Ukrainian legislative assembly, the Rada has passed a resolution calling for recognition of the mass starvation event in early 1930’s Ukraine known as “Holodomor” as genocide. While there is no question that millions of people died of hunger in 1932-1933 in the Ukraine and in other parts of the Soviet…
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov suggested that president elect Trump should consider one of their aircraft for the Air Force One program. Having apparently become aware of Mr. Trump’s comments as to the excessive price tag of the project with Boeing as the primary contractor, Antonov took to Trump’s favorite social…
Ukrainian parliament, the Rada, is contemplating two resolutions to take the country out of the nuclear non-proliferation agreement. Ukraine unilaterally renounced its status as a de-facto nuclear-armed power after the breakup of the USSR, when in 1994 it signed the Budapest Memorandum. Under the terms of this memorandum, Ukraine removed…
Interfax is reporting that the Eurovision 2017 organizing committee is considering moving the singing contest from Kiev to Russia. This is due to bureaucratic delays and lack of commitment on the part of the Ukrainian authorities for the preparation of the event, says the German periodical Bild. The contest last…
Is Ukrainian Soil Soaked With Too Much Blood?
Ukrainian media are quoting Ukrainian President Piotr Poroshenko as saying that the Ukrainian people have experienced a real “high” from the recent firing exercise of anti-aircraft S-300 missiles by the Ukrainian armed forces in the vicinity of the Crimean Peninsula. According to Poroshenko, this was attested by the many phone…
Russia And Ukraine On The Brink Of War, Crimea Heats Up
Ukrainian authorities are stating their intention to build a 150 meter (450 foot) telecommunications tower directly adjacent to the Crimean Peninsula for the purposes of enabling Ukrainian radio and TV transmissions into the territory. This was announced by the Ukrainian deputy communications minister Artyom Bidenko on his Facebook page.
As winter approaches, the temperature has gotten exponentially hotter on the Crimean Peninsula and Ukraine’s border with Russia. It is as if both Moscow and Kiev can see the writing on the wall, that a final solution is about to be imposed to the smoldering contest for dominance in Ukraine’s…