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Referendum on the Donbas "wall": blackmail, signal or reality?

This was a signal to Russia and its Western partners, which are inclined to the option of softening their positions with respect to the Russian Federation, that Ukraine is ready to defend its territories in all possible ways. It cannot continue the way it has been going on for seven years. Whether Russia recognizes itself as a party to the conflict and fulfills the Minsk agreements, or we change our policy, including the one concerning the Minsk agreements...

Vaccination against COVID-19 in Donbas. On both sides of contact line

In addition, there is no "official" information about the number of doses that were delivered to the CADLO territory. According to the occupation authorities, they received two consignments (in early and late February) of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine. There is also no information about when the third party will arrive and in what volume...

Crimea on the verge of third wave of pandemic: more tourists, fewer precautions

Considering that Crimea has become the main summer vacation spot for the residents of the puppet Donbas "republics", the coronavirus situation on the Russian-occupied peninsula will undoubtedly quickly be projected onto the occupied Donbas. This allows us to expect a worsening of the epidemiological situation for coronavirus in the East of Ukraine closer to autumn...

End of "coal age", protracted and painful

According to the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, as of May 1, 2015, 95 mines operated in the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts under the actual control of the Russian Federation: 67 state-owned and 28 private. According to the available information, a significant part of them are flooded today...

Donbas and shale gas: a trump card in the Kremlin hands

Therefore, there are no economic grounds for the development of the Yuzivska field. This was confirmed on February 17, 2020 by the then director of the gas business of the Naftogaz of Ukraine NJSC Andriy Favorov. He noted at the presentation of the new investment program of the NJSC that the price situation on the gas market is unfavorable...

Occupied Donbas in the midst of COVID pandemic: imitation of struggle and lack of common sense

The death rate from COVID-19 in Donetsk is 4 times higher than in Luhansk. At the same time, it is the "LNR" that cancels all public events, fearing an outbreak of coronavirus, and Donetsk, on the contrary, as if defeating the pandemic, is celebrating and having fun with might and main...

Forward to the Past: Industry in the "DNR" gets back to the days of John Hughes

By the way, no one in the "DNR" leadership remembers the bold plans of 2017 to launch the Donbas buses production at Dongormash. It went wrong with the buses, but the enterprise was making metal structures for some - which in terms of creating added value is a giant step back in comparison with the production of buses...

Trips from CADLO through Russia: fines, bribes and courts

The document is currently under consideration by the relevant committee. In the meantime, residents of СADLO, who need to get to the controlled part of Ukraine, will continue to pay bribes or fines. Or hope that the border guard will not draw up a protocol. The hopes that the occupation "authorities" of СADLO will open the checkpoint on their side and people will be able to move more conveniently across the contact line are getting smaller day by day.

Mandatory vaccination, crowded hospitals and influx of tourists. The story of a nurse from the occupied Crimea

In fact, there are side effects after Sputnik. The temperature rises, the head splits and there is a weakness. This is normal after any vaccination, but for some reason, we are afraid to talk about it. Not a word...

Donbas mines: verdict is passed

All mines, most of which are located in the Donbas, will be closed. Both state and private. This is indicated by the latest trends in European and Ukrainian power industry. As well as by the decisions made by the European Commission and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine...

Russian nationalism and the fault lines of "united, indivisible Russia"

Siberian separatism intensified after the Russian occupation of Crimea and the creation of the puppet "DNR" and "LNR" in eastern Ukraine. Official propaganda went out of its way to assure Russians that every region has the right to self-determination. As it turned out, this right only applies to foreign countries...

There is no sex in the Crimea, or The story of the fight against one sex shop

Local residents note that it is better to travel to the mainland of the Russian Federation for "free rest". There are fewer and fewer opportunities for progressive youth in the Crimea...

Myths and reality of the Minsk process in the first person

Today's Minsk process is a total violation of the Minsk agreements themselves! "Minsk" today is not a dialogue between the parties on the basis of documents, but a set of dead-end "traditions" and stereotypes imposed on us by both our own authorities and the adversary

Vaccination, propaganda and "ensuing" consequences… Donetsk journal

Pushilin announced on February 26 the weakening of quarantine measures. Although it is not clear how you can weaken what in fact did not exist...

Bills on collaborators: what are they about, and is there a chance of adoption

When the barrel of a gun is pointed at you or your relatives are sitting somewhere in dungeons, it is very difficult to resist. But if this is a conscious and voluntary choice of a person, then we should give a fair answer to it...

What is happening in the Donbas? Analysis and forecast of the conflict's course

However, today, there is a light at the end of the tunnel more than ever - a real hope for the possibility of the region return in the foreseeable future. It is connected with the deterioration of geopolitical and economic conditions for the Kremlin...

"We did not want to leave". Ukrainian internally displaced persons tell their stories

We didn't want to leave. You see, the older the tree, the worse it takes root in a new place. We are like old trees. But we understand that life does not end with the loss of a home. Thank God our children are alive and our parents are alive...

New overseer of coal industry in CADLO – who is he?

The growing political and economic influence of the OPFL leader in the Donbas on both sides of the contact line. Will the sanctions imposed on February 3 by the National Security and Defense Council against T.Kozak? This will become clear closer to autumn...

"Russian Donbass" – falsification for "Abkhazization"

If today the Kremlin's theses about the "internal Ukrainian conflict" raised only a smile, since there is no national, religious, or any other ground for an internal conflict, now a "scientific" and factual basis is being created for this thesis – the population of the region is positioned as a kind of separate from the Ukrainian, "Russian people of Donbass"...

Tetiana Popova: "It is important to understand that the Russians will not stand still…"

So they started buying our channels. They have now bought up channels for Medvedchuk. But when the license was nevertheless taken away from 112 under the new government after the change of power (Poroshenko did not take away their illegally existing licenses for digital broadcasting), its ratings dropped...