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Pure corruption! Fines for CADLO residents for travel through Russia continue

The phrase "humanitarian reasons" is corrupt. It allows border guards to continue writing out protocols on administrative offense.

Industry in CADLO: The curse of Vneshtorgservis

Conditions impossible not just for a decent life – but for elementary survival – are being deliberately created. But, of course, turning CADLO into a completely depopulated desert is also impossible – the subject for the foreign policy bargaining on the future fate of the region is lost in this case. Therefore, there will be no complete cessation of subsidies from the Kremlin...

"Election" showed: "Russian World" perished in the Donbas!

This "election" became a vivid evidence of the desacralization of the Russian "passportization" from the point of view of the ideology of the Russian Spring. The entire value of the Russian passport was reduced for the residents of CADLO purely to receiving material benefits from the occupier, collecting, so to speak, compensation for the ruined lives…

The holiday continues! The level of COVID-19 diseases in Donetsk is growing despite the "mass vaccination"

On August 4, restrictions began to operate in the Rostov oblast, according to which entry to administrative institutions is prohibited without a vaccination certificate. The new rules also apply to the residents of the "LDNR"...

"We are drowning and, probably, will soon touch the bottom. And nothing can save us"

Plain and simple: the more coal a mine produces, the lower the cost per ton, the more it earns. In the absence of investment in development, production will continue to fall, while debts - and the penalties charged on them - will rise. This is a common problem for Ukrainian mines...

Everything for tourists: how Crimea is experiencing a new "wave" of coronavirus

Considering that Russia cannot get such a vaccine for all the money in the world, and there is no way to Europe for us, the only opportunity is mainland Ukraine. But most Crimeans are afraid to even plan a trip to Ukraine after so many years of propaganda...

Akhmetov expands his power…

It is not just about market monopolization. That is, the ability to dictate the prices to suppliers and buyers – taking advantage of the fact that there is no other buyer/seller able to offer more favorable conditions. Everything is much more serious: the growth of the economic power of R.Akhmetov's business empire accordingly increases his influence on Ukrainian politics...

Tool-2… Forecast of the development of situation in the Donbas

This suggests that Moscow reserves the opportunity for itself to carry out new aggressive actions in the South-East of Ukraine by the hands of the armed forces of CADLO. Moreover, such aggression is becoming a necessary tool for the Kremlin to coerce Kyiv into direct negotiations with its puppets in Donetsk and Luhansk…

A tool… How Russia uses Donbas against Ukraine and the West

There is no need to change the text of the Minsk agreements, or to accept any new agreements (Russia will not agree to this to the detriment of itself), - it is enough just to bring the Minsk process into line with the existing Minsk texts. This alone will lead to the emergence in the negotiations of the second party of the conflict - Russia...

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...