Concert By Stuffy Soviet Crooner Signals East Ukraine’s New Normal
Iosif Kobzon defied a Ukrainian travel ban to sing for a rapturous, elderly crowd in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
Iosif Kobzon defied a Ukrainian travel ban to sing for a rapturous, elderly crowd in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.
President Petro Poroshenko gets an overwhelming mandate for his reform plan and bid to end the war with pro-Russian separatists — but faces significant obstacles in implementing them.
Vladimir Putin failed to answer a question about reports by BuzzFeed News and Financial Times reporters who met Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s defense ministry responded by calling the FT reporter a “naive girl.”
Russian soldiers are still in Luhansk, Buzzfeed News reports, but aren’t doing much to make the rebel state a reality.
“Apparently we got the Kremlin really pissed,” an aide to the fired governor told BuzzFeed News.
Was schenkst Du dem Mann, der alles hat? “Ausgehend von der Statur unseres Präsidenten, ist er bei bester Gesundheit und plant, noch lange am Ruder zu stehen.”
What do you get the man who controls everything? “Judging by our president’s build, he’s in great health and plans to captain the ship for a long time.”
White nationalists from the U.S. and Europe thought they would find an easy home in Hungary, with its increasingly right-wing government. They were wrong. BuzzFeed News’ Max Seddon reports from Budapest.
“Our conference has been under attack by the forces of liberal tolerance,” organizer Richard Spencer told BuzzFeed News.
“Etiquette is the weapon of an experienced commander of the house and the serving staff are her army.”
According to one count, 168 Lenin statues have been toppled since the start of Ukraine’s protests. BuzzFeed News’ Max Seddon reports from Kiev.
Deported once under Stalin, Crimea’s Tatars face a similar fate under Vladimir Putin. Leonid Ragozin reports from Crimea, and BuzzFeed News’ Max Seddon reports from Kiev.
“Incorrectly peeling carrots.”
“The war that these young men are fighting today is not only Ukraine’s war,” Petro Poroshenko told Congress. “It is Europe’s, and it is America’s war too.”
Thugs in the city of Astrakhan beat up a BBC cameraman and smashed his camera before fleeing. After they reported the incident to police, the crew found the footage had been destroyed.
Gulnara Karimova has hired a spokesman with a London-based PR firm who sent the photos to journalists.
“No nation has ever paid such a high price to be Europeans,” Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
Some in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania fear Moscow will exploit the countries’ Russian-speaking minority.
Ksenia Batanova, a producer with Dozhd, Russia’s only independent television news channel, is recovering after unknown assailants fractured her skull. The channel has devoted significant resources to covering Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict and struggled against government pressure.
Nearly every Kremlin-owned company and major Kremlin-linked company is now on the U.S. sanctions list.