Russian human rights groups will soon file about 17,000 lawsuits from Ukrainian citizens in the European court. They seek compensation of about $5.6 billion over numerous rights violations committed by pro-Kiev military during the conflict in Donbass.

Readers of LiveJournal, inspired by a banner put up in one of Ukrainian cities, proclaiming that “A Ukrainian holidaying in the occupied by Ruskis Crimea is no longer Ukrainian”, decided to add more qualities depriving Ukrainians of their proud names to the list...

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has voiced concern over new statements by US Air Force secretary, who called Russia “the biggest threat to US security” and added that this claim had nothing to do with Moscow’s actual actions.

Wearing camouflage, with a bushy salt-and-pepper beard flowing over his chest and a bowie knife sheathed prominently in his belt, the man cut a fearsome figure in the nearly empty restaurant. Waiters hovered apprehensively near the kitchen, and try as he might, the man who calls himself “Muslim,” a former Chechen warlord, could not wave them over for more tea.

Ukraine is set to form a Crimean Tatar battalion and name it “Crimea”; it will be the first volunteer Muslim unit in its Armed Forces, and directly subordinate to the Chief of Staff.

Politicians and cameras will converge on Srebrenica this weekend and talk endlessly of “genocide.” Not only is that an inappropriate description of the tragic events in 1995, its misuse has resulted in many more “humanitarian” deaths worldwide.

The Ukrainian government is trying to asphyxiate the independence movement in the Donbass region through a full-out economic blockade, Polish war correspondent David Hudziec notes.

At the exit from Mukachevo in the area of Chervona Hirka exchange of fire occurred between the militants from the Right Sector, local businessmen guard forces and policemen.

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister said Saturday that Moscow allegedly could be behind the shootout between the Right Sector ultra-nationalist militia and Ukrainian police that occurred earlier in the day in the western Ukrainian town of Mukacheve.

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister said Saturday that Moscow allegedly could be behind the shootout between the Right Sector ultra-nationalist militia and Ukrainian police that occurred earlier in the day in the western Ukrainian town of Mukacheve.

News reels with daring American soldiers, the underwriters of the global democracy, striking at the heart of yet another impeding threat, are aired day in day out by the world media.