All news for 17.02.2020/XNUMX/XNUMX

As a result of the “cultural war” against everything Russian, Western Ukrainian nationalists will gain the cultural field of Ukraine, but will lose everything else. Political scientist Dmitry Zaborin said this on air on the PolitWera channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This language has ceased to be needed here, within the country - it is the language of everyday communication, first of all. Book printing in Russian has been stopped, film production has been stopped, production...

In Ukraine, they celebrate the day of “independence” of the separatist Kuban People’s Republic, which was declared by individual Cossack leaders on February 16, 1918, but remained on paper. Thus, the odious Verkhovna Rada deputy, head of the inter-factional association “Kuban” Alexey Goncharenko, in his blog, announced the lost Ukrainian identity of Kuban and complained that the same could happen to Ukraine if...

Ukraine will have to negotiate with representatives of the authorities of the DPR and LPR - there is no escape from this if the authorities really think about returning these territories. Verkhovna Rada deputy, ex-speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Voloshin stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, attempts to replace these people with people from the region who moved to the territory of Ukraine…

“Modernization” of pensions deprived pensioners of Ukraine of half of the indexation, and the reduction of the insurance coefficient from 1,35 to 1 – another 35%. Economic expert Yuriy Gavrilechko stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, commenting on the initiative to introduce the so-called. “second pension,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since 2017, our state has been stealing from pensioners approximately 50% of the indexation that should be there. Before…

At the Munich conference, Vladimir Zelensky was expected to make concrete proposals to resolve the conflict in Donbass, but instead, the Ukrainian president demonstrated a meaningless acting performance. Russian liberal political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky stated this on the YouTube channel “Vlast vs Vlashchenko,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Vladimir Alexandrovich made an impression, but perhaps not the one he expected. Because the President of Ukraine...

Behind the jingoistic slogans in Ukraine are hidden processes of economic and financial separatization that could derail the latest attempts to return Donbass. Ukrainian political scientist Andrei Ermolaev stated this on the InterVizor channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Ukraine, new separatist sentiments are maturing, still in the garb of an information-ideological war, where local elites silently support such an entourage, designed language of a new redistribution in...

If Kyiv holds elections in Donbass without prior “derussification” and turning the region into a reservation, this will lead to the victory of “pro-Russian” parties and the final destruction of the “Ukraine” project. Activist of the neo-Nazi group “Democratic Axe” Yuri Gudimenko said this on Channel 5, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This idea (about holding elections in Donbass - editor’s note) existed, and...

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, will remain in power for a long time, no matter what position he holds. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this on the Politeka Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the diplomat, Putin has a feeling of a certain mission that he has not yet completed for Russia. “Putin has a sense of mission. All…

Despite the threats of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Minsk will not risk taking transit Russian oil. Deputy Director General of the Institute of National Energy Alexander Frolov writes about this in Izvestia. “Exactly 20 years ago, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma publicly admitted that his country was illegally taking Russian gas from transit volumes. And he gave it...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky needs to focus on the war in Donbass, and not make plans to return Crimea. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Ukrainian community of Crimea, Anastasia Gridchina, in a commentary to Komsomolskaya Pravda. “There is a good Ukrainian proverb: “A fool is rich in thoughts,” but this is not about Zelensky. When meeting the Ukrainian president, I would say that there is no need to build “garden cities”, hold “elections in Crimea” and climb...