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From Disgraced President to Ukraine's Lead Diplomat: The Unlikely Redemption of Leonid Kuchma
By Samuel Ramani, Contributor
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
On September 8, 2015, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma arrived in Minsk. He travelled to the Belarusian capital, as Ukraine's representative to the Trilateral Contact Group that seeks to end the conflict in Donbas.
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What It's Like on the Front Lines of the War in Ukraine
By Ioana Moldovan , Contributor
Freelance Photojournalist and Documentary Videographer
DONETSK -- I don't know how the landscape around Zenit looked back when the military position was first established, but these days it surely resembles the set of an apocalypse movie. Only this is real, not cardboard-made. The few standing buildings look like a poorly played Tetris game, with huge holes between their bricks. The fields like an old junkyard with rusty damaged armored vehicles and car skeletons. The ground appears like it came down with a bad case of chickenpox, all littered with craters from Grad missiles and mortar rounds. The trees have no branches, their arms amputated by shrapnel.
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Uptick In Ukraine Violence As Putin Visits Crimea
The Russian president repeated his claim that Ukraine is "being managed from the outside."
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When Ukraine Is No Longer Ukraine
By Ioana Moldovan , Contributor
Freelance Photojournalist and Documentary Videographer
DONETSK -- "Of course we want to stay in Ukraine. We were, are and want to be Ukrainians. But we just want peace, and if it will be different, it does not matter, because we just want to have bright blue sky and no shelling. I want to go back home, not to Russia, but home."
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Fighting Flares In East Ukraine
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Recollections of Pre-War Donetsk
By Miles Atkinson, Contributor
Exploring Odd Corners
The houses in the center of town had just been given fresh, clean plastic siding to impress foreign visitors for UEFA 2012, a soccer championship. Proud locals directed tourists to the gleaming new stadium where Donetsk Shakhtar played.
POLITICS
The Russians Are Not Coming II
By Reese Schonfeld, Contributor
Founding CEO of CNN
At this point it is important to remember that the Russians have veto power at the United Nations and if they had chosen they could have vetoed all UN-imposed sanctions on Iran. They did not do that.
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Ukraine: Insider Oligarchs Derail Maidan Revolution
By Nikolas Kozloff, Contributor
Author, 'Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left'
In the midst of war and heightened nationalism in Ukraine, many demonstrators who participated in protests at Maidan Square just one year ago are gripped with a profound sense of shock and wonder what has happened to their country.
RELIGION
Putin, Al-Sisi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Holocaust Remembrance
By Stephen Schwartz, Contributor
Executive Director, Center for Islamic Pluralism
In another of his pleasant encounters with world leaders, Russian president Vladimir Putin went to Egypt on February 8, staying until February 10.
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Bildt: Merkel Is Best To Solve The Crisis With Putin
POLITICS
Acknowledging the Downsides of Arming Ukraine
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National Security Dude, Observer of Congress, Currently Outsid...
These are just four reasons why a large cross-section of Americans, Europeans, Ukrainians, and Russians label a further militarization of the Ukrainian conflict as a bad idea.
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It's Time To Provide Weapons to Ukraine
By Daniel R. DePetris, Contributor
National Security Dude, Observer of Congress, Currently Outsid...
Sure, it may not work; the policy may backfire, the Ukrainian army may not be able to use the weapons effectively or they may lose some to the rebels. Putin may even decide to escalate. But guess what? Putin is already escalating.
IMPACT
Ukraine War: Shelling and Hunger Killing Civilians
By William Lambers, Contributor
Author, 'Ending World Hunger' Feeding America Blogger Council,...
They were civilians standing in line at the Rinat Akhmetov Humanitarian Centre in Donetsk, Ukraine. This was aid they needed because of the war between the government and pro-Russian separatists.
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Has Russia's War Against Ukraine Reached a Point of No Return?
By Alexander Motyl, Contributor
Ukrainian-American Political Scientist, Rutgers University
Western hopes of a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Ukraine are effectively dead. It is high time for the West to realize that Putin and his proxies have no interest in peace.
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Note to Ukraine: Stop Whitewashing the Political Record
By Nikolas Kozloff, Contributor
Author, 'Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left'
Listen too much to Kremlin pronouncements, and one might get the impression that the Ukrainian government in Kiev is comprised of nothing less than a malevolent and sinister fascist junta.
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Ukraine's Donbass and Jim Crow -- A Poor Analogy
By Lev Golinkin, Contributor
Author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka
The overwhelming majority of eastern Ukrainians currently trapped in brutal winter conditions between separatist thugs and the Ukrainian army aren't Ku Klux Klan members, or fat cat bigots who delight in oppressing their ethnic Ukrainian neighbors. They are coal miners and steelworkers and children and pensioners. They are people who've watched their lives be shelled into oblivion by both Kiev's army and paramilitary brigades and Putin's warlords, and who are now isolated in what Amnesty and the UN describe as an unfolding humanitarian crisis. Painting them as a bunch of backward anti-Western hicks is neither progressive, nor tolerant, nor liberal, nor accurate.
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Death Toll Rises In East Ukraine Despite Ceasefire
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Watch: Widespread Use of Cluster Bombs in Ukraine
By Human Rights Watch, Contributor
Defending human rights world wide
Ukrainian government forces used cluster munitions in populated areas in Donetsk city in early October 2014. The use of cluster munitions in populated areas violates the laws of war due to the indiscriminate nature of the weapon and may amount to war crimes.
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Swiss Red Cross Worker Killed By Shell In Ukraine's Donetsk
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Shelling Hits School Playground In Eastern Ukraine
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The Increasingly Bizarre Leaders Of Ukraine's Rebels
POLITICS
Legal 'Pussyrioting' Lives on in Another Russian Court Blunder
By Innokenty (Kes) Grekov, Contributor
Russia listener
The Hatchet may be on the opposite end of the political spectrum from the ultra-liberal feminists of Pussy Riot, yet like the women he was silenced for exercising Russia's constitutionally protected right to free speech.
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With the Ukrainian President
By Bernard-Henri Lévy, Contributor
French philosopher and writer
Petro Poroshenko deserves the West's support. We should follow him on the course he has chosen, which is to resist the imperialism blowing in from the east.
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Ukraine: Rebels Have Shot Down A Ukrainian Military Plane
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A Field Guide To The Bizarre And Terrifying Pro-Russian Rebels In Ukraine
By Nick Robins-Early
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