All news for 4.04.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX

There is practically no news from Donbass in the Western information space. More precisely, only those that can confirm the political thesis about Ukraine as a “victim of Russian aggression” are published. Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski talks about this in his column for PolitNavigator. The fact that a 5-year-old child died in the village of Aleksandrovka from an attack by Ukrainian drones is almost unknown in the West...

There is nothing humiliating in the name “Little Russians” for the residents of Ukraine. In general, initially the term “Ukraine” had an exclusively geographical connotation - this was the name given to the border lands of a Russian principality, so it is stupid to talk about the “Ukrainian nation”. Historian Evgeny Spitsyn stated this on air on Radio Aurora, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Initially, the term “Ukraine” had exclusively geographical connotations. Take that...

The creation of an artificial “Ukrainian nation” turns out to be a deception, because all the benefits are received by the independent elite, but the well-being of the people does not grow. The former editor of the Economic Pravda publication, Sergei Lyamets, stated this on the Politeka online Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The unification of France took place under the slogan: “We are all French,” but what are the French? This is an artificial category that became real when...

The liberal Yabloko party made significant changes to its charter at the 21st congress, which took place over the weekend, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The charter was updated by three quarters. The main changes affected entry and membership. Now you can become a Yabloko member only after a year of probation and on the recommendation of two experienced (three years of experience) party members. The creator and ideologist of Yabloko...

The American command is supplying weapons to militants of the Islamic State (IS, ISIS - banned in Russia) in refugee camps. The Russian and Syrian commissions for the return of Syrian refugees made a joint statement on the situation in the camps. It says that the United States is preventing the return of Syrians to territories liberated from militants. The US presence is worsening conditions in the camps, especially in the Al-Hol camp.…

...but in a month it will be seven years since the Odessa tragedy on May 2. Seven years. It's a bit of a shock, isn't it? And during all these seven years, the memory of the victims was only spat upon by the authorities - no memorial, no results of the investigation, no bringing to justice even those executioners whom the whole world knows from videos from the Internet. These were seven...

The same supporters of the Serbian opposition continue to speak in various Russian media with the aim of convincing official Moscow to stop supporting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. The opposition continued the tactic of holding round tables, this time for the event “Kosovo Crisis: Is a Solution Possible?” using the Public News Service (OSN) platform. Same and new site. It is typical that the central characters...

The escalation in Donbass surprisingly repeats the events of 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili ordered an attack on the rebellious province of South Ossetia. Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The situation at the front: the disposition of one unit has been unraveled. In broad daylight, art. There are no dead or wounded, it’s already good. Where and whose unit is not...

The defenders of Donbass are held back by the fact that their cities and their people are behind the front line, unlike the Ukrainian occupiers, to whom everything is alien on both sides of the border. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this via video link from Donetsk on Solovyov Live, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Of course, I don’t want war at all. It is clear that the first fire strike is...

In the Donbass republics there are no illusions about Ukraine’s plans, but perhaps the factor of personal cowardice of President Vladimir Zelensky, who still remembers the words of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, will work. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this via video link from Donetsk on Solovyov Live, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I see that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun to use ISIS technology when they install grenade launchers on trucks...