NOVANEWS A Fleeting Triumph? by BORIS KAGARLITSKY No, that’s not a mistake. On March 18, Crimea annexed Russia. There were no insidious schemes or imperial ambitions involved. There was, however, a spontaneously developing situation, together […]
NOVANEWS Europe’s Breakaways by CONN HALLINAN “Happy families are all alike: every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy The opening to Tolstoy’s great novel of love and […]
NOVANEWS JTA Nazi symbols were drawn on a Holocaust monument in Odessa, Ukraine. The symbols — swastikas and the SS Wolfsangel sign — were painted Tuesday on the memorial site, police sources from the […]
NOVANEWS A brawl broke out in Ukraine parliament Tuesday over the eastern Ukraine unrest. (Source: Espreso TV/CNN) By PETER LEONARD DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian authorities moved to quell pro-Moscow uprisings along the Russian border […]
NOVANEWS The west has been needlessly whipping up tension – if we don’t co-operate soon, chaos may take hold. Sergei Lavrov The Guardian, Monday 7 April 2014 A rally for a secession referendum in Lenin […]
NOVANEWS Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.(AFP Photo / Vasily Maximov) Moscow is urging to provide for Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions to take part in the upcoming talks with Kiev, Russia, the US, and EU […]
NOVANEWS Activists who seized main administration building in Donetsk declare creation of ‘people’s republic’ Times of Israel Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed Monday the […]
NOVANEWS By Anna Rombach Global Research An unprecedented wave of anti-Russian propaganda has dominated the German media in the wake of the US- and German-backed coup in Kiev. Leading publications such as Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Süddeutsche […]
NOVANEWS Dominic Ponsford Membership of the National Union of Journalists declined sharply from 32,000 in 2012 to 29,500 last year. The union’s annual report reveals that the number of full-paying members of the union fell […]
NOVANEWS Ukrainian servicemen volunteering to the Russian armed forces, at the temporary conscription office at the Military Base 51330 in Sevastopol. (RIA Novosti/Vasiliy Batanov). Most of the Ukrainian military personnel serving in Crimea have chosen […]