After the ‘LPR’ and the ‘DPR’, the two “People’s Republics’ in Eastern Ukraine, Zaporoje has become the next region in line to apply for a Special Status from Kiev. Although admittedly the extent of Zaporojie’s demands fall far short of the level of ambitions in Donbass.  

Headlines coming out of America this week are somewhat confusing as the economy is the greatest it has ever been, although there are more children in poverty than ever before. Obama pours more gasoline on the Middle Eastern fire in an attempt to bring peace, while a top Democrat operative advocates concentration camps for thought criminals.

The US and EU are taking great pains to find a substitute for Russia's gas, Scottish researcher and writer Steven MacMillan notes, adding that Azerbaijan and Norway may potentially play a pivotal role.

Ukraine may be on its way to peace, as the Verkhovna Rada is working on the country’s decentralization process, Le Huffington Post reported.

There seems little doubt that Western so-called democracies are gravitating toward increasingly autocratic politics. Executive power is being exercised by secret policy formulation, to be imposed on the electorate, or on other countries, with no regard for democratic oversight.

The political and military outcome of the Ukrainian crisis will largely be decided by the United States and Russia not Kiev or anyone else involved in the peace talks, stated American think-tank Stratfor, adding that a newly-minted bilateral format might be instrumental in this.

The crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 has been used to enforce sanctions against Russia and is fundamental to Washington’s efforts to break the Russia-Europe relationship, Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, tells RT.

In an article published at the New Atlanticist, Political Science Professor Alexander Moytl of Rutgers University wrote the strongest justification a Ukrainian Nationalist scholar can mount in defense of the Ukraine”s love affair with the nationalism of Stepan Bandera.

With debris of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 still covering the crash site in eastern Ukraine, the investigation of the July 17, 2014 tragedy is surrounded by secrecy. RT talked to international experts and the victims’ families, still waiting for answers.

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.