Photographs that add could help confirm who was behind the Maidan killings last month.
Photographs that add could help confirm who was behind the Maidan killings last month.
And for some light relief this morning….if you get a chance to see this (and it will be coming to a cinema near you) … well, why not? It is a very laddish, but very funny, romp around Vilnius and Lithuania that never fails to tickle a cliche when it stumbles across one. True to its genre, then.
Interesting, longish piece here from the Huffington Post by a former CNN Moscow bureau chief.
Interesting piece from a thinktank on Eastern European affairs here.
and this from the BBC – Ukraine’s president warns of threat from far right (which might also be realpolitik designed to assuage the Kremlin…)
Thank God that some retain a sense of humour when so many others are on the (utterly humourless) road to war…
The latest from the ‘battle of the sexes’ on the Eastern Front….
There’s always someone willing to piss on your parade: the latest in the ongoing controversy over whether ‘them bones’ in the Leicester city car park are really the last mortal remains of King Richard III….
Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Ukrainian prime minister who was imprisoned on corruption charges before being freed after President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed last month, is to run for president in the country’s post-revolution elections in May.
Tymoshenko is yesterday’s woman and part of the country’s past. When she appeared on stage in Kiev’s Maidan Square last month (Saturday February 22) hundreds of people streamed away in disgust. There is not doubt she suffered in prison. There is also little doubt that she was a deeply divisive figure in Ukraine. The country can do without her as it seeks to move away from two decades of corrupt governance.
Ukraine’s largest cable provider has dumped state-backed Russian networks from its service, complying with court ruling this week requiring broadcasters to cut access to channels viewed as being friendly to the Kremlin….