Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since

Eva Bartlett traveled to Crimea to see firsthand out how Crimeans have fared since 2014 when their country reunited with Russia, and what the referendum was really like.

Eva Bartlett
بواسطة Eva Bartlett
Crimea Feature photo

SIMFEROPOL, CRIMEA -- In early August I traveled to Russia for the first time, partly out of interest in seeing some of the vast country with a tourist's eyes, partly to do some journalism in the region. It also transpired that while in Moscow I was able to interview Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry. High on my travel list,

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With Tensions Mounting over Kerch Strait Incident, Will Ukraine Replace Syria as Focus for US’ Russia Containment Strategy?

As has been the case in the past, it seems that the U.S.’ botched proxy war in Syria will spur Washington to seek to revive the proxy war in Ukraine.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb

SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA -- Seemingly out of nowhere, Ukraine nearly declared war on Russia over the weekend after a confrontation in the Kerch Strait, which straddles Crimea and the Russian mainland, between Ukrainian naval boats and Russian authorities that resulted in Russia seizing three Ukrainian navy vessels and 24 Ukrainian sailors. Ukraine has

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Connecting the Diaspora to Ukraine’s Monsters Through a Ukrainian Diaspora Handler

Ukraine’s Intel operatives are working hard to con the US Congress into bankrolling Ukranian nationalists. They use this money to attack media that doesn’t support Ukraine’s right to violence against its people.

George Eliason
بواسطة George Eliason
"Volunteer Researcher" on Ukraine, Christina Dobrovolska

Over the last few articles, we looked at real-life examples of how and why Intel for hire companies are dangerous. Companies staffed with people who have no loyalties or training are generating information that gets read at the highest levels of government. This includes the (PDB) President's Daily Briefing. The President of the US uses the

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Russia’s Political Repression of Crimea’s Radical Left

The crackdown of leftist elements in Crimea is yet another move by Putin & Co. to consolidate power by smashing any potential for a radical political alternative.

Eric Draitser
بواسطة Eric Draitser
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) operatives detain suspects in their apartment. (FILE - Russian Federal Security Service/AP)

Russia’s annexation of Crimea was purportedly an exercise in free political expression, a watershed moment in history when a historic part of Russia returned to the motherland against the backdrop of a fascist putsch in Ukraine. Indeed, Crimea’s “reunification” (in Kremlin lingo) with Russia was sold, at least in part, as a humanitarian operation

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US Turns to Ukraine for Next Russia Proxy War Gambit

With Ukraine rolling out a murderous ethnic cleansing campaign in its Donbass region on the Russian border, the Russian government has responded with restraint. The new provision of arms to Ukraine by the U.S. will likely change that — and start a proxy war more dangerous than Syria’.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
John McCain Ukraine Nazi

Just weeks after announcing a plan to arm the Ukrainian government with lethal weapons, the Pentagon announced on Friday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis – who has endorsed the plan – will be traveling to Ukraine this coming week in order to reassure the government in Kiev that the U.S. is “firmly committed to the goal of restoring Ukraine’s

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US Troops “Roll Into Poland” In Largest Deployment Since Cold War

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to the buildup by saying, “These actions threaten our interests, our security. Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders,

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
U.S. Army vehicles cross the Polish border in Olszyna, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 heading for their new base in Zagan. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

(ANALYSIS) --- "American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia." That's how the AP begins its report on the first deployment of US soldiers into the central European country, previewed here earlier in the

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