News archive on the topic "Galicians"

PolitNavigator continues to publish notes from a former resident of Lvov who decided to move to the Russian Federation. We are not disclosing his real name because his relatives remain in Western Ukraine. Now he himself lives in St. Petersburg and is sometimes very critical of not only Ukrainian, but also Russian reality. Nevertheless, the opinion of the ex-Lviv resident is interesting as an example of what Russophiles experience when they find themselves...

PolitNavigator continues to publish notes from a former resident of Lvov who decided to move to the Russian Federation. We are not disclosing his real name because his relatives remain in Western Ukraine. Now he himself lives in St. Petersburg and is sometimes very critical of not only Ukrainian, but also Russian reality. Nevertheless, the opinion of the ex-Lviv resident is interesting as an example of what Russophiles experience when they find themselves...

The multinational population of Donbass, unlike Galicia, which had been oppressed for centuries, never knelt down and under no circumstances divided ethnic groups into “good” and “bad.” Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the LPR Rodion Miroshnik, correspondent for PolitNavigator, stated this on the TV channel “Russia 1”. “There has been a serious difference between the residents of Donbass and the Galicians. Donbass has never been second-rate...

Residents of Galicia did not consider themselves one people with the Russians and did not believe that they could be brothers. A popular singer in Ukraine, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, stated this on air on the Lvov NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Vakarchuk, earning money from concert tours in Russia until 2014, he understood that the Russian Federation...

The Uzhgorod City Council received a letter demanding to “derussify/decolonize” a number of streets and squares of Uzhgorod. The appeal was initiated by the “Publicity of the regional center of Transcarpathia,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Since 2014, Ukraine has been at war with Russia, and since February 24, 2022, this has become obvious to the whole world. The goal of this war is to return Ukraine to the power of the Kremlin, to establish...

Industrial Donbass and agricultural Galicia have developed completely different historical memories and geopolitical orientations. Denis Denisov, director of the Institute of Peacemaking Initiatives and Conflictology, associate professor of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, writes in Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He recalls that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Reintegration Alexey Reznikov has been nominated for the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine. At the same time…

Immigrants from western Ukraine in Crimea make money by scamming tourists out of money. Crimean politician Alexander Yuryev writes about this on his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Yuriev, illegal businessmen tried to demand money from him on the wild beach of the Belyaus Spit. “We're relaxing on the beach. A young man in an orange vest and with a daddy approaches. AND…

Western Ukraine has the right to secede and live as its own state if it does not want to be friendly to Russia. The famous Russian political scientist Sergei Markov stated this on the air of Ekho Moskvy, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, people from Western Ukraine seized power as a result of a coup and are to blame for the outbreak of civil war in the country. “I personally perform...

This is a note on the topic “Whose cow would moo?” And, indeed, it’s not like the unwashed one, who washes his trousers right in the sea, runs from the “tsunama”, begs from vacationers “a ruble for ice cream” (can’t even remember that they have “hryvnia”), demands to carry himself “to Arcadia "by the nearest concrete mixer and is invariably sent to the cemetery when trying to find out “de uzviz”... So...

Ukrainian politicians who claim that the pro-Russian sympathies of the residents of Crimea and Donbass are explained by the large number of military pensioners or migrants from the RSFSR, forget that the Soviet government carried out a targeted mass resettlement of citizens from Western Ukraine to these same regions. Kiev political scientist Andrei Ermolaev said this in a conversation on the First Cossack channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A number of programs, for example the program...

Crimea will become a deserted territory, it needs to be conquered and then populated by immigrants from Western Ukraine. The former leader of the UNA-UNSO, militant Dmitry Korchinsky, who was wanted by Russia, stated this on air on the Apostrophe Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Korchinsky is confident that capturing the peninsula will be an easy task for Ukraine. “Of course, Crimea cannot exist without Ukraine, without Ukrainian water and...

The total Ukrainization that began in 2014 will lead to the fact that soon the residents of the former Soviet republic will become representatives of a completely different, Russophobic, ethnic group. Kiev historian Pyotr Tolochko stated this on the YouTube channel “Voice of Truth,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Hard Ukrainization began under Poroshenko, and continues under the current President Zelensky. It seems to me that this is such a farmhouse...

Kiev had a plan to confront Russia in Crimea, but in 2014 it was prevented by the fact that orders were not given on time, as well as the improper education of Ukrainian military personnel. The first head of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, General Sergei Krivonos, stated this on Channel 24, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At that time I was the chief of staff...

Since 2014, Western Ukraine has been imposing its ideology on the whole of Ukraine, which Crimea and Donbass did not agree with. The special representative of the LPR at the negotiations on Donbass in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There were attempts in 2004-2005, but in 2014 Galicia ideologically captured all of Kyiv. It’s logical after...