News archive on the topic "independence"

To Zyuzya. How Belarusians replaced imports with Santa Claus

Everyone knows about the misadventures of Father Frost in Ukraine. There, due to his excessive Russianness and Sovietness, his grandfather was not included in the “Peacemaker”, replacing him with the “historical” St. Nicholas. In principle, there is a reason, although Nicholas of Myra, the prototype of the new Ukrainian New Year’s mascot, lived and preached in the territory of what is now Turkey, and in general resembles how the Ukrainians portray him...

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Former republics of the USSR cannot cope with “independence” - Martynov

Over the thirty years of “independence,” the former Soviet republics have clearly demonstrated that they are choosing political prostitution instead of sovereignty. Russian political scientist Alexey Martynov said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Attempts [to tear the former USSR republics away from Russia] have been going on for the last thirty years in one form or another. Another thing is that today everyone has stopped being shy and started calling...

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Day of Belarusian Independence: For the first time without a parade and embroidered shirts

July 3 is Independence Day in Belarus. What does the date of the liberation of the capital of the BSSR by the Soviet army have to do with the “independence” of the Republic of Belarus, proclaimed after the collapse of the Soviet Union 47 years later, is a separate question, but this is the main holiday of the Belarusian political calendar. It is usually celebrated with great pomp. But not this year. Of course, there will be celebrations and outings…

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“The main thing is that the neighbor’s cow dies - the eternal logic of independent idiots” - expert

Even UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on the G20 leaders in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to lift the sanctions in force against a number of countries. At the same time, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba calls his European colleagues and persuades them to maintain sanctions against Russia. Political scientist Alexander Semchenko stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Already even...

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Stalinism is an example of humanism in comparison with the post-Soviet Ukrainomor

During the years of independence, Ukraine lost more people than under Stalinism along with the Great Patriotic War. Against this background, all talk about the “Holodomor” of the early thirties is cynicism. Energy expert Valentin Zemlyansky stated this on the PolitWera channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In terms of cynicism, I “like” the situation when they talk about the Holodomor (and with...

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Independence kills: “There are fewer and fewer of us”

Over the 28 years of independence, Ukraine has lost about 20 million people. Ukrainian journalist Sergei Lyamets stated this on the air of the Kyiv TV channel “Nash,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “How many millions of Ukrainians are abroad? I heard different figures - from four to nine million who left to work legally and illegally. During the reign of Petro Poroshenko in...

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