally crossed Ukraine's state border - Foreign Ministry (Ukrinform) 08/22/2014
Ukraine asks international community to condemn Russia's 'illegal actions' (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko condemns Russia for violating international law (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Moscow defies Kiev, orders aid convoy onto Ukrainian soil (Reuters) 08/22/2014
Russian aid trucks pass into Ukraine without Kiev consent, Red Cross escort (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Kremlin aware aid convoy started to move towards Ukraine's Luhansk - RIA (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Ukraine says Russian truck movement represents 'direct invasion' by Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Russian Convoy Begins Rolling Into Ukraine; Kyiv Decries 'Invasion' (RFE/RL) 08/22/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
Ukraine: Russian aid convoy is a 'direct invasion' (Yahoo/AP) 08/22/2014
Ukraine crisis: Russia aid convoy 'invades Ukraine' (BBC) 08/22/2014
Germany cautions Ukraine on reforms before Merkel visit (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/22/2014
CORRECTS: AP journalist: 1st trucks in Russian aid convoy driven into eastern Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/22/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of 'invasion' as aid trucks move in (Yahoo/AFP) 08/22/2014
Kiev says rebels downed army chopper, 2 crew killed (Yahoo/AFP) 08/22/2014
Kiev accuses Russia of 'direct invasion' over aid convoy (Yahoo/AFP) 08/22/2014
Interview: Economist Says Food Ban 'Certainly Against Russian Economic Interests' (RFE/RL) 08/22/2014
President to call on Putin to curb rebels (Ukrainian Journal) 08/22/2014
Poroshenko says he may announce Parliament dismissal as soon as Sunday (Ukrainian Journal) 08/22/2014
Economy minister quits, voicing criticism of government policy (Ukrainian Journal) 08/22/2014
Financial Times: Ukraine's worsening finances pose dilemma for IMF (Ukrainian Journal) 08/22/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 21 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/22/2014
Ukraine Suffers Heavy Losses in Counterattack by Pro-Russia Rebels (Wall Street Journal) 08/22/2014
Spot report by the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, 22 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/22/2014
President signs repressive ‘anti-terrorist’ laws (updated) (KHPG) 08/22/2014
Children deployed in Russia’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda (KHPG) 08/22/2014
Journalist could be blacklisted for not standing to Russian anthem (KHPG) 08/22/2014
Families of murdered hostages demand proper investigation (KHPG) 08/22/2014
'Ambiguous warfare' providing NATO with new challenge (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/21/2014
No Graffiti For You! Donetsk Rebels Are Holding Captive City’s Guerrilla Artist (Foreign Policy) 08/21/2014
Red Cross instructs Russian aid convoy (BBC) 08/21/2014
Surrounded Luhansk Is Under Near-Constant Barrage as Russia’s Aid Convoy Edges Closer to Ukraine (VICE News) 08/21/2014
Gazprom says Ukraine's unpaid gas bill tops $5 billion (Reuters) 08/21/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 20 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/21/2014
Editorial: On Ukraine, any bargain is a bad bargain (Washington Post) 08/21/2014
Ukraine Economy Minister Pavlo Sheremeta Resigns (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
23rd Annual Ukrainian Folk Festival celebrates heritage [Horsham, PA] (Daily Local News) 08/21/2014
Hitler and Putin: A Tale of Two Authoritarians. By Alexander J. Motyl (World Affairs Journal) 08/21/2014
Rebels Falter, but Russian Border Buzzes With Military Activity (The New York Times) 08/21/2014
Trapped in Luhansk (Kyiv Post) 08/21/2014
Germany Is Telling Ukraine To Back Off Crushing Pro-Russian Rebels Or Else Putin Will Get Mad (Business Insider) 08/21/2014
A Fast-Food Symbol of America Falls in Moscow (The New York Times) 08/21/2014
Kiev says Russian army vehicles seized as aid checks start (Yahoo/AFP) 08/21/2014
President: Elections are the best form of lustration (President.gov.ua) 08/21/2014
President of Ukraine: We will not let anyone call into question the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state (President.gov.ua) 08/21/2014
President: Ukraine strives for peace [about the upcoming meeting in Minsk] (President.gov.ua) 08/21/2014
PM: Cost of war effort hampering reforms (Ukrainian Journal) 08/21/2014
Residential neighborhoods in city of Donetsk hit by heavy shelling (Ukrainian Journal) 08/21/2014
Ukrainian warplane blown out of sky over rebel-held territory (Ukrainian Journal) 08/21/2014
Eastern war damages estimated at billions of dollars, says PM (Ukrainian Journal) 08/21/2014
Three Ukraine Refugees Killed While Trying to Flee Country's East (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
Russian Patriots Retaliate With Russian Flag on Moscow Skyscraper (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
Russian Lawmakers Want to Ban Artists Who Support Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
U.S. Embassy in Moscow Resumes Issuing Visas (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
McDonald's Raided By Russia's Food Watchdog Over 'Hygiene Complaints' (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
Crimeans Don't Miss Big Macs (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
Russia's Food Import Ban Sends Container Ships Home to Senders (The Moscow Times) 08/21/2014
Austria's Raiffeisen Bank Says Huge Russian Business Safe From Sanctions (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/21/2014
Ukrainian Independence Day Greeting [August 24, 1991] (UABA) 08/21/2014
Five Reasons Why This Weekend Might Be The Start Of The Endgame In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/21/2014
Explainer: Moscow's Food War With West Could Hurt Russia Most (RFE/RL) 08/21/2014
Ukrainian Checks Of Russian Aid Expected To Begin (RFE/RL) 08/21/2014
Russian Aid Trucks Poised At Border As Ukraine Toll Mounts (RFE/RL) 08/21/2014
Every nation has a natural right to live independently - Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk on the Independence Day of Ukraine (RISU) 08/21/2014
Church robbed in Lviv Diocese on the night of the Transfiguration (RISU) 08/21/2014
Roman Catholic Bishops published appeal on Independence Day of Ukraine (RISU) 08/21/2014
Bulgaria says it has ‘frozen’ South Stream, but pipes continue to arrive (EurActiv) 08/21/2014
Switzerland rejects requests from EU firms to bypass Russia’s food ban (EurActiv) 08/21/2014
Ukraine tightens the noose on separatists, civilian deaths reported (EurActiv) 08/21/2014
Ukraine: 19 troops killed fighting rebels near Donetsk (BBC) 08/21/2014
A 50 Billion Dollar Ghost Town – Sochi Six Months After Putin Games (Window on Eurasia) 08/21/2014
Ukrainian President Names Cemilev Plenipotentiary for Crimean Tatar Affairs [Dzhemilev] (Window on Eurasia) 08/21/2014
Yuri Verbytsky murder investigation concluded [+Yuri Verbytsky was the third EuroMaidan activist victim; first was Armenian Ukrainian +Serhiy Nigoyan, the second was Belarusian +Mikhail Zhyneuski] (KHPG) 08/21/2014
'Putin's convoy' may cross Ukraine border on Friday - Red Cross (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Poroshenko on parliament dissolution: This will happen on Independence Day (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Ukraine customs service begins clearance of Russian 'humanitarian convoy' (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Militants shot down Ukrainian Su-24M aircraft, pilots eject (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Security forces destroy two Russian Grad launchers and three tanks in Donbas (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Economic Development and Trade Minister Sheremeta confirms his resignation (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Ukraine was nine times shelled from Russia (Ukrinform) 08/21/2014
Fighting in Ukraine as aid convoy reaches customs (Yahoo/AP) 08/21/2014
CORRECTS: AP Journalist: 2 Red Cross jeeps cross into eastern Ukraine from Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/21/2014
Ukraine's economy minister announces resignation [Pavlo Sheremeta] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/21/2014
Ukraine's economy minister Sheremeta offers resignation (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/21/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko says will urge rebel withdrawal at meeting with Putin (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/21/2014
'Ambiguous warfare' providing NATO with new challenge (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/21/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko says he could dissolve parliament on Sunday (Reuters) 08/21/2014
Ukraine border guards begin checks on Russian aid trucks (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/21/2014
The Ukrainian Face Collector Launches an Exhibition in Kiev (The Daily Beast) 08/21/2014
Ukrainian govt troops take over much of Luhansk (Yahoo/AP) 08/20/2014
Annexation of Crimea Divides an Artist Colony Founded on Tolerance (The New York Times) 08/20/2014
Russia Is Pissed Off About the Defacing of Bulgaria’s Soviet-era Monuments (VICE News) 08/20/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 19 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/20/2014
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, for the period 13–19 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/20/2014
Are Ukraine's Leaders in League With Satanists? On Russian TV, Yes. The high-level 'conspiracy' to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Rossia 24 (The Atlantic) 08/20/2014
Kiev in U-turn over claim that 'Russian tanks, artillery and 1,200 fighters' had been deployed in Eastern Ukraine as evidence fails to materialise (Daily Mail) 08/20/2014
Dutch MH17 Investigators Seek Return to Ukraine Crash Site (Wall Street Journal) 08/20/2014
Putin's Kremlin Is a Fugitive From International Justice (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Op-ed: Open Borders Are Russia's Birthright (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Russia Suspends Operations at 4 McDonald's Restaurants in Moscow (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Russia's 12 Most Surreal Legislative Initiatives (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Moscow Children's Fashion Show Has 'Ukraine' Commit Suicide (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
American Volunteer Fighter 'Franko' Dies Fighting Separatists in Eastern Ukraine [+Mark Gregory Paslawsky] (The Wire) 08/20/2014
An American Voice on Ukraine’s Front Lines Goes Silent [+Mark Gregory Paslawsky, a.k.a bruce springnote @BSpringnote on Twitter] (The New York Times) 08/20/2014
The Only American Fighting for Ukraine Dies in Battle [+Mark Gregory Paslawsky] (VICE News) 08/20/2014
U.S. Army Vet Killed Fighting Pro-Russian Separatists In Ukraine [Codename 'Franko'; +Mark Gregory Paslawsky] (RFE/RL) 08/20/2014
Opinion: Putin's Soviet 'therapy' for Crimea. By Halya Coynash (Al Jazeera) 08/20/2014
Dutch museum perplexed over where to return borrowed Crimea gold (Los Angeles Times) 08/20/2014
Ukrainian Troops Press Rebels in Their Eastern Strongholds (The New York Times) 08/20/2014
Russia strangling Ukraine’s economy — Yatseniuk, Shlapak (Euromaidan Press) 08/20/2014
Ukraine rebel movement faces uncertain future (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Kuzio: Russian nationalism vs. Ukrainian nationalism [Calls scholars John-Paul Himka, Andreas Umland, Per Anders Rudling three of the 'gang of four'] (Euromaidan Press) 08/20/2014
Andreas Umland: I am in Kuzio's 'Gang of Four' pseudo-scholars ignoring Russian nationalism in Ukraine (Facebook) 08/20/2014
Fighting breaks out in center of Donetsk (Ukrainian Journal) 08/20/2014
Russians may soon cut gas supplies to Europe, says Ukrainian official (Ukrainian Journal) 08/20/2014
Ukrainians expect to lose 15% of grain crop due to fighting (Ukrainian Journal) 08/20/2014
Ukraine to auction off gas transportation system by year end (Ukrainian Journal) 08/20/2014
Ukraine warplane shot down as clashes kill dozens (Yahoo/AFP) 08/20/2014
Dutch museum to hold Crimean gold (Yahoo/AP) 08/20/2014
After food ban, Russia markets shrimp “from Belarus” (EurActiv) 08/20/2014
Punitive psychiatry used against Crimean ‘terrorist plot’ suspect? (KHPG) 08/20/2014
Beers, ducks and talk of war on Donetsk beach (Yahoo/AFP) 08/20/2014
Donetsk Cathedral Mosque Damaged, No Injuries (RISU) 08/20/2014
Ukraine crisis: What does the footage tell us? (BBC) 08/20/2014
Ukraine conflict: Fierce battle for town of Ilovaisk (BBC) 08/20/2014
Russia Must Federalize or Face Disintegration, Shtepa Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/20/2014
Ruslana - Appeal to All Ukrainians in the USA #IndependenceDayUkraine 2014 [FLASHMOB GATHERINGS at NYC Battery Park, Lincoln Memorial in Wash DC, Philadelphia City Hall: 7pm Friday, August 22] (VIDEO) (YouTube) 08/20/2014
Not Content to Let Minority Languages Die, Moscow is Actively Killing Them, Buryat Activist Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/20/2014
Remembrance of Victims of Stalinism and Nazism banned in Simferopol (KHPG) 08/20/2014
Abducted street artist released briefly, then imprisoned again (KHPG) 08/20/2014
Nadiya Savchenko’s defence hopes for a swap of prisoners (KHPG) 08/20/2014
Clashes kill 34 civilians in Ukraine's Donetsk region: official (Yahoo/AFP) 08/20/2014
Terrorists shell village in Donetsk region from Russian Grad (Ukrinform) 08/20/2014
Russian humanitarian aid still not cleared (Ukrinform) 08/20/2014
Independence Day will be intensely protected (Ukrinform) 08/20/2014
President and deputies of faction 'Batkivshchyna' discussed the prospects of ratification of the Association Agreement with the EU (President.gov.ua) 08/20/2014
Merkel Ukraine role mirrors rising German ambition (PA Herald Stndard/AP) 08/20/2014
Estonia says Finland, Russia meeting could undermine EU unity (Baltic Times) 08/20/2014
Ukraine Fight With Rebels Intensifies as Deaths Mount (Bloomberg) 08/20/2014
American Donbas Battalion member dies in fierce fighting near Donetsk [Mark Paslavsky, a.k.a Franko] (UPDATES) (Kyiv Post) 08/20/2014
Opinion: Showdown in Minsk (Deutsche Welle) 08/20/2014
Activists paint Moscow's 'Stalin Tower' with Ukraine colours...and then get arrested for it (Guardian) 08/20/2014
Stalin Tower Painted In Ukrainian Blue And Yellow (RFE/RL) 08/20/2014
Russian Climbers Could Face Years in Jail For Ukraine Flag on Stalinist Building (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Op-ed: Russia Is Trapped In 1991 (The Moscow Times) 08/20/2014
Four protesters fly Ukrainian flag from Stalin-era Moscow landmark (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Protesters plant Ukraine flag on Moscow skyscraper (Yahoo/AP) 08/20/2014
Ukraine conflict is draining economy, hampering reforms - PM Yatseniuk (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Ukraine asks IMF to combine two aid tranches for total of $2.2 billion: IFX (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Russia's MTS cuts full-year targets due to Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Russia economic funk ripples out through ex-Soviet states (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Street battles in eastern Ukraine town kill nine - ministry (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Insight - Ukraine rebel movement faces uncertain future (Reuters) 08/20/2014
Advancing Ukraine troops take fight to heart of pro-Moscow rebellion (Reuters) 08/20/2014
Ukraine maternity ward nurtures new life as the shells fall (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/20/2014
Maids, Crooks, And Working Girls: How Hollywood Portrays Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/20/2014
Journalists’ safety remains biggest media freedom challenge in Ukraine, says OSCE representative (OSCE) 08/20/2014
Rebel city: 34 killed in fighting in 24 hours (Yahoo/AP) 08/20/2014
Ukraine's rebel capital seeks ersatz normality [Donetsk] (Yahoo/AP) 08/20/2014
Dozens killed in Ukraine as army fights to shatter rebels (Yahoo/AFP) 08/20/2014
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault. The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin,. By John J. Mearsheimer (Foreign Affairs) 08/19/2014
The Anti-Nazi History of the Molotov Cocktail (Mashable) 08/19/2014
The Making of Vladimir Putin. By STROBE TALBOTT (Politico) 08/19/2014
So, Mr Putin, where are the tanks? Convoy of military transporters carrying tanks towards Ukraine border now seen returning empty (Daily Mail) 08/19/2014
Why Germany Won’t Get Real with Russia (New Eastern Europe) 08/19/2014
Ukrainian forces press attacks on rebel-held areas (Yahoo/AP) 08/19/2014
The Russians of Estonia: Twenty Years After (World Affairs Journal) 08/19/2014
Ukraine's secret weapon: Funding from the country's millionaires (CNN) 08/19/2014
Ukrainian and Russian Leaders Will Meet as Rebels Continue to Falter (New York Times) 08/19/2014
Russia, Iran and Egypt Heckle U.S. About Tactics in Ferguson (New York Times) 08/19/2014
In Russia, Scenes From Ferguson Are Played as Nothing Shocking: It’s America (New York Times) 08/19/2014
German Leader Emerges as Key Figure in Ukraine Talks (New York Times) 08/19/2014
Ukraine Seeks Swiss Help in Recovering Former Regime's Frozen Assets (Wall Street Journal) 08/19/2014
The Top Secret Family Life of Vladimir Putin (Newsweek) 08/19/2014
Plenty of Room at the Top of Ukraine’s Fading Rebellion (The New York Times) 08/19/2014
Putin's Achilles' Heel: Tighter Energy Sector Sanctions (Huffington Post) 08/19/2014
Crash in Oil Prices Deals Blow to Sanctions-Hit Russian Economy ['Russia has balanced its budget at $114 a barrel this year...(but prices are) falling well below $100 a barrel] (The Moscow Times) 08/19/2014
Op-ed: U.S. still has time to stake out a position of strength on Ukraine. What happens in Ukraine won't stay in Ukraine -- Obama needs to be unequivocal. By JOHN BOLTON (Los Angeles Times) 08/19/2014
How Russian State TV Linked Satanists To Ukraine's Leadership (RFE/RL) 08/19/2014
Donetsk's Guerrilla Separatists Kidnap the Ukrainian Guerrilla Artist Who Dared to Mock Them (Global Voices) 08/19/2014
Is the Kremlin's two-avenue 'diplomacy' in Ukraine paying off? (+video) (Christian Scientist Monitor) 08/19/2014
Photo: Mark Paslavsky, 55, was an American of Ukrainian decent who got Ukrainian citizenship so he could fight in the Donbas battalion. Mark Paslavsky was killed in Illyvisk on August 20th fighting Russian invaders. (Facebook) (Stop Putin's Aggression) 08/19/2014
EU ready to send three officials for Ukraine-EU-Eurasian Troika meeting in Minsk (Ukrinform) 08/19/2014
On August 26, meeting in the format Ukraine – EU – "Eurasian trio" to be held (President.gov.ua) 08/19/2014
Ukrainian troops inch closer to rebel city Donetsk (Yahoo/AP) 08/19/2014
Kremlin: Putin to meet with Ukrainian president and EU officials at Aug. 26 meeting in Minsk (Yahoo/AP) 08/19/2014
Germany's Merkel to visit Ukraine on Saturday (Yahoo/AP) 08/19/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin to Meet With Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko (Wall Street Journal) 08/19/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 18 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/19/2014
Ukraine crisis: 15 bodies found after strike on refugee convoy (The Guardian) 08/19/2014
Dozens reported killed fleeing fighting (Ukrainian Journal) 08/19/2014
Russian humanitarian aid ploy for military aggression, Turchynov says (Ukrainian Journal) 08/19/2014
Work at steel mills, chemical plants, halted by shell attacks (Ukrainian Journal) 08/19/2014
Ukraine to soon start building $1 billion Odessa LNG terminal (Ukrainian Journal) 08/19/2014
Ukraine-Belgium Davis Cup playoff to be in Estonia (Yahoo/AP) 08/19/2014
Ukraine says battles raging in heart of rebel-held Lugansk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/19/2014
Ukraine says battles raging in heart of rebel-held Lugansk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/19/2014
Chevron interested in Ukrainian gas network: report (Yahoo/AFP) 08/19/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko to visit Brussels on August 30 at EU's invitation - his website (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Residents flee center of east Ukrainian city of Donetsk after shelling: Reuters reporters (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Shooting erupts in center of Ukraine's Donetsk: Reuters reporter (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Junior rebel commander detained in east Ukraine - interior ministry (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Ukraine says fighting halts recovery of refugees' bodies (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
European Commission president, Ukraine president hold telephone talks (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Artillery fire heard on outskirts of rebel-held Ukrainian city (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Dutch review energy ties with Russia after MH17 crash (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Ukraine says 17 bodies recovered from shelled refugee convoy (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Ukraine's Poroshenko to attend Minsk talks with Putin, EU's Ashton (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Fighting underway in centre of rebel-held Ukrainian city of Luhansk - military (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Russian sanctions to hit Dutch exports by $400 million euros: stats office (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/19/2014
Merkel pledges military support to Baltic states (Euractiv) 08/19/2014
Russia Becoming a Dangerous Nation of Zhirinovskys, Levinson Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/19/2014
Russia Moves From 'Evil Empire' to 'Empire of Hatred,' Ukrainian Commentator Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/19/2014
Kremlin-backed militants introduce ‘death penalty’ and ‘military tribunals’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/19/2014
Truth about Beslan blocked (Window on Eurasia) 08/19/2014
Crimean ‘terrorist plot’ suspect in Russian psychiatric ward (Window on Eurasia) 08/19/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 183: Ukraine Fights to Retake Ilovaisk (The Interpreter) 08/19/2014
William Risch: Fighting Ukraine’s paper trail (Kyiv Post) 08/19/2014
Will revolution and war drive Ukraine's film making business? (Kyiv Post) 08/19/2014
Ukraine convoy attack: 'Bodies recovered' in Luhansk (BBC) 08/19/2014
Bulgaria suspends South Stream gas pipeline project (BBC) 08/19/2014
Kyiv Says Battle Moves Into Rebel Stronghold Of Luhansk (RFE/RL) 08/19/2014
Putin, Ukrainian President Poroshenko To Meet In Minsk Next Week (RFE/RL) 08/19/2014
Government forces clearing Ilovaisk of snipers (Ukrinform) 08/19/2014
Fate of almost 500 people kidnapped by terrorists still unknown. Over 1,000 people have been kidnapped in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions over the last five months. (Ukrinform) 08/19/2014
No comment from Kremlin on chances of Putin-Poroshenko bilateral Minsk meeting (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/19/2014
FIFA Could Exclude Two Russian Cities From World Cup 2018 (The Moscow Times) 08/19/2014
Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments (The Moscow Times) 08/19/2014
Op-ed: The Only Winner in Ukraine Is China (The Moscow Times) 08/19/2014
Space Cooperation With U.S. Not Affected by Ukraine, Russian Official Says (The Moscow Times) 08/19/2014
Merkel, Seeking an End to Conflict in Ukraine, Plans Trip to Kiev (The New York Times) 08/19/2014
Investors Raise Their Shields Against Russia (Wall Street Journal) 08/18/2014
Op-ed: Putin Is Replaceable (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
A new prelate for Ukraine The sound of eggshells cracking (The Economist) 08/18/2014
Ukraine's Revolutionaries Surrender to Corruption (BloombergView) 08/18/2014
Russian-Ukrainian dispute Museum: Where to put the gold in the Crimea ? (National Turk) 08/18/2014
Ukraine: Dozens killed in shelling of convoy (Yahoo/AP) 08/18/2014
Grief, relief as ravaged Ukrainian town rebuilds (Yahoo/AP) 08/18/2014
Donetsk queues for water as fighting shuts off supply (Yahoo/AFP) 08/18/2014
Russia pushes ahead with ruble free float plans (Yahoo/AFP) 08/18/2014
‘Novorossiya’ and the ‘Fifth Column’ Around the Kremlin: Novaya Gazeta Interview with Boroday (The Interpreter) 08/18/2014
Poroshenko confirms that Russia sent 1,200 fighters, new military hardware to insurgents in Ukraine (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Klimkin: Russia still wants to make war, not peace in Ukraine (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Right Sector and interior minister make up after publicly trading threats, accusations (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Government accuses insurgents of hitting a village, peaceful refugees with Grads (AUDIO) (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
SSU prevented assassinates in Poltava region. Terrorist group was detained - SSU Head report to President (SBU.gov.ua) 08/18/2014
Democrat Worries About 1930s-Style Appeasement in Ukraine [House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)] (CNS) 08/18/2014
Ukraine Resolution Depends on Fighting, Not Negotiations, Analysts Say (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Reindeer Meat to Replace Banned U.S. Chicken in Russia's Far East (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Rebel Strongholds Continue to Buckle in Eastern Ukraine (Yahoo/The Wire) 08/18/2014
US shouldn't pick war on Ukraine: McChrystal (+VIDEO) (CNBC) 08/18/2014
Fleeing Civilians ‘Burned Alive’ in Ukraine as Rebel Fighters Are Set to Cross the Border (VICE News) 08/18/2014
Russia Has Already Invaded Ukraine: Strobe Talbott (Huffington Post) 08/18/2014
Rebels Killed Dozens in Attack on Refugees, Ukraine Says (The New York Times) 08/18/2014
No solution to Ukraine in sight: Pros (+VIDEO) (CNBC) 08/18/2014
EU farmers handed €125 million to offset Russia sanctions (EurActiv) 08/18/2014
Putin Police Block Siberian March but Spread Siberian Message (Window on Eurasia) 08/18/2014
Dzhemiliev: Putin wants a meeting while holding my son hostage (KHPG) 08/18/2014
Russia’s FSB steps up its witch hunt for ‘extremists’ in Crimea (KHPG) 08/18/2014
Russian police come down heavy on Siberian federalization supporters (KHPG) 08/18/2014
Lviv volunteers help restore homes in Kramatorsk (KHPG) 08/18/2014
Ukrainians recapture portions of Luhansk (Ukrainian Journal) 08/18/2014
Foreign ministers return to Kiev, Paris, Moscow and Berlin after talks (Ukrainian Journal) 08/18/2014
Kiev protests Moscow attempts to annex Crimean nuke facilities (Ukrainian Journal) 08/18/2014
Grounds for sanctions against Russia remain valid, EU body decides (Ukrainian Journal) 08/18/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 17 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/18/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 182: Russian Aid To Enter Ukraine With Kiev’s Approval (The Interpreter) 08/18/2014
Turchynov urges world to stop Russian threat (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Germany not to provide military assistance to Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Fighting underway on outskirts of Luhansk and Donetsk (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Terrorists shot women and children near Luhansk - National Security and Defense Council (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Nine Ukrainian servicemen killed in past 24 hours (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Turchynov vows to ratify association agreement with EU soon (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Terrorists shell column of refugees in Luhansk region (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
'Putin's convoy' to enter Ukraine through Izvaryne in batches of 30 trucks (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Ukrainian troops liberate Yasynuvata (Ukrinform) 08/18/2014
Volunteer Yuriy Biryukov, newly appointed presidential adviser, keeps supporting army (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Firtash hires US lobbyist to clean his public record [] (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Governmental commissioner for combating corruption Chornovol resigns [activist and journalist Tatyana Chornovol/Chonovil was tortured by pro-Russian supporters of then Pres. Yanukovych; her husband was killed in action in the ATO against pro-Russian terrorists in Donetsk area August 10] (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Andy Hunder: Hand back Donetsk its original British name (Kyiv Post) 08/18/2014
Ukraine’s “Founding Fathers” Are Over a Thousand Years Old. By Andrea Chalupa (Medium.com) 08/18/2014
Sobbing rebels left in chaos. TRAVELLING across the no-man?s land between enemy lines towards Donetsk, away from the thundering artillery of the Ukrainian army, we drove straight into a reconnaissance unit of the Russian-backed separatist forces. (The Australian) 08/18/2014
'Dozens' Killed in Shelling of Refugee Convoy, Ukraine Says (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Siberian Activist Threatened With Severed Sheep's Head (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Rock Star Makarevich Slammed for Criticizing Russia's Role in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Donetsk Separatists Introduce Death Penalty for Treason (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Op-ed: Ukraine's Parliament Risks a Yeltsin Moment (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Merkel pledges NATO will defend Baltic member states (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Latvia asks Merkel for greater NATO presence in Baltic (Deutsche Welle) 08/18/2014
Dozens killed in attack on convoy, Ukraine says; rebels deny firing rocket (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Ukraine to pull out most troops out of Kosovo (St. Joseph News-Press/AP) 08/18/2014
Grief, relief as ravaged Ukrainian town rebuilds (St. Joseph News-Press/AP) 08/18/2014
Luhansk mayor freed after illegal arrest [by (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/18/2014
Ukraine plans to build LNG terminal near Odesa in nearest future – Turchynov (Interfax-Russia) 08/18/2014
Mysterious Russian Convoy to Ukraine Inspires Web Speculation (The Moscow Times) 08/18/2014
Convoy of Russian Trucks, Like Talks in Berlin, Remains Stalled Near Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/18/2014
OSCE media freedom representative concerned about ban on journalist from entering Crimea (OSCE) 08/18/2014
Europe shares rally as Ukraine fears ease, oil drops [was 'Asian stocks stall as Ukraine sours mood, dollar sags'] (Reuters) 08/18/2014
Kyiv Blames Separatists For Attack On Refugee Convoy; 'Many' Dead (RFE/RL) 08/18/2014
Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France Hold 'Difficult' Crisis Talks (RFE/RL) 08/18/2014
Lavrov Claims Humanitarian Convoy Cleared; Kyiv Defers To ICRC (RFE/RL) 08/18/2014
Russian Rocker Called a 'Traitor' For Performing for IDPs in Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/18/2014
Ukraine: rebels fire on civilian convoy (Yahoo/AP) 08/18/2014
Ukraine says rebels killed fleeing civilians as talks fail (Yahoo/AFP) 08/18/2014
No progress on Ukraine truce or peace talks: Russian FM (CNA/AFP) 08/18/2014
Russia looks for ways to soften impact of food import bans (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Poland says to speed up attack helicopter purchase due to Ukraine crisis (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Russian court jails opponents of Putin on rioting charges (Reuters) 08/18/2014
Rocket fire hits refugee convoy in Ukraine's east - rebels, army (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Rebels deny responsibility for shelling of east Ukraine refugee convoy (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Ukrainian forces press rebels in overnight fighting: military (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Russia says agreement reached on aid to Ukraine but not on ceasefire (Reuters) 08/18/2014
Europe shares rally as fear of Ukrainian escalation eases (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Russia may ban import of cars if West applies new sanctions: paper (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/18/2014
Separatists in Donetsk seize Monastery of the Sisters Servants (RISU) 08/18/2014
Head of the UGCC: 'Our Church in Donetsk and Luhansk is experiencing a time of martyrdom' (RISU) 08/18/2014
Head of Delegation of Ecumenical Patriarchate Did Not Concelebrate at Enthronement of Primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (RISU) 08/18/2014
Ukraine makes breakthrough against pro-Russia separatists (EurActiv) 08/18/2014
Ukraine Says Army Controls Center of a Rebel City [Luhansk] (The New York Times) 08/17/2014
Edmonton Ukrainian group protests Russia at U-20 World Cup (CBC) 08/17/2014
Julia Kukoba: World becomes more aware of Ukraine through its struggles (Kyiv Post) 08/17/2014
Op-ed: Ukraine's Struggle Endangers Its Democracy (The Moscow Times) 08/17/2014
Op-ed: Putin's One-Man Rule Favors Luck Over Logic (The Moscow Times) 08/17/2014
Sanctions Hurt Putin's Hold on Power (The Moscow Times) 08/17/2014
Ukraine troops recapture key building in rebel stronghold (France24/Reuters) 08/17/2014
CHICAGO'S UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CELEBRATES HERITAGE (ABC) 08/17/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 181: Ukraine’s Military Advances Despite Russian Support of Separatists (The Interpreter) 08/17/2014
Putin Regime Reviving Soviet-Style Anti-Semitism (Window on Eurasia) 08/17/2014
Moscow’s Pyrrhic Victory in Ukrainian Church Vote Weakens Patriarch Kirill (Window on Eurasia) 08/17/2014
In Crimea a Muslim to be persecuted for ‘extremist literature' (RISU) 08/17/2014
Kiev says separatists shoot down Ukrainian warplane (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Ukraine says its forces take police station in Luhansk, raise national flag (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Germany says new political impetus urgently needed in Ukraine crisis (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
NATO would respond militarily to Crimea-style infiltration - general (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Germany says far from political solution in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Ukraine says its troops make breakthrough in rebel stronghold (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Grave of Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera vandalised in Germany (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Belarussian oysters anyone? EU food trade looks to sidestep Russian ban (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Russia says 'certain progress' achieved at talks on Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/17/2014
Shelling brings terror to leafy suburbs of besieged Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/17/2014
Scramble to defuse Ukraine tensions as deal nears on aid convoy (Yahoo/AFP) 08/17/2014
Rebels Shoot Down Ukrainian Fighter Jet : Kiev (NDTV/AFP) 08/17/2014
Kiev accuses Russia of sending rocket launchers into Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/17/2014
Women bearing aid desperate to enter Ukraine as thousands flee (Yahoo/AFP) 08/17/2014
'Some progress' in difficult Ukraine, Russia talks: Germany (Thanh Nien/AFP) 08/17/2014
Ukraine says rebels shoot down fighter jet over Luhansk region (Yahoo/AP) 08/17/2014
Ukrainian, Russian officials to meet in Berlin (Yahoo/AP) 08/17/2014
Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city (Yahoo/AP) 08/17/2014
From The Fringes Toward Mainstream: Russian Nationalist Broadsheet Basks In Ukraine Conflict (RFE/RL) 08/17/2014
Kiev says separatists shoot down Ukrainian warplane (Reuters) 08/17/2014
Russia and Ukraine ministers to meet in Berlin for ceasefire talks (The Guardian) 08/17/2014
Ukraine Fighter Jet Shot Down: Separatists Shoot Down Government MiG-29: Report (International Business Times) 08/17/2014
Christopher Miller: Rebels driving a convoy of military vehicles including 3 tanks, anti-aircraft gun on transport into #Donetsk. pic.twitter.com/pfSVBxwIx4 (PHOTO 7:39 AM - 17 Aug 2014) (Twitter) 08/17/2014
Sick babies left behind in city caught in crossfire (The Times) 08/17/2014
Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city (Washington Post/AP) 08/17/2014
Op-ed: Why We Fight Wars. By Paul Krugman (The New York Times) 08/17/2014
Ukraine crisis: Rebel fighters 'trained in Russia' (BBC) 08/16/2014
Did Russia and Ukraine just start a war? What we know and don't know (Vox.com) 08/16/2014
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev review – an invaluable guide to the present crisis (The Guardian) 08/16/2014
Russian aid convoy waiting for security guarantees (Yahoo/AP) 08/16/2014
Russian convoy: US condemns 'provocative' activity (SBS/AAP) 08/16/2014
Merkel, Poroshenko say arms deliveries to Ukraine separatists must stop (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/16/2014
Biden, Poroshenko say Russia's actions not humanitarian in Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/16/2014
Ukraine foreign minister calls on NATO, EU to give military support (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/16/2014
Ukrainian Artist Still Missing After Lampooning Separatists (RFE/RL) 08/16/2014
Analysis: Ukraine attack on convoy sends tough message (USA Today) 08/16/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 15 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/16/2014
Repressive laws adopted in “fight against terrorism” (KHPG) 08/16/2014
Russian accused of hacking detained by U.S. (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/16/2014
Berlin meet could be first step to Ukraine-Russia peace summit: France (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/16/2014
West warns Russia over Ukraine as aid waits in limbo (Yahoo/AFP) 08/16/2014
Media: Poroshenko speaks with Putin by phone for one-and-a-half hours (Ukrinform) 08/16/2014
SBU to check Yefremov's and Akhmetov's involvement in financing separatism (Ukrinform) 08/16/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 180: The Battle For Lugansk Begins (The Interpreter) 08/16/2014
Slovakia launches test pumping of gas for Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/16/2014
Russian 'humanitarian aid' escorted by 1,000 disguised military - SBU (Ukrinform) 08/16/2014
Call to veto unconstitutional bill extending Prosecutor’s powers (KHPG) 08/16/2014
Mercenaries, Extremists Become Major Balkans Export (RFE/RL) 08/15/2014
Kiev says forces destroyed Russian armour inside Ukraine (Reuters) 08/15/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 14 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/15/2014
The Putin Military Doctrine. He wins by lying. Russia Ukraine humanitarian convoys: Another chance for Putin to play the West for a fool. By Masha Gessen (Slate.com) 08/15/2014
Putin's New Clothes. Russia’s president is nakedly invading Ukraine. Why won’t anybody say anything? (Foreign Policy) 08/15/2014
Ukraine claims conflict with pro-Russia rebels entering endgame (Guardian) 08/15/2014
A Brief Look at the Historical Parallels Between Ukraine’s Situation in 1918 and 2014 (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/15/2014
Stocks Erase Losses as Ukraine Conflict Boosts Oil Prices (Bloomberg) 08/15/2014
Ukraine, Eye on Convoy, Says It Hit Military Vehicles Coming From Russia (The New York Times) 08/15/2014
Ukraine's Forces Attack Russian Armoured Convoy (Sky News) 08/15/2014
Luhansk: The Other ‘People’s Republic’ in Eastern Ukraine (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/15/2014
White House criticizes Russia over Ukraine actions (Yahoo/AP) 08/15/2014
Operation transparency for Russian aid convoy (Yahoo/AFP) 08/15/2014
Donetsk rebel leader appeals for Russian aid [DNR's Alexander Zakharchenko] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/15/2014
White House: Russia has no right to send vehicles, persons into Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Merkel urges Putin in call to end stream of arms, fighters into Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill accused Greek-Catholics and Kyiv Patriarchate in aggression against canonical Orthodoxy in the Donbas (RISU) 08/15/2014
Strelkov/Girkin Demoted, Transnistrian Siloviki Strengthened in ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/15/2014
Russian Leadership Still Thinks It Can Defeat North Caucasus Insurgency by Building Ski Resorts (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/15/2014
Column of Russian military equipment breaks through to Luhansk - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Russia denies Kiev attacked Russian army column, says no troops crossed border (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Artillery destroys part of Russian military equipment that broke border (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Ukraine foreign minister says to meet Russian, German, French counterparts Sunday (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Red Cross mission officially accepting Ukrainian humanitarian aid (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/15/2014
Ukraine army 'destroyed' military vehicles that crossed from Russia (Straits Times/AFP) 08/15/2014
Ukrainian Artillery Destroys Part of Russian Military Convoy, Says Kiev (Newsweek/Reuters) 08/15/2014
President about humanitarian assistance for Luhansk: The entire world is with Ukraine now (President.gov.ua) 08/15/2014
“Corrective work” for peaceful protest in support of Mustafa Dzhemiliev (KHPG) 08/15/2014
Finland's Niinisto to Putin: sanctions bite both, let's discuss Ukraine (Reuters) 08/15/2014
Europe 'shot itself in foot' with Russia sanctions: Hungary PM (Reuters) 08/15/2014
French Politician to Build Historical Amusement Park in Crimea (The Moscow Times) 08/15/2014
Putin's Useful (British) Idiots (The Daily Beast) 08/15/2014
Shakeup In the Ukraine Rebel High Command. Several leaders of the rebellion are out, possibly because of the downing of MH17. This could be a prelude to peace talks—or intensified fighting. (The Daily Beast) 08/15/2014
'Billionaire' Kurchenko's allegedly corrupt empire serviced by army of 102 lawyers (Kyiv Post) 08/15/2014
Damage of infrastructure in the east is a massive blow to economy (INFOGRAPHIC) (Kyiv Post) 08/15/2014
Government reports progress in aid negotiations as more Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine (Kyiv Post) 08/15/2014
Russia 'must withdraw from Ukraine' (Daily Mail) 08/15/2014
Luhansk almost encircled (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/15/2014
Op-ed: Timothy Ash: West may be telling Ukraine to stand on its own against Russia (Kyiv Post) 08/15/2014
2 top rebels quit as rockets hit Donetsk (Ukrainian Journal) 08/15/2014
Parliament empowers Poroshenko to halt Russian gas transit to Europe (Ukrainian Journal) 08/15/2014
Customs Union invites Ukraine, US and EU to Minsk conference (Ukrainian Journal) 08/15/2014
Rada votes to allow EU and European companies in on natgas projects (Ukrainian Journal) 08/15/2014
Separatist Shuffle: Who's In, Who's Out Among The Donbas Rebels (RFE/RL) 08/15/2014
Donbas Battalion Denies Capturing Chechen Fighters In Eastern Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/15/2014
Russia lets Ukraine inspect aid convoy (Yahoo/AP) 08/15/2014
127 victims identified from Ukraine plane disaster (Yahoo/AP) 08/15/2014
NATO boss says alliance observed Russian incursion (Yahoo/AP) 08/15/2014
Poland puts on biggest military parade in years (Yahoo/AP) 08/15/2014
Obama to go to Estonia next month: White House (Yahoo/AFP) 08/15/2014
Obama to visit Estonia, meet with Baltic leaders in September (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Finnish president hopes Ukraine aid convoy can pave way for ceasefire (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Britain summons Russian ambassador over reports of military incursion into Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/15/2014
Half-empty or half-emptied? (KHPG) 08/15/2014
Russians see Ukrainians as puppets in West’s ‘anti-Russian policy’ (KHPG) 08/15/2014
Repressive media restrictions dropped in law on sanctions (KHPG) 08/15/2014
Russian aid convoy checked; military vehicles mass near Ukraine (Reuters) 08/15/2014
Putin's “convoy” slowed by absence of documents (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Ukraine checks Russian “humanitarian aid” at Izvaryne checkpoint (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
ATO headquarters confirms invasion of Russian technology in Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Column of Russian military equipment breaks through to Luhansk - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
More than 100 Ukrainian law enforcers in captivity - Poroshenko (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Terrorists shelling Khartsyzsk from Grad rocket launchers (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Ukrainian humanitarian aid arrives in Luhansk region (Ukrinform) 08/15/2014
Ukraine crisis 'a loser' for Putin (Deutsche Welle) 08/15/2014
Has the Ukraine war entered the realm of science fiction? (AUDIO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/15/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 179: Russian Build-Up Continues At Border As Armour Enters Ukraine (The Interpreter) 08/15/2014
Ukraine crisis: BBC finds Russian aid trucks 'almost empty' (VIDEO) (BBC) 08/15/2014
Rosneft requests $42bn loan from Russian government (BBC) 08/15/2014
What's in Russian aid convoy to Ukraine? Border officials begin to find out (Christian Science Monitor) 08/15/2014
Russian Convoy Awaits Clearance at Ukraine Border (The Wall Street Journal) 08/15/2014
OSCE Project Co-ordinator, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service produce videos to raise awareness about dangers of explosive items (OSCE) 08/15/2014
NATO accuses Moscow of escalating Ukraine conflict (Reuters) 08/15/2014
Amid fears of a Russian invasion, Ukrainians keep pushing for political reform (GlobalPost) 08/15/2014
Q&A: Moscow City Vies for Investors, Despite Ukraine Tensions (The Moscow Times) 08/14/2014
Kremlin Mutes Putin's Big Crimea Speech (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Daytime shelling leaves several dead in downtown Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Tatiana's Chornovols husband Mykola Berezovyis funeral in Borispol (Demotix) 08/14/2014
Civilians Caught In Crossfire: Safer to stay home or leave? (Kyiv Post) 08/14/2014
New Ukraine Orthodox Leader Signals Continued Church Divide. Ukrainians' Traditional Loyalty to Moscow Patriarch is Strained by His Close Tie to Kremlin (Atlantic Council) 08/14/2014
Watching For Putin's Plan 'B' in Ukraine. With Kremlin's Proxy War Stumbling, Kyiv and West Guard Against 'Humanitarian Intervention' (Atlantic Council) 08/14/2014
Eastern Ukraine’s museums told to hide their collections (The Art Newspaper) 08/14/2014
Power in the Kremlin Comes With a Price (The Moscow Times) 08/14/2014
As Crimea Braces For Billions in Development Funds, Russia's Other Regions Take a Back Seat (The Moscow Times) 08/14/2014
In Yalta, Putin Opposes Russian Politicians Clamoring for War [BRAMA: Will his next speech be to concede to the calls for war?] (The Moscow Times) 08/14/2014
Russian 'Humanitarian' Convoy Goes Eye To Eye With Ukrainian Tanks (Forbes) 08/14/2014
The Nation's Stephen F. Cohen Denies Existence of Ukraine (New York Magazine) 08/14/2014
Russian 'Aid' Trucks Near Separatist-Controlled Ukrainian Border Accompanied By Military Vehicles (The Wire) 08/14/2014
Ukraine crisis sends NATO 'back to basics' (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Why Ukrainian politicians keep beating each other up (+VIDEO) (Washington Post) 08/14/2014
Serbian mercenaries fighting in eastern Ukraine (Deutsche Welle) 08/14/2014
Aid convoy stops short of border as Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine. Armoured personnel carriers and support vehicles cross the border, while the 280-truck convoy comes to a halt separately (The Guardian) 08/14/2014
Russian armoured vehicles and military trucks cross border into Ukraine (+VIDEO) (Daily Telegraph) 08/14/2014
Two Russians involved in DPR terrorist activity detained while trying to leave Ukraine (+video) (Security Service of Ukraine) 08/14/2014
Ukraine, Russia parry over Russian aid convoy (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Under artillery fire, Ukraine rebels switch their leaders (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Ukrainian [pro-Russian] hackers claim attack on Polish websites (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
The Vanguard of Russia’s New Foreign Policy (The Interpreter) 08/14/2014
Putin to Decide Next Moves in Standoff With West Over Ukraine (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/14/2014
Ukraine Taking Drastic Measures to Diminish the Risk of an ‘Odessa People’s Republic’ (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/14/2014
About 10 Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate switched to Kyiv Patriarchate in 2014 (RISU) 08/14/2014
Putin tones down rhetoric on Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Rebel forces unravel as Ukraine military cuts off key stronghold (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Ðîñ³éñüê³ ÁÒÐ-è â'¿õàëè â Óêðà¿íó ó íàñ íà î÷àõ - çàõ³äí³ æóðíàë³ñòè / Russian APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers) have moved into Ukraine - Western journalists (Voice of America) 08/14/2014
Poland knows about Russian ‘humanitarian convoys’. It didn’t let one in. (KHPG) 08/14/2014
Ukraine LiveBlog Day 178: Russian Aid Convoy on the Move Again (The Interpreter) 08/14/2014
Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine - Thematic report: Internal displacement in Ukraine [PDF] (OSCE) 08/14/2014
Russian Convoy Rolling Again Toward Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/14/2014
Ukraine: Russian aid convoy cynical move (Ukrainian Journal) 08/14/2014
Kiev warns of growing risk of Russian gas supply disruption to Europe (Ukrainian Journal) 08/14/2014
Russians extend import bans to Ukrainian-made vodka and beer (Ukrainian Journal) 08/14/2014
Ukraine to start testing Slovakian route for European gas supplies (Ukrainian Journal) 08/14/2014
Putin's Ukraine gamble hastens exodus of Russian money and talent (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Opinion: Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and Gaza are falling apart and John Kerry’s not helping (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Putin sounds conciliatory note on visit to annexed Ukraine region (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Global stocks rise on Putin comments, bonds yields fall (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Finnish president to raise Ukraine at meeting with Putin (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Shells hit central Donetsk, Russian aid convoy heads towards border (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Ukraine approves law on sanctions against Russia (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Ukraine crisis sends NATO 'back to basics' (Reuters) 08/14/2014
President approved ratification of the Agreement with Japanese Government on the loan of up to JPY 10 billion for the support of economic reforms (President.gov.ua) 08/14/2014
Ukrainian part of international humanitarian assistance departed to Luhansk (President.gov.ua) 08/14/2014
Petro Poroshenko continued consultations with Joseph Biden (President.gov.ua) 08/14/2014
Presidents of Ukraine and Finland negotiated geopolitical context of developments in the Donbas (President.gov.ua) 08/14/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 13 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/14/2014
Ukraine Sends Its Own Aid Convoy To Separatist-Held East (VIDEO) (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Ukraine Passes Law On Russia Sanctions, Gas Pipelines (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Putin: Russia Will Do Its Utmost To Stop Bloodshed In Ukraine [BRAMA: ...which it shouldn't have started in the first place.] (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Ukraine Separatists In Seeming Disarray Amid Rumors Of Strelkov's Demise (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Hacked Twitter Feed Has Medvedev Resign, Mock Putin (RFE/RL) 08/14/2014
Nationalist gets punched in Ukrainian parliament [Oleh Lyashko] (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Ukraine claims to take town on Russian aid route (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Photo: Ukraine's Anna Titimets, center, clears a hurdle in her 400m hurdles semifinal during the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Slovak PM critical of Ukraine for sanctions (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with acting head of Crimea Sergei Aksyenov in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Putin traveled to Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized from Ukraine in March, where he was to chair a session of his Security Council later Wednesday. A meeting with Putin's entire Cabinet and most Russian lawmakers was scheduled for Thursday. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service) (Yahoo/AP) 08/14/2014
Ukraine rebel military chief quits: separatists [Igor Strelkov] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Russian convoy rolls on towards Ukraine as fighting intensifies (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Oil prices in fresh falls (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Putin says Russia should not 'fence itself off' from West (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Shelling kills 22 in Ukraine's rebel-held Lugansk: official (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Ukraine sending own aid convoys to war-torn east (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
Putin says many European leaders want to end sanctions standoff (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Slovak gas pipeline to Ukraine to start tests on Aug 16 (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Slovak PM warns 'meaningless' Russia sanctions will jeopardize EU economy (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Leading Ukraine separatist military commander Strelkov resigns (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Russia says talking to Ukraine about sending aid convoy to east Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Swiss parliament cancels visit by Putin ally on EU sanctions list (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
EU seeks to take sting out of Russia food ban (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Putin says Russia should aim to sell energy in roubles (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Putin says Russian military to set up a task force in Crimea (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Malaysia declares Aug 22 national day of mourning for MH17 victims (Reuters) 08/14/2014
Leading Ukrainian separatist says he is stepping down [Valery Bolotov] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/14/2014
Mercenaries of so-called Donetsk People’s Republic seize Protestant church in Donetsk (RISU) 08/14/2014
Slovakia grumbles as EU begins crisis Russia food ban talks (EurActiv) 08/14/2014
Ukraine crisis: Rebel military chief Strelkov 'quits' [Igor Girkin - known as Strelkov] (BBC) 08/14/2014
Putin has Replaced ‘Old Institutionalist Consensus’ with New Ideologically Homogenized Elite, Morozov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/14/2014
Putin’s Visit Seeks to Legitimate Russia’s Illegal Occupation of Crimea, Ukrainian Political Scientist Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/14/2014
Putin of the 2000 Kursk Disaster is the Putin of Today (Window on Eurasia) 08/14/2014
Moscow Hopes to Use Soft Power to Influence Intellectuals Abroad and Thus Defend Itself (Window on Eurasia) 08/14/2014
Serious failings seen in new ‘lustration’ bill (KHPG) 08/14/2014
Russian Prime Minister's Twitter Account Gets Hacked (Mashable) 08/14/2014
In the rebel-held town of Donetsk locals speak about the damage done to their homes and property. The locals refer to the indiscriminate nature of the Ukrainian army's shelling, as well as the separatists seeming inability to protect them. (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/14/2014
Russian fighter planes cruising around Ukrainian border (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Filaret: We will receive everyone who withdraws from Moscow patriarchate (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Russia supplying terrorists with satellite stations - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
80% of occupied territories in Donbas reclaimed from terrorists - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Luhansk completely besieged - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Red Cross sends envoy to Moscow, Kyiv to discuss 'Putin's convoy' (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Putin confesses to using army to annex Crimea (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Ukraine already sends over 250 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donbas - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
RADA PASSES SANCTIONS LAW (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Activists block off Hrushevskoho Str., demand lustration (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
9 Ukrainian servicemen killed in Donbas over past 24 hours (Ukrinform) 08/14/2014
Donetsk rocked by heavy shelling (Al Jazeera) 08/14/2014
Igor Strelkov: mysterious Russian who led Ukraine rebels (Yahoo/AFP) 08/14/2014
In phone call with President, Ban expresses ‘increasing concern’ about Ukraine crisis (United Nations) 08/14/2014
Russia's Mistral Warships Won't Have French Weapons (The Moscow Times) 08/13/2014
‘Criminal in the Kremlin’: An Interview with Professor Walter Clemens. By Alexander J. Motyl (World Affairs Journal) 08/13/2014
3rd 'Gas War' Looming Between Russia, Ukraine, EU (The Moscow Times) 08/13/2014
Russia’s Donetsk Proxies Anticipate Ukrainian Siege (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/13/2014
Convoy Said to Pause at Russian Base as Questions Persist (The New York Times) 08/13/2014
Soldier Whose Instagram Selfies Appeared To Show Him In Ukraine Says Russian Army Is Discharging Him (Buzzfeed) 08/13/2014
Risk of War 'Higher Than Ever' as Russian Convoy Nears Ukraine (Mashable) 08/13/2014
Russian Energy Giant Hires DC Lobbyists To Target US Natural Gas Exports (Daily Caller) 08/13/2014
Russian convoy vanishes on road to Ukraine (Daily Telegraph) 08/13/2014
This Map Of US And Russian Arms Sales Says It All (Yahoo/Business Insider) 08/13/2014
Ukraine Taps Volunteers Fueled by Anger, Bravado. Motley Battalions Include Some Fighters With Checkered Pasts (The Wall Street Journal) 08/13/2014
Russian aid convoy heads for east Ukraine (Ukrainian Journal) 08/13/2014
Rada measure would empower prez to ban Russian gas transit to Europe (Ukrainian Journal) 08/13/2014
Ukrainians move to get sanctions against Russian soccer teams (Ukrainian Journal) 08/13/2014
At least 21 miners injured after Donetsk region mine explodes (Ukrainian Journal) 08/13/2014
Twelve Ukrainian nationalist fighters killed in separatist ambush (Reuters) 08/13/2014
Belarus and the ‘End of Peace’ in Europe (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/13/2014
New Sanctions Bill Raises Free-Press Fears In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/13/2014
In Brighton Beach. By Peter Pomerantsev (London Review of Books) 08/13/2014
Estonian PM: Biggest sanctions losers will be ordinary Russian consumers (EurActiv) 08/13/2014
As the Key Battle Looms, a Report from Ukraine's Front Lines (The Daily Beast) 08/13/2014
Hot Issue – Lies, Damned Lies and Russian Disinformation (Jamestown Foundation) 08/13/2014
Comment of Press Secretary of the President of Ukraine Svyatoslav Tsegolko on the organization of humanitarian assistance for Ukrainian Luhansk (President.gov.ua) 08/13/2014
The UN is ready to engage in coordination of the international humanitarian assistance for Ukraine (President.gov.ua) 08/13/2014
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, for the period 6–12 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/13/2014
Camp for Russian 'humanitarian aid' in Kharkiv region dismantled, media reports say (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
Any convoys without Red Cross mandate viewed as aggressive forces - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
The Chaos Convoy. The Red Cross has no idea what 280 Russian trucks making their way to the Ukrainian border are carrying. Is Putin's "humanitarian" mission a Trojan horse? (Foreign Policy) 08/13/2014
Putin to try to stage armed coup in Ukraine, defence minister's advisor says (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
Ukraine LiveBlog Day 177: Russian Aid Convoy Approaches Ukrainian Border (The Interpreter) 08/13/2014
Putin delays payment for French Mistral warships (EUObserver) 08/13/2014
Defence of Crimean Tatar rights vital for struggle to return Crimea (KHPG) 08/13/2014
Kremlin-backed militants seize parents of a local journalist (KHPG) 08/13/2014
Journalist Dmytro Potekhin seized by militants (KHPG) 08/13/2014
Sweeping power to crush freedom of speech for reasons of national security? (KHPG) 08/13/2014
‘Siberian Federalization’ Idea Spreads to Kaliningrad and Kuban (Window on Eurasia) 08/13/2014
Russian Occupation Authorities in Crimea to ‘Protect’ Smallest Nations While Repressing Larger Ones (Window on Eurasia) 08/13/2014
Ukraine crisis: Russian aid convoy sits and waits (BBC) 08/13/2014
Russia Carefully Weighs its Options in Ukraine (Euractiv) 08/13/2014
Showdown looms as Red Cross shuns Russian aid convoy (Euractiv) 08/13/2014
Ukraine Crisis Hardens Germany Against Russia, an Old Partner (The New York Times) 08/13/2014
Graphic video shows Right Sector fighters killed by Kremlin-backed militants; Yarosh vows revenge (VIDEO) (Kyiv Post) 08/13/2014
Kyiv Warnings Urgent As Russian Convoy Nears Border (RFE/RL) 08/13/2014
Evidence Suggests Weapons Continue to Cross Into Ukraine From Russia (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine's Right Sector Pledges Revenge After 12 Die in Ambush (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ordinary Ukrainians become unlikely warriors (Yahoo/AP) 08/13/2014
The War Breaks The Spine of Ukraine’s Economy. By Maxim Eristavi (Medium.com) 08/13/2014
Unity March - New York at Grand Army Plaza (W 59th St, New York, New York 10019) 2:00pm Saturday, August 16 (Facebook) 08/13/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 12 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/13/2014
Russian Aid Convoy Held at Border (Project Maidan) 08/13/2014
Ukraine crisis death toll doubles in two weeks to August 10: U.N. [Nearly 5,000 have been wounded to date] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine accuses Russia of cynicism over convoy; death toll rises sharply (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Twelve Ukrainian nationalist fighters killed in separatist ambush (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine Calls Russian Aid Convoy Act of Cynicism (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine conflict: Under siege in Luhansk (BBC) 08/13/2014
Russia suddenly changes route of 'humanitarian aid convoy' to Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
Red Cross does not know what Putin brings to Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
'Putin's convoy' not to be let into Kharkiv region - Avakov (Ukrinform) 08/13/2014
Wellmann: 'Trust in Russia has reached rock bottom' (Deutsche Welle) 08/13/2014
UEFA: No case for Russia yet despite Crimea games (Yahoo/AP) 08/13/2014
Ukraine-bound Russian convoy stuck amid bickering [BRAMA: 'bickering'? Really?] (Yahoo/AP) 08/13/2014
EU's Ashton ready to call special meeting on Iraq, Ukraine (Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine says will not let 'Putin's' convoy onto its territory (Yahoo/AFP) 08/13/2014
Russia convoy rolls towards Ukraine despite Kiev warning (Yahoo/AFP) 08/13/2014
On Russia's border with Ukraine, fighters and military gear move freely (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Russian food safety watchdog says bans certain alcohol imports from Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Russia's richest tycoon lowers stake in vast empire... 'not in response to any threat of Western sanctions' (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Russia calls 'absurd' suspicions aid to Ukraine is cover for invasion. Foreign Ministry criticised Australia for voicing such fears. (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine's Naftogaz warns of possible gas transit disruptions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/13/2014
Ukraine Set To Receive Humanitarian Aid From Russia, But To What End? (Forbes) 08/12/2014
Ukraine Crisis Takes Toll on Germany’s Economy, Powerhouse of the Eurozone (The New York Times) 08/12/2014
Ukrainian Troops Retreat From Russian Border, Leaving 100 Kilometers Open to Invasion (The Daily Beast) 08/12/2014
Russian aid trucks leave for eastern Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/12/2014
Australia's Abbott: Ukraine crash was murder (Yahoo/AP) 08/12/2014
Ukraine says humanitarian mission will be led by Red Cross and has blessing of US, Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/12/2014
Anger at army as small town near Ukraine rebel hub smoulders (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
US urges border check for Russia 'aid' convoy (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
Tennis - Israel and Ukraine stripped of Davis Cup home ties (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
'Grave concerns' over Russian aid to Ukraine gambit: Hollande (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
US demands justice for 'unconscionable crime' of MH17: Kerry (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
Australia, Dutch vow justice for MH17 victims (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
Ukraine sets terms for Russian aid as convoy heads to border (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
Russia says to send aid to Ukraine despite West's warnings; Russian aid convoy to Ukraine 'won't have military escort': Kremlin (Yahoo/AFP) 08/12/2014
Russia Could Invade Ukraine On Multiple Fronts If Putin Chose (Business Insider) 08/12/2014
Aug. 12, Ukraine army seizes 30 Russian paratroopers in Donbas (ZIK) 08/12/2014
Opinion: Putin Gets In the ‘Aid’ Game. Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on how the Russian strongman is using humanitarian aid to Ukraine as a cover to escalate fighting and boost his popularity. (VIDEO) (The Wall Street Journal) 08/12/2014
Yanukovych extended special privileges to Yushchenko (Euromaidan Press) 08/12/2014
Russia Says To Hand Over Aid Convoy To ICRC In Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
John Kerry, Secretary of State (Sydney, Australia): Remarks With Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, and Australian Minister of Defense David Johnston (State.gov) 08/12/2014
Joint Communique AUSMIN 2014. Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop, Minister for Defence Senator David Johnston, Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met on 12 August in Sydney for the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) (State.gov) 08/12/2014
War Leaves Scars in Ukrainian Town Once Held by Insurgents. Some Residents First Welcomed Pro-Russia Militants, But Then Lost Heart (Wall Street Journal) 08/12/2014
Geopolitical Football Engulfs Top Teams in Russia. Amid Ukraine Crisis, Fear of Vladimir Putin Extends to Soccer (New York Times) 08/12/2014
Ukraine's Currency at All-Time Low (Wall Street Journal) 08/12/2014
Peter and Caesar: Is Pope Francis Shifting the Vatican’s Worldview? [The Vatican has also gone easy on Putin over Ukraine...] (World Affairs Journal) 08/12/2014
Russian troops in 'humanitarian' mission (Ukrainian Journal) 08/12/2014
Obama backs Ukraine call for Red Cross humanitarian mission to Luhansk (Ukrainian Journal) 08/12/2014
Donetsk residents face artillery fire, water and power shortages (Ukrainian Journal) 08/12/2014
Interior ministry, prosecutor office to head stolen funds commission (Ukrainian Journal) 08/12/2014
OSCE representative calls on Ukrainian authorities to drop legislative provisions endangering media freedom and free flow of information (OSCE) 08/12/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 11 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/12/2014
Ukraine conflict: Russian aid or Trojan Horse? (BBC) 08/12/2014
Being Pro-West Doesn't Mean Being Anti-Russian (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Opinion: Putin Needs an 'Off-Ramp' for Ukraine's Crisis (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Russia's Presidential Staff Buys a Million Bottles of European Wine (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Russia Won't Pay for French Mistral Warships Until Second Delivered (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Russian View: Ukraine Is Safe From a Moscow Invasion (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Opinion: Sanctions Will Hurt Russia's Rearmament Plans (The Moscow Times) 08/12/2014
Russian Inflight Announcements Latest Front In War Of Words With Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Russian Humanitarian Aid? Past Recipients Say There's No Such Thing (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Russian 'Humanitarian Aid': What We Know And Don't Know So Far (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Wary U.S. Stresses Kyiv's Terms For Russian 'Humanitarian' Mission (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Do Trolls Matter? (RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Op-ed: Food import ban means Russia is fully at war with the West. By Masha Gessen (Washington Post) 08/12/2014
4 Times Russia Used The Pretext Of Assistance To Invade Neighbors (Business Insider/RFE/RL) 08/12/2014
Money of arrested former NBU head found in European banks [Borys Prykhodko] (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/12/2014
Ukraine's victims of war (INFOGRAPHIC) (Kyiv Post) 08/12/2014
Ukraine will not allow Russia to escort aid across border (Kyiv Post) 08/12/2014
Russian soldiers brag on Internet about repainting 300 KAMAZ trucks to carry aid (Kyiv Post) 08/12/2014
A Russian Convoy Carrying Aid to Ukraine Is Dogged by Suspicion. A gift horse or a Trojan horse? (The New York Times) 08/12/2014
Ukraine Steps Up Assault of Rebel City [Donetsk] (The New York Times) 08/12/2014
Ukraine may block Russian humanitarian aid convoy (BBC) 08/12/2014
For Second Time in a Century, Russia has Decided to Go Against the ‘Winds of History,’ Pastukhov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/12/2014
FIFA Could Strip Russia of 2018 World Cup for Illegal Inclusion of Crimean Clubs in Russian Leagues (Window on Eurasia) 08/12/2014
Turkic Peoples Should Back Putin as the Mongol Khan of Today, Kazakh Activist Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/12/2014
Kremlin-backed militants’ resort to wholesale and merciless hostage-taking (KHPG) 08/12/2014
Siberian march in defence of the Constitution also banned (KHPG) 08/12/2014
MPs told it’s money that stops them changing electoral law (KHPG) 08/12/2014
Russian Military Rehearses Ukraine Peacekeeping Operation (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/12/2014
Moscow’s Reinforced Team in Donetsk Picks Local Figurehead Leader (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/12/2014
A Ukrainian murder mystery ensnares a church in former rebel stronghold. That pro-Russia separatists kidnapped and murdered four members of a Pentecostal church in Slaviansk seems sure. But very little else about the incident is. (Christian Science Monitor) 08/12/2014
In Memory of Ian Fleming: James Bond Through the Decades [See 'On His Majesty's Secret Service — by Tony Leliw': http://www.brama.com/news/press/2003/12/031203leliw_sidneyreilly-jamesbond.html] (Mashable) 08/12/2014
Ukrainian Forces Battle Separatists Near Donetsk (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/12/2014
Russia Is Bringing Aid to Ukraine's Border Amid Trojan Horse Fears (VICE News) 08/12/2014
Red Cross: We 'want to follow our procedures' [The Red Cross's plan to coordinate the supply of aid to eastern Ukraine has been complicated by Russia's dispatch of a relief convoy.] (Deutsche Welle) 08/12/2014
Ukraine's Avakov insists Russian convoy won't be allowed in (Deutsche Welle) 08/12/2014
Russia's Suspicious Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine Separatists. Is Moscow's aid convoy to eastern Ukraine the real thing, or a Trojan horse preparing the way for more war? Many Russians think it’s a trick. (The Daily Beast) 08/12/2014
Compelling Evidence That Russia’s Putin And Egypt’s Sisi Are Actually The Same Person. Think about it. (Buzzfeed) 08/12/2014
Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross (Yahoo/AP) 08/12/2014
Ukraine says will deny access to Russian aid (Yahoo/AP) 08/12/2014
Ambassador Brzezinski's remarks at the US Embassy Sweden Independence Day event held in Almedalen on Gotland, Sweden (YouTube) 08/11/2014
Russia’s top 100 lies about Ukraine (The Examiner) 08/11/2014
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a phone conversation with President of the United States Barack Obama (President.gov.ua) 08/11/2014
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida says US should arm Ukraine against rebels (Pensacola News Journal) 08/11/2014
Ukraine: Russia Has Massed 45000 Troops On Joint Border (Huffington Post/Reuters) 08/11/2014
EU and US warn Russia against 'humanitarian' invasion of Ukraine (EUobserver) 08/11/2014
Russia to send humanitarian convoy into Ukraine in spite of warnings (The Guardian) 08/11/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 hrs, 10 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/11/2014
Ukraine Conflict Puts Culture in Crossfire (New York Times) 08/11/2014
Ukraine may force changes in Russian gas transit to Europe (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/11/2014
Opinion: New Energy Sources: How To Make Ukraine More Secure Without Using U.S. Military Forces (Forbes) 08/11/2014
OSCE representative calls for immediate release of missing [Rossiya Segodnya] photojournalist in eastern Ukraine (OSCE) 08/11/2014
Yen Falls as Russia Seeks Ukraine-Rebel Talks; Dollar Hold Gains (Bloomberg) 08/11/2014
Russia's Food Ban Is High-Risk, Low-Reward (The Moscow Times) 08/11/2014
Husband of Kiev Revolution Hero Killed in Battle in Ukraine [Tetyana Chornovol] (Mashable) 08/11/2014
Sevastopol's Olympic-Sized Take On Ukraine: Bikers, Ballet, And Swastikas (RFE/RL) 08/11/2014
Ukraine, Red Cross to lead humanitarian effort with Russia to Luhansk Oblast (UPDATE) (Kyiv Post) 08/11/2014
EU tries to limit damage from Russian food embargo (Euractiv) 08/11/2014
Ukraine and Russia 'agree' to aid mission to Luhansk (BBC) 08/11/2014
Putin Sanctions Making Entrepreneurs ‘Enemies of the Regime,’ Inozemtsev Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/11/2014
Under Putin, Russia has Become ‘a Land of Potemkin Hospitals’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/11/2014
South Caucasus Countries Calculating Impact of an Independent Kurdistan (Window on Eurasia) 08/11/2014
West Doesn’t Have a Strategy in Ukraine, Pastukhov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/11/2014
Odessa 'Massacre' Propaganda vs. the Facts (KHPG) 08/11/2014
Dangerous silence over police role in Odessa May 2 events (KHPG) 08/11/2014
Russian censor will not be allowed to block Glavkom (KHPG) 08/11/2014
Kazakhstani Cossacks in Media Spotlight Because of Ukraine Crisis (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/11/2014
Putin Picks the Worst of All Bad Choices (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/11/2014
Transnistria-Type Scenario Looming in Ukraine’s Donbas (Part Two) (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/11/2014
Ukrainian troops close in on Donetsk's rebels, Iraq says #IS slaughtered hundreds of Yazidis and more. (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/11/2014
Next evidence of the RF servicemen involvement into combat operations on the territory of Ukraine were received (SBU) 08/11/2014
Terrorist group was detained in Donetsk region (SBU) 08/11/2014
Russia to send humanitarian convoy into Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/11/2014
Dutch push Ukraine plane disaster inquiries (Yahoo/AP) 08/11/2014
Inmates escape shelled high-security jail in Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/11/2014
Russia urges 'humanitarian' mission as Ukraine rebel bastion pounded (Yahoo/AFP) 08/11/2014
Giving birth under fire in a Donetsk hospital cellar (Yahoo/AFP) 08/11/2014
Editorial: The West must oppose Russia’s ‘humanitarian’ invasion of Ukraine (Washington Post) 08/11/2014
CBC producer revisits Ukraine to explore conflict (VIDEO) (CBC) 08/11/2014
Ukraine Is Winning the War. But will Putin invade? By CHRYSTIA FREELAND (Politico) 08/11/2014
Greece accuses Turkey of exploiting Russian EU food ban (Euractiv) 08/11/2014
Senior State Department Official: Background Briefing En Route to Sydney, Australia (State.gov) 08/11/2014
MH17 Air Accident Investigators Recalled from Ukraine, Says Dutch Safety Board (Wall Street Journal) 08/11/2014
Three planeloads of Ukrainian Jews expected in coming weeks (Jerusalem Post) 08/10/2014
Steven Seagal plays at concert for pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine (The Guardian) 08/10/2014
Europe's fragile economy put to test as Ukraine, Iraq sour mood (Reuters) 08/10/2014
Putin Has Stumbled in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/10/2014
Aberdeen chief warns on Ukraine crisis risks (Daily Telegraph) 08/10/2014
Ukraine's displaced facing long ordeal (Al Jazeera) 08/10/2014
Estonia's president takes aim at Swiss over lack of Russia sanctions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/10/2014
Ukrainian rebels say they ready for ceasefire (Reuters) 08/10/2014
Before the fear of war, fear of fracking in Ukraine (Al Jazeera) 08/10/2014
1 killed, 10 injured as fighting rages in Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/10/2014
US action hero Steven Seagal plays gig in Crimea [Seagal has expressed his anti-Ukrainian position in the past] (Yahoo/AFP) 08/10/2014
Artillery pounds Ukraine rebel bastion as West warns Russia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/10/2014
Russia presses Armenian, Azeri leaders for talks on Nagorno-Karabakh (Reuters) 08/10/2014
Ukraine says no ceasefire until separatists surrender, rebels defiant (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/10/2014
Ukraine demands that rebels in Donetsk surrender (Yahoo/AP) 08/10/2014
Ukraine says no ceasefire until separatists surrender, rebels defiant (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/10/2014
Soccer-Former Dynamo Kiev midfielder [Andriy] Bal dies playing soccer (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/10/2014
Russia returns five Ukrainian soldiers detained on its soil (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/10/2014
Neither War nor Peace? – Putin’s Trotskyite Strategy in Ukraine (Window on Eurasia) 08/10/2014
After Putin, Russia Will Be Either Fascist or Federalized, Ukrainian Analyst Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/10/2014
Refugees from Eastern Ukraine Getting Mixed Receptions in Russia (Window on Eurasia) 08/10/2014
Ukraine crisis: Army pounds rebels in Donetsk (BBC) 08/10/2014
Bombardment continues in Ukraine, no truce in sight (Deutsche Welle) 08/10/2014
Russia resumes Crimean Tatar deportation, one at a time (Kyiv Post) 08/10/2014
Mykola Berezovy, husband of journalist Tetyana Chornovil, killed in fighting near Donetsk (Kyiv Post) 08/10/2014
Preparing for War, Putin Fired Officers Who Warned Him of Its Dangers, Kyiv Analyst Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/10/2014
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Vladimir Putin 'sacks 18 top-ranking Russian officials' (Independent) 08/09/2014
Fresh evidence of how the West lured Ukraine into its orbit [BRAMA: ?] (Daily Telegraph) 08/09/2014
Ukraine: demonstrators resist dismantling of Maidan protest camp (Euronews) 08/09/2014
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held consultations with US Vice President Joseph Biden (President.gov.ua) 08/09/2014
Russia's Lavrov discusses humanitarian mission in Ukraine with Kerry (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/09/2014
Ukraine Strategy Bets on Restraint by Russia (The New York Times) 08/09/2014
Provocation on the border of our country was prevented - Valeriy Chalyi (President.gov.ua) 08/09/2014
A Cathedral Under Siege. Two Development Projects Threaten the Grand Canyon. By KEVIN FEDARKO (The New York Times) 08/09/2014
In Ukraine, Separatist Commander 'Strelkov' Seems To Be Getting Frustrated (RFE/RL) 08/09/2014
US and Germany threaten Russia with 'additional consequences' over Ukraine (Guardian) 08/09/2014
Ukrainian rebels say they ready for ceasefire (Reuters) 08/09/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based on information as of 18:00hrs, 8 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/09/2014
Prisoners of 'Demon' in war-torn Ukraine (BBC) 08/09/2014
Rebel Commander in Ukraine Says Donetsk Is Surrounded (The Wire) 08/09/2014
Ukraine rebel leader asks for aid, cease-fire (Yahoo/AP) 08/09/2014
Russia starts drilling its northernmost oil well (Yahoo/AP) 08/09/2014
Militants attack Donetsk-Rostov passenger bus (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Ukraine rebel leader: We are open to a cease-fire (Yahoo/AP) 08/09/2014
Russia seeks US backing for 'humanitarian mission' to Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Russia denies 'humanitarian' push into Ukraine as forces surround Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Russia 'humanitarian' push into Ukraine would be illegal: US, UK (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Moscow says chases US sub away (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Russia detects, 'expels' presumed U.S. submarine: Russian news agencies (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/09/2014
Putin, launching US-Russia oil project, touts 'pragmatism' (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Foreign Ministry releases video biography of Nadiya Savchenko (Kyiv Post) 08/09/2014
Western Ukraine’s Banderstadt shelters eastern Ukraine’s refugees (Kyiv Post) 08/09/2014
Surrounded, Donetsk separatist floats Ukraine ceasefire (Deutsche Welle) 08/09/2014
How to lose friends. Vladimir Putin pretends that he can make Russia self-sufficient and strong (Economist) 08/09/2014
Putin’s Aggressiveness has Roots in Yeltsin’s Rule, Portnikov Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/09/2014
Putin’s Economic Confrontation with West Will Destroy His Regime, Mitrokhin Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/09/2014
Battalion Aydar Detains Acting Mayor Of Oleksandrivsk, Luhansk Region Reznik (Ukrainian News Agency) 08/09/2014
Pilot Of Ukrainian Fighter Plane, Shot Down By Terrorists, Returns To Troops Body (Ukrainian News Agency) 08/09/2014
Swiss OSCE Chairperson-in-Office acknowledges humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, calls for co-operative measures (OSCE) 08/09/2014
Ukraine says another 13 of its troops die in conflict-torn east (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Lithuanian FM Linkevicius: “Everyone is fed up with Russian 'humanitarian' efforts” (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Ukrainian troops attack terrorists in 12 localities (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Red Cross tells Russia what humanitarian aid means (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Russia pulls Pskov Airborne Assault Division to border with Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Situation in Luhansk critical: city without electricity, water, telephone (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Ukraine manages to stop Russian invasion - Chaly (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
MFA urges Russia 'to refrain from humanitarian convoys' to Ukraine (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Russian 'humanitarian' convoy nearly enters Ukraine (Kyiv Post) 08/09/2014
Artillery gunfire heard in all districts of Donetsk (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/09/2014
Ukraine says stops Russian troops invading, Moscow calls statement 'fairy tale' (Reuters) 08/09/2014
Russian 'ploy' averted, says Ukraine (Deutsche Welle) 08/09/2014
Diplomacy on hold in Ukraine? (Deutsche Welle) 08/09/2014
Poland asks US to import apples banned by Russia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/09/2014
Barricades come down in Kiev (Yahoo/AP) 08/09/2014
Ukraine crisis: Kiev dismantles last protest barriers (BBC) 08/09/2014
Ukraine forces surround Donetsk in east: Commander (PressTV) 08/09/2014
Russian unmanned aircraft continue to violate Ukraine's airspace (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/09/2014
Russia frees Ukrainian officers detained earlier on suspicion of war crimes (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/09/2014
'The Next Stalingrad' Awaits in Ukraine (Mashable) 08/09/2014
Last Of 'Euromaidan' Barricades Cleared In Downtown Kyiv (RFE/RL) 08/09/2014
Thirteen Ukrainian soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine over past 24 hours (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/09/2014
ATO forces shelled by Grad rocket launchers, mortars (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Ukraine reduces gas imports ten times in July (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
16,000 people flee from occupied Crimea - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Putin Believes He can Win a War with NATO, Piontkovsky Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/09/2014
UN offers Donbas humanitarian aid (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
U.S. says Russian 'humanitarian convoy' to Donbass to be regarded as invasion (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
QHA Director and Mejlis adviser also banned entry to the Crimea (KHPG) 08/09/2014
Ukrainian aircraft destroy terrorists' convoys near Horlivka, Antratsyt (Ukrinform) 08/09/2014
Op-ed: Is Putin Really Cornered? (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Harshest Sanctions on Russia Yet—From Vladimir Putin. By Kara-Murza (World Affairs Journal) 08/08/2014
Opinion: Russia’s blow to globalization. By Anne Applebaum (Washington Post) 08/08/2014
Op-ed: Is Putin Really Cornered? Talk to Russia About Ukraine. By ANDREW S. WEISS, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Obama on the World. President Obama Talks to Thomas L. Friedman About Iraq, Putin and Israel (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Editorial: A World Desperate for a Little Good News (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Bloomfield Hills doctor performs surgery on Ukrainian hero (The Oakland Press) 08/08/2014
Opinion: The Quite Hilarious Russian Propaganda About The Ban On EU Food Imports (Forbes) 08/08/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin bans import of almost all Australian foods but allows in alcohol products (COURIER-MAIL) 08/08/2014
Richest Russians Deprived of Luxury Foods by Putin’s Ban. Let them eat blini. (Bloomberg) 08/08/2014
Not only militants guilty of taking priests prisoner (KHPG) 08/08/2014
Patriarch Kirill, FSB Backing Different Candidates in Ukrainian Church Election (Window on Eurasia) 08/08/2014
Ukraine: UN alarmed by intensifying clashes, mounting casualties in country's east (United Nations) 08/08/2014
Russian invasion of Ukraine more likely: Bremmer (CNBC) 08/08/2014
Malls to Meeting Rooms Empty Amid Ukrainian No-Go Zone (Bloomberg) 08/08/2014
In Ukraine, NATO Boss Issues Warning to Russia (Military.com) 08/08/2014
Half a Ton of This, Half a Ton of That: Russia Is Calm Over Food Import Bans (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Blast in Ukraine’s Capital Stirs Fears of New Conflict (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Iraq Strikes Seen as Giving Putin Pretext in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/08/2014
Spanish civil war nostalgics join fight alongside Ukrainian rebels [(One Spaniard) proudly shows off two big monochrome portraits of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, tattooed on the right and left side of his torso.] (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Five Ukrainian soldiers who crossed in Russia arrested (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
U.S. says it would view Russia aid deliveries to Ukraine as invasion (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Russia's Defence Ministry says military drills near Ukraine over (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Sanctions grate on Moscow cheese monger (Yahoo/AFP) 08/08/2014
US warns Russia against using aid to invade Ukraine (Yahoo/AFP) 08/08/2014
Obama interrupting summer vacation with trip to DC (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
New Ukrainian rebel leader [Alexander Zakharchenko] gives Moscow distance [A Ukrainian has replaced a Russian at the helm of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine and declared that he wants 'only moral support' from Moscow...] (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
US warns Russia against intervention in Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
'A Russian Peacekeeper in Ukraine Is an Oxymoron' (Mashable) 08/08/2014
Oh No—Russian Troops Near Ukraine Are Painting ‘Peacekeeper‘ on Their Tanks (Medium.com) 08/08/2014
Ukraine crisis draws students to unique Munich uni (Deutsche Welle) 08/08/2014
Russian Roulette (Dispatch 68) VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky speaks with both the leader of the Kiev 2 Battalion and Maidan activists after clashes in Kiev. (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/08/2014
Ukrainian soldiers go on trial in Russia, their comrade faces prison at home for saving lives (Kyiv Post) 08/08/2014
Ukraine says ceasefire at MH17 crash site still in force (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
World War on Russia's Mind When US Duels Over Ukraine (Bloomberg) 08/08/2014
Grad shelling from Russia in direction of Amvrosiyivka for almost half an hour [18:25 Kyiv time] (Ukrinform) 08/08/2014
Smeshko on situation in Donbas: Nobody tells Putin that Ukrainians are not Russians (Ukrinform) 08/08/2014
Yanukovych, his 'Family' face trial in absentia - Yatseniuk (Ukrinform) 08/08/2014
Ukraine Open to Halting Gas Flows in Russia Sanctions (Bloomberg) 08/08/2014
Ukrainian government approves draft law on sanctions against Russia (Ukrinform) 08/08/2014
Ukraine readies sanctions on Russian citizens, companies (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Russia arrests Ukrainian officers for 'war crimes' (BBC) 08/08/2014
Revolution and war in Ukraine. I witness; A novelist’s enlightening account of life in Kiev during Ukraine’s turmoil [Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev. By Andrey Kurkov] (The Economist) 08/08/2014
Dow reversal illustrates Ukraine sway over markets (USA TODAY) 08/08/2014
Dutch experts identify 23 Ukraine plane victims (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
3 killed by shelling in rebel-held Ukraine city (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
World stocks mostly down on Ukraine, Iraq jitters (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
AP Analysis: Obama puts US on brink of Iraq return (Yahoo/AP) 08/08/2014
Fierce Ukraine border battles as sanctions war heats up (Yahoo/AFP) 08/08/2014
Russian rouble close to all-time low over Ukraine fears (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Ukraine troops break out of encirclement, 15 troops killed (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
European farmers feel Russian sanctions bite (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Ukrainian company bonds hit by fear of debt restructuring, default (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Wall Street opens up on Russia bets (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Kiev to target Russian citizens, companies in Ukraine with sanctions-PM (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/08/2014
Exclusive: Priest who took part in the clashes on the Maidan identified; made it on to the front page of today's “Financial Times” (RISU) 08/08/2014
Catholic bishop: Russian occupants do not touch the Catholics in the Crimea (RISU) 08/08/2014
150 Jews who fled Ukraine fighting expected in Israel (RISU) 08/08/2014
Putinism Resembles ‘a Fascist Dictatorship,’ Eidman Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/08/2014
Western Sanctions Driving Up Putin’s Popularity, Chernyakhovsky Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/08/2014
Ukrainians Think Better of Russians than Russians Do of Muscovites, Kyiv Blogger Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/08/2014
Russia’s Jewish Organizations Compete for Influence in Occupied Crimea (Window on Eurasia) 08/08/2014
Russia increases clamps on Internet use (KHPG) 08/08/2014
Moscow Court refuses to release Oleg Sentsov (KHPG) 08/08/2014
In Escalating Standoff With West, Russia Imposes Food Ban (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/08/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 172: Ukrainian Forces Break Out Of Encirclement But Leave Border Vulnerable (The Interpreter) 08/08/2014
National Bank reforms the banking sector amid reforming itself (Kyiv Post) 08/08/2014
Two people injured in explosion close to Maidan (UPDATED) (Kyiv Post) 08/08/2014
Russian Journalist Missing in Donetsk (The Moscow Times) 08/08/2014
Ukraine Says Rebels Mistook Doomed Flight MH17 for Aeroflot Plane (The Moscow Times) 08/08/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received by 18:00 (Kyiv time), 7 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/08/2014
NATO: 'We stand by Ukraine' (UPI) 08/07/2014
How Bart Simpson was dragged into the war of words against Putin (Washington Post) 08/07/2014
Bart Simpson Did Not Call Vladmir Putin a D***head, says Fox (Yahoo/IB Times) 08/07/2014
We Come in 'Peace'. Russia's invasion of eastern Ukraine won't be an armored blitzkrieg. It's a slow, seditious drip -- and it's already underway. BY MICHAEL WEISS (Foreign Policy) 08/07/2014
PUTIN'S MINI-ME. The Mask Is Off. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has openly renounced Western-style democracy for the nationalist authoritarianism of Putin’s Russia (American Interest) 08/07/2014
Putin stokes fears of formal Ukraine invasion (VIDEO) (MSNBC) 08/07/2014
Ukraine: Militants shoot down military plane (KSAT/CNN) 08/07/2014
Vladimir Putin's Food Sanctions (VIDEO - humor) (The Colbert Report) 08/07/2014
Tourism takes a nosedive in Crimea (BBC) 08/07/2014
Terrorists and militants planned cynical terrorist attack at Aeroflot civil aircraft (SBU.gov.ua) 08/07/2014
Pilots Say US Failed to Assess Ukraine Threat (Wall Street Journal) 08/07/2014
Ukraine PM’s office hit by cyber attack linked to Russia (Financial Times) 08/07/2014
Poland Speeds up Arms Deal Citing Ukraine Conflict (ABC/AP) 08/07/2014
Latest report by the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) on Alleged Shelling of Donetsk Hospital and Civilian Buildings (OSCE) 08/07/2014
Putin Will Decide Captured Ukrainian Pilot’s Fate, Her Lawyer Says. BY IRENA CHALUPA (Atlantic Council) 08/07/2014
Kremlin Silences Crimea's Last Pro-Ukraine TV Station. BY IRENA CHALUPA (Atlantic Council) 08/07/2014
Russian bombers penetrated U.S. airspace at least 16 times in past 10 days (The Washington Post) 08/07/2014
Putin Puts Russians on Soviet Diet (Bloomberg) 08/07/2014
Putin Punishes the West by Punishing the Russian People (Ricochet) 08/07/2014
NATO Chief Vows Support For Ukraine, Urges Russia Pullback (RFE/RL) 08/07/2014
Western farmers take hit from Russia food ban (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Canada will send military supplies to Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
US: Russia impeding own people's access to food (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
NATO pledges support to conflict-wracked Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Russia food embargo creates golden opportunity for Brazil (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Moscow bans Western food imports; Russian quits as Ukraine rebel chief (Reuters) 08/07/2014
Horlivka Shelling: Five people killed, Orthodox church burnt down (RISU) 08/07/2014
Rebels in Ukraine reportedly down another military plane (Christian Science Monitor) 08/07/2014
Five months after Russian takeover, Crimean Tatars unhappy with new rulers (Kyiv Post) 08/07/2014
Ukrainian Army’s Artillery Hits Hospital, Killing Dental Patient (The New York Times) 08/07/2014
NATO chief in Kiev discusses support for Ukraine's defensive power (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Shelling in rebel-held Ukrainian city kills 4 [DONETSK] (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
US and Russia renew Cold War rivalry (Al Jazeera) 08/07/2014
Defiant Nadiya Savchenko, a captured Ukrainian navigator, inspires her country (Washington Post) 08/07/2014
Ukraine's disappeared: 'What happens to them doesn’t seem to matter' (Al Jazeera) 08/07/2014
How Bart Simpson was dragged into the war of words against Putin (Washington Post) 08/07/2014
NATO stands by Ukraine, Secretary General says in Kiev (NATO) 08/07/2014
Ukraine's Military Draft Brings War Home for Thousands (Businessweek) 08/07/2014
Photos: Independence Square In Flames As Maidan Activists Clash With Ukrainian Forces (Huffington Post) 08/07/2014
Euromaidan activists are being detained by a group of men from the Kiev 1 Battalion (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/07/2014
Russia Moves to Ban Parmesan Cheese as Black Smoke Billows Over Kiev Again (VICE News) 08/07/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 hrs, 6 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/07/2014
Without Double Standards [(O)n a reputable site (Transitions Online) readers have received extremely misleading information about the events in Odessa on May 2 and a version of events from EuroMaidan to the downing of MH17 which fully corresponds with that presented by the Kremlin and Russian media]. By Halya Coynash (KHPG) 08/07/2014
Parubiy tenders resignation as NSDC secretary (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
United States strengthens presence in Black Sea (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
Russia closes its skies for Ukrainian airlines (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
Russia bans EU-US agricultural products (VIDEO) (Deutsche Welle) 08/07/2014
Clashes in Kiev After Police Attempt to Dismantle Tents on Maidan (The Moscow Times/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Russia to Double Number of Paratroopers (The Moscow Times) 08/07/2014
Kamchatka Calls 'Emergency' Over Ukrainian Refugee Influx (The Moscow Times) 08/07/2014
Two Sanctioned Russian Banks Turn to Government for Aid (The Moscow Times) 08/07/2014
Photo of a Fight in the Ukrainian Parliament Looks Like Renaissance Art (Mashable) 08/07/2014
Telegraph the 'zonkey' born at Crimean zoo (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Change possible at top of east Ukraine rebellion signals effort to ease tensions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
NATO, Ukraine discuss alliance support for Kiev's defence capacity (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Ukraine gets gas from Europe after Russia cutoff, volumes plummet (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Putin, Merkel discuss Ukraine crisis, laud OSCE monitors mission: Kremlin (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Biden, Poroshenko concerned about Russia military buildup: White House (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Russia bans fruit, veg, meat, fish, dairy imports from U.S., EU (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Ukraine foreign currency reserves fall to $16.07 billion in July - central bank (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Bottler Coca Cola HBC warns of 'sudden deterioration' in Russian market (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Factbox - The effect of Russia sanctions on European companies (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Snowden receives three-year Russian residence permit - lawyer (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Special Report: How scams and shakedowns brought Ukraine to its knees (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Russian sanctions retaliation bruises Polish apple farmers (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/07/2014
NATO Secretary General in Kiev for talks with senior Ukraine government leaders (NATO) 08/07/2014
Ukrainian Soldiers In Russia On Hunger Strike (RFE/RL) 08/07/2014
Clashes In Kiev As Ukraine Moves To Dismantle 'Euromaidan' Protest Camp (Business Insider/Reuters) 08/07/2014
Russians Envision Country's Future Without U.S. and EU Foods (The Moscow Times) 08/07/2014
Obama Says Ukraine Doesn't Need U.S. Military Aid [... but an invasion by Russia would raise 'a different set of questions.'] (RFE/RL) 08/07/2014
Australians mourn victims of downed Malaysian jet (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
3 killed, 5 wounded in east Ukraine fightin (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Dutch pushed for harsher Russia sanctions (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Mortar hits hospital in eastern Ukraine; 1 killed (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Russia hits back on sanctions; bans food from West (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
ECB 'closely monitoring' geopolitical risks (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
ECB's Draghi cautions over Ukraine impact (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Report: Pro-Russian separatists in Moldova put Army on alert (Yahoo/AP) 08/07/2014
Russia retaliates against Western sanctions with food ban (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Russia threatens to block overflights between Europe, Asia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Russia threatens overflight block between Europe, Asia (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
EU reserves right to 'action' after Russia sanctions (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Russia announces 'full embargo' on most food from US, EU (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Australia holds national day of mourning for MH17 victims (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
NATO chief flies to Ukraine amid Russian troop buildup fears (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Russian troop buildup on Ukraine border fans fears of incursion (Yahoo/AFP) 08/07/2014
Ukrainian Orthodox bishop called Putin to withdraw Russian troops from the border with Ukraine (RISU) 08/07/2014
Ukrainians in Russia Call on Putin to End Ukrainophobia There (Window on Eurasia) 08/07/2014
Putin has Turned the Clock Back to July 1938, Felshtinsky Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/07/2014
Russia to block Glavkom over Siberian federalism coverage (KHPG) 08/07/2014
Suspect in Tetyana Chornovol attack receives asylum in Russia (KHPG) 08/07/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 171: Barricades Burn Once Again As Authorities Try To Clear Maidan (The Interpreter) 08/07/2014
Terrorists wanted to shot down Aeroflot plane instead of Boeing - Nalyvaichenko (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
Ukraine to appeal to international courts to seek release of its servicemen in Russia (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
Poroshenko accepts Parubiy's resignation (Ukrinform) 08/07/2014
BREMMER: Invading Eastern Ukraine Is Clearly Putin's Plan B (Business Insider) 08/06/2014
Vladimir Putin Might Fall. We Should Consider What Happens Next. By Julia Ioffe (New Republic) 08/06/2014
Malaysia Flight Wreckage Was 'Like The End Of The World' (AUDIO) (NPR) 08/06/2014
Honoring Ukraine's National Poet Through His Art [at The Ukrainian Museum in NYC] (Voices of NY) 08/06/2014
The Ukrainian army is unprepared for war. By DAVID MARPLES and MYROSLAVA UNIAT (Open Democracy) 08/06/2014
Impunity reigns for abductions and ill-treatment by pro-Kyiv vigilantes in eastern Ukraine (Amnesty International) 08/06/2014
Op-ed: Russia Must Recognize Ukraine Rebels' Human Rights Abuses (The Moscow Times) 08/06/2014
Op-ed: Moscow Needs a Plan B in Ukraine (The Moscow Times) 08/06/2014
Five facts on the Russian data heist (Deutsche Welle) 08/06/2014
UNHCR on 'huge displacement' of Ukrainians (Deutsche Welle) 08/06/2014
Sour apples in Russia? Putin moves to ban food imports from West. (+video) (Christian Science Monitor) 08/06/2014
Fear as midnight airstrike hits close to Donetsk centre (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
US, Ukraine concerned over Russian 'peacekeepers' (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Obama: US sanctions are straining Russian economy (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Dutch premier halts search for Ukraine victims (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Report on Ukraine plane disaster delayed (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Ukraine to raise income tax levels to help war-battered budget (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Weekly update from the OSCE Observer Mission at the Russian Checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, for the period 30 July – 5 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/06/2014
Op-ed: Putin's Ukraine Gambit Isn't Unprecedented (The Moscow Times) 08/06/2014
GLOBAL MARKETS-Ukraine worry sparks fall in stocks, bond yields (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Opinion: Ukraine: Avoiding the 'Cold War' Entrapment (Huffington Post) 08/06/2014
Ukraine Situation Dominates (Inside Futures) 08/06/2014
World War 3 Coming? Hagel Says Threat of Russia Invading Ukraine (The Epoch Times/AP) 08/06/2014
Russian Roulette (Dispatch 66) In this dispatch, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky interviews an American volunteer in the Donbas Battalion to find out why he joined the unit, and what he thinks about the crisis in Ukraine. (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/06/2014
Recriminations and Denials After Putin. By Alexander J. Motyl (World Affairs Journal) 08/06/2014
Op-ed: To Beat Putin, Support Ukraine. By MICHAEL A. McFAUL (The New York Times) 08/06/2014
Vladimir Putin's pointless conflict with Europe leaves it a vassal of China (Daily Telegraph) 08/06/2014
Ukraine restricts pig imports over disease fears (Baltimore Sun/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Hagel: Growing Threat of Russia Invading Ukraine (ABC/AP) 08/06/2014
U.S. Joins Ukraine Incursion Concern as Putin Hits Back (Bloomberg) 08/06/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 5 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/06/2014
Nazarbayev urges all Ukraine conflict parties to negotiating table (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/06/2014
Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers killed in latest separatist clashes: Kiev military (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Corporate Ukraine Rocked by Mriya Missed Debt Payment (Bloomberg) 08/06/2014
NSDC denies reports of airstrike on Donetsk (Ukrinform) 08/06/2014
UN Security Council supports Ukraine, points to Russia as a source of military crisis (Ukrinform) 08/06/2014
Fears of escalation in Ukraine roils markets (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Air strike injures 2 in key Ukrainian rebel city (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Polish PM: risk grows of Russia entering Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/06/2014
Polish PM says threat of Russia's intervention in Ukraine has risen (Reuters) 08/06/2014
NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Coca-Cola 'pulls ads' from sanctions-linked Russian TV stations (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
Rebel-held Donetsk hit by air strike as Ukraine forces close in (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
Ukraine launches overnight air strike on rebel-held Donetsk (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
Driving down east Ukraine's dangerous 'humanitarian corridor' (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
Moscow threatens to block BBC Russian Service (Yahoo/AFP) 08/06/2014
Futures drop on worries over Ukraine, deal failures (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Russia imposes new import bans in sanctions stand-off (Reuters) 08/06/2014
Coca-Cola takes ads off four Russian TV channels (Reuters) 08/06/2014
German orders suffer sharpest fall in almost three years in June (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Eighteen Ukrainian soldiers killed in latest separatist clashes: Kiev military (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Russia worries, weak German data weigh on Europe (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Russia must avoid aggravating Ukraine crisis - German foreign ministry (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Ukraine keeps up anti-rebel offensive with nervous eye on Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Ukrzaliznytsia carries almost 2,500 people from war-torn area free of charge (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/06/2014
Poroshenko orders dismissal of Ukrainian military leaders responsible for logistic support, arms purchases (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/06/2014
Kyiv denies delivering airstrikes upon Donetsk (Kyiv Post/Interfax-Russia) 08/06/2014
Ukrainian cleaners discover they own companies – and owe taxes (Kyiv Post) 08/06/2014
How to kiss up to your boss, Yanukovych-style (Kyiv Post) 08/06/2014
Kazakhstan’s Government Shake-Up More than Cosmetics? (Eurasianet) 08/06/2014
Russia sanctions could spell economic crisis for Finland - PM (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/06/2014
Statist strongmen Putin-Xi see history's capitalism clash (Bloomberg) 08/06/2014
Moscow considers forcing European airlines to fly around Russia (Euractiv) 08/06/2014
East Ukraine danger increasing, warns UN (BBC) 08/06/2014
Russia gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords (BBC) 08/06/2014
Two Stakhanov journalists abducted (KHPG) 08/06/2014
Three journalists missing in Donetsk oblast (KHPG) 08/06/2014
Driver abducted while trying to evacuate an invalid (KHPG) 08/06/2014
Police who beat up Ani Lorak protesters fired (KHPG) 08/06/2014
BBC says no to Russian censor over Siberian autonomy activist (KHPG) 08/06/2014
Terrorists kidnap Red Cross representatives (Euromaidan Press) 08/06/2014
Ukraine Liveblog Day 170: Heavy Fighting Overnight On Western Edge Of Donetsk (The Interpreter) 08/06/2014
Russian Roulette (Dispatch 65) Simon Ostrovsky heads towards the MH17 crash site, as the Ukrainian military has successfully recaptured the cities surrounding it (VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/06/2014
Soviet Disunion: Europe's breakaway states. The USSR has been dead for two decades, but conflicts stemming from its ethnic patchwork live on today (Al Jazeera) 08/06/2014
Inside RT: News Network or Putin's Propaganda Machine? (Mashable) 08/06/2014
Vladimir Putin’s Chess-Master Nemesis. Garry Kasparov, the Man Who Would Be King (The New York Times) 08/06/2014
Impunity reigns for abductions and ill-treatment by pro-Kyiv vigilantes in eastern Ukraine (Amnesty International) 08/06/2014
Moscow Freaks Out About Federalization Rally...In Siberia (RFE/RL) 08/05/2014
Russia Is Involved In Another Border Dispute That No One Is Talking About (Business Insider) 08/05/2014
Op-ed: Russia Supports Putin Because It Fears Dissent (The Moscow Times) 08/05/2014
Russian Theme Park A Go For French Firm Despite EU Sanctions Link (RFE/RL) 08/05/2014
War Exacts Heavy Toll on Ukraine's Economy and National Mood (The Wall Street Journal) 08/05/2014
Patriarch Filaret: Moscow Patriarchate assists terrorists in the Donbas (RISU) 08/05/2014
BBC rebuffs Russian state complaint over Siberia march (BBC) 08/05/2014
UN: Nearly a million Ukrainians have fled fighting in east (+video) (Christian Science Monitor) 08/05/2014
Crimean money laundering zone for Russian bandits? (KHPG) 08/05/2014
Ukraine’s government too slow in protecting Crimeans’ rights (KHPG) 08/05/2014
Putin Re-Interprets Russia’s Participation in the First World War (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/05/2014
Putin Urges Economic Retaliation for Sanctions Over Ukraine Conflict (The New York Times) 08/05/2014
Russia Moves to Deport Wife of an Activist [American wife of a high-profile human rights lawyer living in St. Petersburg is “a threat to national security.”] (The New York Times) 08/05/2014
Japan Imposes New Sanctions on Russia but Keeps a Diplomatic Door Open (The New York Times) 08/05/2014
Russian Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords (The New York Times) 08/05/2014
Ukraine Pop Star a Casualty in Culture War With Russia [Ani Lorak] (The Daily Beast) 08/05/2014
Ukraine rebels threatening doctors, looting medical equipment: HRW (First Post) 08/05/2014
Tensions Rise as Kyiv Debates Future of Independence Square [Maidan Nezalezhnosti] (Voice of America) 08/05/2014
Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 4 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/05/2014
OSCE media freedom representative worried about new reports of missing journalists in eastern Ukraine (OSCE) 08/05/2014
Fitch Downgrades Ukraine's Mriya Agro Holding to 'C' (Reuters) 08/05/2014
U.S. military team in Ukraine to help airliner crash probe (Reuters) 08/05/2014
Economic Fallout from Ukraine Crisis Leaves Russian Tourists Stranded. String of Travel Agency Bankruptcies Draw Prime Minister's Attention (The Wall Street Journal) 08/05/2014
Ukraine's military is gaining confidence as it gains territory (GlobalPost) 08/05/2014
Poroshenko repeals lifetime benefits to former senior officials (Ukrinform) 08/05/2014
Russia pulls 45,000-strong army, hundreds of combat vehicles, aircraft to border - NSDC (Ukrinform) 08/05/2014
UN: Humanitarian situation in Ukraine worsening (Yahoo/AP) 08/05/2014
Ukraine: UN urges central registration system amid rising internal displacement (United Nations) 08/05/2014
HUMANITARIAN CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE TO DETERIORATE IF CRISIS IN EASTERN UKRAINE PERSISTS, SENIOR OFFICIAL TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL (United Nations) 08/05/2014
UN to meet on humanitarian situation in Ukraine [At Russia's request] (Yahoo/AP) 08/05/2014
Russia's Putin orders response to Western sanctions (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Russia mulls retaliation after sanctions hit Crimea airline (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
At least 285,000 flee Ukraine crisis: UN (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Sanctions may force Russia to raise taxes: Medvedev (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Clashes kill two in rebel bastion Donetsk as UN warns of mass exodus (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Former Horlivka prisoner recalls tortures, killings and intimate talks with captor (Kyiv Post) 08/05/2014
Swiss add names to list to prevent bypassing of Russia sanctions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/05/2014
Watching the Eclipse. Ambassador Michael McFaul was there when the promise of democracy came to Russia—and when it began to fade (The New Yorker) 08/05/2014
Japan unveils Russia, Crimea sanctions (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Ukrainians flee besieged Donetsk as fighting closes in (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Ukraine closes in on rebel bastion, urges civilians to flee (Yahoo/AFP) 08/05/2014
Russia to hold war games in show of strength near Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/05/2014
Ukraine keeps up anti-rebel offensive with nervous eye on Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/05/2014
About 730,000 have left Ukraine for Russia due to conflict - UNHCR (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/05/2014
Separatists fire on Ukraine troops returning from Russia - Kiev (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/05/2014
How to Solve the Putin Problem (American Thinker) 08/04/2014
Russian Soldiers Commit 'Torture' & War Crimes In Ukraine (Ukraine War Log) 08/04/2014
Cadaver dogs assist in Ukraine crash site search (CNN) 08/04/2014
Why The EU Finally Decided on Strong Sanctions. Russian Fighters’ Thuggishness Eroded Germany’s Putin-Verstehen. BY JOHN E. HERBST (Atlantic Council) 08/04/2014
Russia's LUKoil Pulls Out Of Three Central European States (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Ukraine Claims a Victory and a Setback (NASDAQ) 08/04/2014
Politics of Survival Not Economics of Growth Driving Putin’s Policies, Moscow Commentator Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/04/2014
Moscow’s ‘Imperial Federalism’ Sparking Federalist Demands within Russia, Shtepa Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/04/2014
Russian war games get under way, unnerving Ukraine (Christian Science Monitor) 08/04/2014
West Pushes and Eases Putin Toward a ‘Diplomatic Solution’ in Ukraine (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/04/2014
Russia Against the World: Igor Strelkov’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (The Interpreter) 08/04/2014
Russia This Week: Why Col. Strelkov May Have Trouble Recruiting Russians (The Interpreter) 08/04/2014
Ukraine's Slovyansk residents rebuild lives (VIDEO) (Al Jazeera) 08/04/2014
Going nowhere on Ukraine's roads. While trying to make his way to Horlivka, our correspondent was detained at a separatist checkpoint (Al Jazeera) 08/04/2014
Letter: Sale of Warships to Russia [ELIOT L. ENGEL, Democratic representative from New York, ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs] (The New York Times) 08/04/2014
Ukraine Trauma Counselors Battle ‘Info-Intoxication’ (TIME) 08/04/2014
Kiev is deploying missile launchers near Donetsk-Russia (Reuters) 08/04/2014
Serinus Energy Inc.: Ukraine-Impact of New Ukrainian Royalty Law (The Wall Street Journal) 08/04/2014
Putin the (Not So) Great. Laughing in the face of the rest of the world's rules can only last so long. By MICHAEL McFAUL (Politico) 08/04/2014
A Wounded Ukraine Volunteer Lies in a Donetsk Prison—Where the Jailer Is Russian. Chaotic Insurgent Movement Brings to the Region Warfare That Calls to Mind WWII, Balkan Conflicts (The Wall Street Journal) 08/04/2014
Ukrainian Soldiers Build Their Own 'Fortress On Wheels' (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Ukraine Rebels Enlisting ‘Punishment Brigades’ for Support Work (The New York Times) 08/04/2014
Buildup Makes Russia Battle-Ready for Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/04/2014
Crimea: Welcome to Russia (+VIDEO) (VICE News) 08/04/2014
The French Are Thinking About Arming Europe Instead of Russia (VICE News) 08/04/2014
Russia FM predicts 'easier' time with proposed new US envoy (Yahoo/AFP) 08/04/2014
Ukrainian troops cross into Russia to avoid fighting, talks underway (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Soccer-Ukrainian championship results and standings (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Russian Prosecutor's Office Threatens to Shut Down Russian News Site for Article About Siberian Self-Determination. Isn't that ironic, don't you think? By Julia Ioffe (New Republic) 08/04/2014
Op-ed: Does Being Russian Mean Never Having to Say You’re Sorry? By Masha Gessen (The New York Times) 08/04/2014
OSCE representative condemns steps aimed at full silencing of Chernomorskaya TV in Crimea (OSCE) 08/04/2014
CORRECTION: Spot report by the OSCE observer mission at the Russian checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk, 3 August 2014 (OSCE) 08/04/2014
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 3 August 2014 (Kyiv time) (OSCE) 08/04/2014
Ukrainian soldiers cross border into Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/04/2014
US recon jet enters Swedish air to avoid Russians (Yahoo/AP) 08/04/2014
Germany nixes Russia military simulator deal (Yahoo/AP) 08/04/2014
Interfax: Russia starts air force drills (Yahoo/AP) 08/04/2014
Germany Reportedly Scraps Military Deal With Russia (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Russia Launches Military Exercises In Central, Western Regions (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Donetsk Dolphins, War Evacuees (VIDEO) (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
OSCE Monitors Reportedly Vacate Ukrainian-Russian Border Post (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Interview: Ukrainian Journalist Says Arrest In Russia Was 'Purely Political Decision' (RFE/RL) 08/04/2014
Kremlin-backed militants block all roads except to Russia (KHPG) 08/04/2014
Russian censor’s attempts to silence home-grown federalists backfire (KHPG) 08/04/2014
Top militant linked with Dugin’s neo-fascist Eurasia movement killed [Alexander Proselkov] (KHPG) 08/04/2014
Senior Kremlin-backed militant confirms executions in Slovyansk (KHPG) 08/04/2014
Kiev is deploying missile launchers near Donetsk - Russia (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Russia to hold war games in show of strength near Ukraine (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Kiev says it recaptures rail hub in eastern Ukraine, five soldiers killed (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Belarus says ready to supply Ukraine with oil products (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Putin ally Timchenko says business will not turn on him over sanctions (Yahoo/Reuters) 08/04/2014
Germany Blocks Delivery of Military Parts to Russia (The New York Times) 08/04/2014
Ukrainian turf war reverberates in Luzerne County (Wilkes Barre Times-Leader) 08/03/2014
Blumenthal visits Ukrainian church in New Haven, backs tougher sanctions against Russia (New Haven Register) 08/03/2014
Senior Advisor to Rebel Commander Confirms Extrajudicial Executions in Ukraine (Mashable) 08/03/2014
Ukraine Crisis Could Hinder Russian Market Expansion (Defense News) 08/03/2014
Ukraine's frontline troops, surrounded by enemies (Washington Post) 08/03/2014
Ukraine's army on outskirts of rebel stronghold (Chron.com/AP) 08/03/2014
Nine civilians killed in fighting in east Ukraine (Reuters) 08/03/2014
Ukraine crisis: Rebels in Donetsk say discipline is good after they carried out executions to 'prevent chaos' (The Independent) 08/03/2014
MH17 Probe Moves to Second Ukraine Site as Search Goes On (Bloomberg) 08/03/2014
Putin Policies Threaten Moscow’s Control of Two World War II Trophy Territories (Window on Eurasia) 08/03/2014
As Ukrainian Troops Advance on Donetsk, Rebels May Meet Their Waterloo (The Wire) 08/03/2014
Putin Needs Kudrin's Help in Ukraine Crisis (The Moscow Times) 08/03/2014
Ukraine's army on outskirts of rebel stronghold (Yahoo/AP) 08/03/2014
Obama: 'Russia Doesn't Make Anything' (RFE/RL) 08/03/2014
Words Matter – Russian Forces in Ukraine are Not ‘Militants’ or ‘Rebels’ but ‘Invaders’ and ‘Occupiers’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/03/2014
‘Ukrainians Will Never Forgive Russians for This War,’ Luhansk Resident Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/03/2014
A City Divided Over an Occupation Without End [Kyiv] (The New York Times) 08/03/2014
Separatist Cadre Hopes for a Reprise in Ukraine (The New York Times) 08/03/2014
European Sanctions Force Russian Carrier to Suspend Flights (The New York Times) 08/03/2014
Remains from Ukraine crash site sent to Kharkiv (Yahoo/AP) 08/03/2014
The cost of home: Nikita Krylov perseveres in war-torn Ukraine (MMAFighting.com) 08/02/2014
Ukraine crisis slows Daimler's Russian growth - CEO in paper (Reuters) 08/02/2014
Ukraine denies using ballistic missiles (Deutsche Welle) 08/02/2014
Why ‘Reset’ Failed: Diplomacy with Rogues Rarely Works (World Affairs Journal) 08/02/2014
NATO must respond to Russia: Cameron (Yahoo/AFP) 08/02/2014
MH17 Investigators Find More Remains on Second Search Day (Businessweek) 08/02/2014
Ukrainian orphan finds a home in Cary – but only temporarily (News & Observer) 08/02/2014
Ukraine's rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death (Daily Telegraph) 08/02/2014
Ukrainian trafficker shot dead by Slovak police (GlobalPost/Xinhua) 08/02/2014
Dauphin festival highlights Ukrainian-Canadian culture (CTV News) 08/02/2014
Putin in a Ukrainian pickle (Bangkok Post/AFP) 08/02/2014
Russian Refugees from Ukraine in Daghestan Don’t Want to Stay There (Window on Eurasia) 08/02/2014
Putin’s ‘Russian World’ Said a Model for Dispersed Non-Russian Nations within Russian Federation (Window on Eurasia) 08/02/2014
Moscow’s Plans for ‘Single Russian Super-Ethnos’ Sparking Anger among Non-Russians, North Caucasus Scholar Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/02/2014
Moscow Blocks Siberian Message on One Site Only to Have It Appear on Another (Window on Eurasia) 08/02/2014
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00 hrs, 1 August 2014 (Kyiv time) (OSCE) 08/02/2014
Ukraine crisis: Rebel adviser 'admits executions' (BBC) 08/02/2014
Honcharenko murder: Questions unanswered – and unasked (KHPG) 08/02/2014
Crimean opposition channel comes under attack (KHPG) 08/02/2014
UK general: Ukraine crisis holds lessons for NATO (Yahoo/AP) 08/02/2014
Obama, Putin discuss Ukraine, missile treaty (Yahoo/AP) 08/02/2014
UK prime minister says NATO must rethink Russia (Yahoo/AP) 08/02/2014
More human remains recovered at Ukraine site (Yahoo/AP) 08/02/2014
Outbreak of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh kills 15 (Yahoo/AP) 08/02/2014
Opinion: Ukraine conflict shows Europe’s weakness for Moscow’s propaganda (Euractiv) 08/01/2014
Russia Has Set Up Anti-Aircraft Missile Complex “Osa” 1 Kilometer from Ukrainian Border (Censor.net.ua) 08/01/2014
Ukraine's border guard gets $8 million boost from U.S. (UPI) 08/01/2014
Trying Times in a Ukrainian Town Called Happiness (Wall Street Journal) 08/01/2014
Ukraine may defeat the rebels but that won't solve most of its problems. By Mark Adomanis (Quartz) 08/01/2014
Ukrainian volunteer fighters with a luxurious seaside residence (Financial Times) 08/01/2014
Underground Art Collective Strikes Ukrainian Rebel Stronghold (Foreign Policy) 08/01/2014
White House Adviser Goes Ballistic After Republicans Block Russian Ambassador Nominee (Yahoo/Business Insider) 08/01/2014
German Lawmakers Push to Stop [French] Warship Delivery to Russia (Bloomberg) 08/01/2014
Russian Jets on the Prowl as MH17 Probe Pushes On (Bloomberg) 08/01/2014
Op-ed: A Russian soldier’s ‘Ukraine selfies’ are not evidence, they’re war art [[BRAMA: Photographs are always intelligence, no matter the source.] (Guardian) 08/01/2014
Op-ed: Let Eastern Ukraine Go. By Blake Fleetwood [BRAMA: Unfortunately, Blake Fleetwood doesn't understand the global implications.] (Huffington Post) 08/01/2014
G-7 Nations Said to Oppose New World Bank Russia Projects (Bloomberg) 08/01/2014
Ukraine detains central banker in suspected theft of $170 million (Reuters) 08/01/2014
Rebel conflict imperils Ukraine's steel industry (Reuters) 08/01/2014
Ukraine premier stays on, envoys agree on crash site route (Reuters) 08/01/2014
‘Ukraine Diaries’, by Andrey Kurkov. Review by John Thornhill (Financial Times) 08/01/2014
Crimea and Chechnya Differ Only in that One Wanted to Join Russia and the Other to Leave, British MP Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/01/2014
The Nation Accuses Ukraine Of Plotting To Seize Its Own Territory (Forbes) 08/01/2014
To Weaken Crimean Tatars, Moscow Pushing New Multi-Ethnic Group in the Russian Occupied Peninsula (Window on Eurasia) 08/01/2014
Helsinki Final Act at 39 – Soviet Diplomacy’s ‘Fatal Triumph’ (Window on Eurasia) 08/01/2014
Crimea: March of the Tatars (VICE News) 08/01/2014
Ukraine's fightback has surprised the Kremlin (Chatham House) 08/01/2014
Donetsk ‘Republic’ Leaders’ Morale Plummeting (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/01/2014
Ukraine Claims Energy Losses for Crimean Annexation Reach $300 Billion (Eurasia Daily Monitor) 08/01/2014
Keeping Crimea on the agenda (KHPG) 08/01/2014
Few Conservatives But Many Soviet Traditionalists Exist in Russia, Moscow Sociologist Says (Window on Eurasia) 08/01/2014
Europe started WWI a century ago, blind to tragedy (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Large expert team reaches Ukraine crash site (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Russia takes in Crimean clubs, Ukraine upset (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Ukraine: Investigators start jet crash site search (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Ukraine, Russia spar over soccer in Crimea (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Obama: Russia, Putin ignoring their own interests (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, based on information received as of 18:00hrs, 31 July 2014 (Kyiv time) (OSCE) 08/01/2014
Supplying The Front Lines In Eastern Ukraine (RFE/RL) 08/01/2014
Podcast: Vladimir The Ideologue Vs. Putin The Pragmatist (PODCAST) (RFE/RL) 08/01/2014
Vox Pop: Muscovites On New Western Sanctions (RFE/RL) 08/01/2014
Ukraine Army Confirms At Least 14 Deaths From Pro-Russian 'Ambush' (RFE/RL) 08/01/2014
AP Analysis: Putin cornered over Ukraine (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
Ukrainian troops suffer heavy loss in ambush (Yahoo/AP) 08/01/2014
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