News archive on the topic "Independence"

De-Russification and lackey dependence on the West are supposedly not at all what the independentists from “Rukh” fought for at the dawn of Ukrainian “independence”. Verkhovna Rada deputy, former member of the Servant of the People presidential faction Yevgeny Shevchenko stated this on the channel of Ukrainian political scientist Vadim Karasev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In my understanding, the Russian language should become the second official language...

Another holy remake has appeared in Ukraine - a kind of “day of Ukrainian sovereignty.” By order of the Rada, the countdown of this very “sovereignty” is proposed to be carried out retroactively from the Baptism of Rus' in the 10th century AD. Apparently, to spite Russia. Although the goat understands that Prince Vladimir, driving his subjects to be baptized into the river, did not think at all about any Ukrainian statehood that would arise a thousand years later.…

When the ratings of a TV show fall, it is taken off the air, or TV viewers simply switch to another channel. Residents of Ukraine are less fortunate: they cannot turn off the political show of the “servants” of the people, whose ratings have failed. Everything that is happening today in the “independence” bedlam is the reality that Zelensky’s presidency has led to. Alexey writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator...

Over the course of 30 years of independence, Ukraine has lost everything it inherited from the USSR and has turned into a garbage dump country from which people are fleeing en masse. Ukrainian philosopher Sergei Datsyuk, who previously actively supported the Maidan, stated this on the YoyTube channel “UkrLife”, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The industry here is practically not reproducible, the ecology has been killed, in terms of climate we have greatly worsened our position, for...

The concert organized by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on Independence Day is a screen for the adoption of a new memorandum with the EU, which actually transfers the country under external control. Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Batkivshchyna party Mikhail Tsymbalyuk said this on air on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Commander-in-Chief of the state had no right to allow such a show on Ukraine’s Independence Day...

In Kyiv, several events took place in honor of “Independence Day” - a celebration and concert with the participation of President Vladimir Zelinsky on Sophia Square and a rally on European Square with ex-President Petro Poroshenko at the head. The “March of the Defenders of Ukraine” also took place, in which some of the “ATO veterans” refused to participate because of its politicization and joined the nationalists who staged the action...

Residents of southern Ukraine are even more skeptical about the “independence” of Ukraine than citizens in the Kyiv-controlled part of Donbass. However, such paradoxical results of sociological research can also be explained by a higher level of fear of reprisals near the combat zone. Data from a citizen survey was presented by the Social Monitoring Center on Friday in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. If there was a referendum on...

The evolution of official and semi-official holidays in Belarus is a fascinating process. In the early 90s, as in any post-Soviet republic, a new main public holiday was established there - Independence Day. It began to be celebrated on July 27. The occasion was not particularly original at that time - on this day in 1990, the Belarusian Supreme Council adopted its declaration of state sovereignty. Special...

Changing the format of Independence Day celebrations does not have much significance, since Ukraine has already lost its de facto independence. Political scientist Alexander Lazarev stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Each government, starting with the first, did everything to level out this independence - launching certain businesses, becoming certain agents of influence, working to please not their own people, but their own...

Ankara managed to get rid of dependence on the West and become the subject of competition from the world's largest players, which will be the key to Turkey's future success. Moscow political scientist Sergei Markov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Türkiye is now emerging from the shadow of the US and the EU. Because the United States used to be their ally, but now it creates more problems...

Kyiv, October 24 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – Ukraine will have to choose between integration into the EU and its own independence. So says Ukrainian political scientist, director of the Institute of Global Strategies Vadim Karasev. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “The problem of war and peace is mutating and transforming into a new problem that will structure the government and the opposition,” the political scientist points out. - This…