The need of the Kremlin regime to support the propaganda and outright lies of RT and other government-controlled information sources about the war against Ukraine and other important issues is being rapidly reflected in the shut-down of independent news sources. 

 

Until today, no episcopal ordination had taken place in Ancient Halych since the reign of King Danylo in the 13th century.

 

< Newly ordained Bishop Joshaphat (Moshchych)

What Putin ultimately fears is not Western sanctions, but a united, strong and resolute Western response. A precondition for this is that the EU steps up its game once and for all and begins to take security seriously. This is the real test for European leaders. 

 

UBO Commentary: UBO is impressed with the metropolitan’s perception that the world is on “is one step away from a declaration of global war.” However, we would be much more impressed if the metropolitan had gone one step further and pointed out what is evident to all those who honestly consider this problem, i.e. that the principal instigator of the problems that could lead to war is one of his Moscow Patriarchate parishioners – one Vladimir V. Putin.

 

Published transcripts of intercepts evidenced Bezler discussing his abduction and later murder of Volodymyr Rybak, a Horlivka city council member who had opposed the rebels and tried to remove their flag from city offices.

 

< Igor Bezler addressing Horlivka police officers in April 2014.

"The Russian economy was already in a difficult phase before the crisis and now it has been further impaired," Zetsche was quoted as saying.

 

"That has an effect on the Russian passenger vehicle market and also on Daimler. In the first half-year we made an increase of 20 percent in the Russian business and now the momentum is headed downward," he said.

 

Ukraine's defense minister and a NATO representative in Kyiv have denied DW reports that the Ukrainian army has been using ballistic missiles against pro-Russian separatists in the country's east.

 

With the city now back in government hands and the Ukrainian military advancing steadily against other nearby settlements that had fallen earlier this year to the pro-Russian cause, Slovyansk has become a test of whether the central government in Kiev can both win on the battlefield and win back the loyalties of its rebellious east.

Russia today, Losev says, “is not a federation but a mono-centric, harsh and unitary state, despite all the federalist dressing. There not only the heads of oblasts but even the presidents of republics are appointed by the Moscow center, [and] the empire is united by financial tranches … and military-police structures.”

 

The country’s most famous novelist Andrey Kurkov records the daily realities of life amid the tumult of Ukraine’s revolution.

 

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