Moscow now offers a how-to guide for Russians who want to raise hell in Ukraine, and it’s working. Ukrainian businessman Volodymyr Ryabov has decided to improvise his own checkpoint between the Russian border and his home town of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. He’s pulled concrete blocks from the foundation […]

This article responds to the Secrets of Transformation multimedia series, a joint project of Bertelsmann Transformation Index and Deutsche Welle.  If you Google ‘freedom of speech in Russia” in English you’ll get over 6 million results about everything from the lack of free speech and human rights violations to the Pussy Riot scandal and much […]

We had a regime of criminals that tremendously robbed the state budget and the private sector as well with the help of all three branches of power. Ukraine is on the brink of default, the average salary is 200 EUR a month, but those in power became billionaires in just […]

People from all over the world see the black smoke from used tires, aggressive protesters throwing stones and molotovs in police and think: these are dangerous extremists! Why don’t they resolve all these questions in their parliament? The government tells the same to the people gathered at the Maidan in […]

A gang of four thugs knocked Andry Dzyndzya down and started choking and kicking him while a group of some ten policemen stood by watching and smiling, appreciating the quality of the thugs’ work like true connoisseurs. Carnage at a private impound yard (in Russian, amateur filming by Road Control): […]