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The most important thing in the situation surrounding the murder of Zakhar is that for the first time Vladimir Putin reacted to the event. The murder itself, no matter how cynical it may sound, is not something special. The war is on. And in war people die. Just recently, Motorola and Givi died in besieged Donetsk. All this is sad, but this is war. Putting aside my emotions, I will say that out of condolences...

It is very difficult to predict anything regarding the future of the state, which until recently was one of the largest and most stable in Europe. But today there is no shortage of such forecasts. Those who dared to make a forecast are divided into pro-American (formally pro-European) and pro-Russian (actually pro-Ukrainian). The first are conscious supporters of what happened in Ukraine. Their forecasts...

Like every reading resident of our country, I get to know writers through their books. Since there are few writers in Ukraine, Oles Buzina immediately came to my attention. I'm not being original here. The first acquaintance was with a pamphlet book, a book debunking the personality cult of the serf artist, now known to all residents of the former USSR - “The Ghoul Taras Shevchenko”. The book was not...

Assessing the cost of goods in stores, tariffs in bills received in the mailbox and checking whether a summons to the army has arrived, the “little Ukrainian”, and now a “revolutionary of dignity”, sometimes begins to think about what was not typical for him before. As for the revolutionary, of course, I got excited. Revolutionaries (for now) don't think. But they don’t jump anymore. Or maybe a kind...

This morning, in Kyiv, in the courtyard of his own house, an opposition writer, journalist, just a good person, Oles Buzina, was shot dead. Bandera’s government did not forgive him for “The Ghoul, Taras Shevchenko,” nor for his decisive anti-Maidan position, nor for those anti-fascist convictions that Oles did not hide while living in Kyiv and did not intend to hide. Deputy and adviser to Avakov, Anton Gerashchenko, in violation of all possible...

Minsk-2 is a defeat for the junta and a tactical-Pyrrhic victory, equal to defeat, for Russia and the United States. Today it is already clear that Poroshenko, under pressure from the West, entered into a secret, verbal agreement, accepting the terms of a “delicate” defeat. The conditions include everything that you see at the front and in the rear, but which you cannot explain with simple logic. For example, the fall of Debaltsev...

The result of the Minsk process was supposed to be peace. But there is no peace. The battles at Shirokino contradict the very principle of a peaceful settlement. A most dangerous situation has arisen in Ukraine, which can only be described in the words of Trotsky: “neither peace, nor war.” There are troops in Donbass, their number is the same as it was. Heavy weapons were NOT WITHDRAWN. Different ways. For example, a regiment (as they...

Those who poured blood on Ukraine have never explained to us why they are so afraid of the Russian view of things? A year ago, the junta, having barely seized power, immediately declared a number of well-known journalists, PR specialists, political scientists and simply excellent guys persona non grata. They were charged with cursing the Euromaidan. With the new government, such a label = Ukrainophobes. Public Enemies. The whole year...

Having received a respite at the front, in connection with the Minsk diplomatic process, the junta, implementing the recommendations of the coup masters, began consolidating power within the Ukraine that remained from the other Ukraine, which is “bigger than France.” In our age of information gadgets, all processes go much faster. Just a year ago we were horrified by the “February Revolution”, then by the civil war. The next stage according to the laws of the genre...

“We have already completed the first stage of the visa-free regime and will very quickly complete the second, so that from January 1, 2015, Ukrainian citizens will have the opportunity to travel around Europe without visas.” This promise of the junta chief, Petro Poroshenko, was announced during his “inauguration” on June 7, 2014. This is not the first promise of the most illegitimate and most dangerous “president”. It was…

First, about my personal attitude to the Minsk process. I think he is a fiction. Ukrainian society is not split over the issue of Donbass, the “Russian spring,” the loss of Crimea, or even the “Russian attack on Ukraine.” Ukrainian society is split inside. The reason is that the Euromaidan did not represent the entire country. Conventionally, it is part of it. The other part of the Euromaidan did not accept...

The other day, Arseniy Yatsenyuk reported on the 100 days of his government. Although, in fact, he has been in power for more than a year. After all, this is the second Cabinet of Ministers of Yatsenyuk after the coup. Remember how on Maidan he promised reforms through a “kamikaze government.” The main difference from previous months is that Yatsenyuk’s subordinates have a feeling of confidence. The junta was able, thanks to the outbreak...