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Theses from a speech at a conference on the Minsk agreements in the European Parliament in Brussels on October 10, 2018: It is strange to hear from the parties and participants in the settlement of the conflict in Donbass such statements as: “an armed peacekeeping mission for Donbass does not contradict the Minsk agreements” or “Ukraine has extended the Law “On a special status”, implementing the “Minsk agreements”. It’s strange to hear because the peacekeeping mission, its...

In mid-June 2017, the next report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was released on the events in Ukraine in 2017. This document contains a whole series of evidence of Ukraine’s violation of the points of the Minsk Agreements and once again exposes outright lies broadcast by representatives of the Ukrainian government through controlled media. Thus, the summary of the document indicates that at present...

At the end of February, a presentation of the Humanitarian Program for the reunification of the people of Donbass took place in Donetsk. This is the first initiative of the Donbass republics of a systemic and asymmetrical nature to solve the problems of residents of parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions currently living under Ukrainian control. The program is as specific as possible and is within a strict time frame, which will allow you to evaluate it in the shortest possible time...

Like any complex and multi-level process, the Minsk agreements cannot be viewed in terms of unambiguous positive or negative. Despite the known problems, at the end of 2016, the lack of alternative to Minsk-2 is still recognized by all parties to the conflict in Donbass. It is worth highlighting several key trends and the most noticeable topics in the Minsk process in the past year. Firstly, the Ukrainian policy aimed at sabotage continued...

It is traditionally believed that sport is “outside politics”. However, the scandal surrounding the non-admission of the Russian Olympic team to the Olympic Games in Rio clearly demonstrated the illusory nature of this statement. In world practice, representatives of various states quite often use sporting events to implement their policies and convey certain messages. Sport in the modern world has become one of the continuations of politics. It's good…

Discussions continue in Ukraine regarding the introduction of an OSCE police mission to Donbass. As has been seen more than once, the President of Ukraine and his entourage exist in a parallel reality - both regarding the citizens of their own country and the international community. “The presidents of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia expressed support for the deployment of the OSCE police mission in Donbass and the start of consultations on this...

Against the background of the intensification of negotiations within the subgroups in Minsk and the relative stabilization of the situation in the East of Ukraine, some destructive forces in Russia continue to try to escalate the situation around Donbass. A few days ago, a number of media outlets close to Igor Girkin (Strelkov) circulated the message that Vladislav Surkov and his team were withdrawing from the Ukrainian direction. Such fakes are not in...

The New Year's week was marked for Ukraine by another demonstrative step by the political elite - the abandonment of neutral status and the actual start of preparations for joining NATO. This happened on Tuesday, December 23, when the Verkhovna Rada, with 303 votes in favor, approved the law introduced by Petro Poroshenko. Now the “priorities of national interests”, in particular, have been declared: “the integration of Ukraine into the European political, economic, legal space...