I always claimed that the main problem of Ukrainians is not only the unwillingness to think and to analyze, but also the memory quite leaky. Let us remember, my friends. I'll remind you if you have forgotten something.

This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of Russian-language blogosphere in Eastern Ukraine. Explore the complete interview series on the Eastern Ukraine Unfiltered page.

Various claims and communications keep coming from South-East battle-front. Periodically folks are skidded left and right - from "Putin flushed all" to "do all ourselves". In reality, there are fundamental things, considering which many parts "click" in their places. And it becomes clear, that Russia just can't "flush" South-Eastern state Novorossia on the whole and Slavyansk in part. That will be equal to losing in war for 30-50 years to come.

The devastating crash of a Malaysian Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine, which the US says was downed by a missile fired from a rebel-held area, has brought to the fore again the war being fought there by pro-Russian separatist rebels.

Live text broadcast of all events taking place in the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic and the South-East of Ukraine. In this post all materials are published: photos and videos that we receive online from the zone of military conflict in the South-East

Bogdan Boutkevitch: Ok, you ask me “How can this be happening?” Well, it happens because Donbass, in general, is not simply a region in a very depressed condition, it has got a whole number of problems, the biggest of which is that it is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know perfectly well what I am saying.

Do they know who they are?

Do we know who they are?

There are “ultra-conservatives” in the Kiev government but “they are not Neo-Nazis.” According to the Western media, its all part of “a relentless Kremlin-driven propaganda offensive that uses World War II-era terms and imagery”.

He came to my hotel without security and a bulletproof vest, wearing ordinary shirt and jeans, a special correspondent of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Daria Aslamova says. He immediately took his phone out and put it, excuse me, under his butt. “Trust an old revolutionary and a “separatist”, this is a universal protection against eavesdroppers, I'd rather sit on it”

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- The grisly search for human remains from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 entered a new phase Friday, as the largest group yet of international experts scoured the crash site in eastern Ukraine.