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politifact: why ukraine? how an eastern european country triggered

The collapse of Soviet Union in 1991 left Ukraine with nuclear missiles it could not launch, ripe for control by oligarchs, and ambiguous relations with east and west. The primary legacy for United States was agreement with some intentionally vague words about standing by..

europe: the cracks are beginning to show

Victor Yanukovich whose base was in Eastern oblasts of Donetsk and Lugansk and head of the Party of the Regions, was elected President of Ukraine in 2010. Yanukovich, never particularly in the west and Ukraine, was ousted in the coup of 2014 supported by NATO EU, NGOs, and..

un: new ‘list of shame’ shortchanges children

In his November 2018 report on Central Africa, the secretary-general highlighted civilian casualties, including children, English-speaking regions of Cameroon, and June 2018, UNICEF, the UN children's agency, reported that 58 schools had been damaged since the beginning of the in North-West and..

a 21st-century schism

minority of the population speaks Russian as language, particularly in the east, while Ukrainian sentiment tends to be in the west and Ukraine is not necessarily indicator of one's identity or political affiliation.. ..

foreign interventions in revolutionary russia

The outcome of this confusing medley of conflicts was kind of tie Bolsheviks triumphed Russia and as west as Ukraine, and anti- Bolshevik, anti- Russian nationalists with great mutually conflicting territorial ambitions prevailed in areas further west and north, specifically..

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russian ties to ukraine go much deeper than gas

Goldberg cautioned that the ties between Moscow and Kiev go much deeper making the stakes for Russia much higher than for the west... Modern Ukraine and Russia were also part of Kievan Rus, federation of East Slavic tribes Europe from the 9th to the century. ..

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