Tag: Ukraine
Yesterday, Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky was detained in Sloviansk. For weeks, he has been reporting on masked gunmen seizing police stations and government buildings all over the eastern Ukraine. “Nobody abducted him, nobody is holding him hostage, he’s with us now in at the SBU, preparing material and working,” the “People’s Mayor” of Sloviansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev […]
Alternatively euphemized in the press as “separatists,” “activists,” “armed men,” “militants,” and “commandos,” Russian paramilitary forces with heavy assault rifles and armor bearing no insignia stormed municipal buildings in Eastern Ukraine this weekend. At least one Ukrainian officer was killed on Sunday and several were injured, according to the Times. This morning, paramilitaries defied the […]
Just two years ago, as Valeria Lukyanova rose to viral notoriety, the combination of her extreme physical appearance “justified” by New Age-ish rambling seemed almost quirky. Tabloids turned her into a walking world-wide trend piece with an internet army of copycats and fans and a trailer of hate blogs. V Magazine flew the “controversial” and “extraordinary” micro-waisted, giant-breasted, blank-faced […]
Have no fear, Crimea! Jared Leto and his shitty band have arrived to Kiev for a concert. There he is — the actor who shouted out “the dreamers” in “the” Ukraine during his Oscar acceptance speech (which was censored by the Russian state-controlled television) — visiting what is left of the protest camps of Maidan and looking […]
Russia’s state-run Channel One cancelled its planned live broadcast of the Oscars last Sunday, to make room for “live coverage” of “the situation in Ukraine,” aka Russia’s Crimean invasion with a signature Kremlin media spin. When the 86th Academy Awards aired in Russia a day later, Jared Leto’s Best Supporting Actor Award acceptance speech was edited out, Rain TV reports. “To […]
Russia’s surprise invasion of Ukraine has pundits on the right positively giddy, as they point to statements made during the elections in 2008 and 2012 by then-candidates Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney. But long before someone presumably ghostwrote that foreign policy position for Palin or Romney walked back his stance, it was liberal Cosmo Kramer […]
The most hated statue in Sofia, Bulgaria has been painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in solidarity with the revolution and the deadly protests in the former Soviet Republic. It is, essentially, a gigantic bronze relief to remind the Bulgarian people about an invading Soviet forces that crushed and “liberated” the country from its […]
This is a livefeed of Ukrainian riot police storming Kiev’s main anti-government camp. What you’re listening to are grenades, fireworks, Molotov cocktails, gunfire and the chants of anti-President Yanukovich activists over the continuous explosions. Espreso TV Livefeed Earlier today, the city saw its most violent clashes since the protest began 12 weeks ago, since the citizens set up giant make-shift […]
After weeks of civil unrest in Kiev, the fiery combat in the occupied streets and the storming of police stations and government buildings, the protestors seem to be winning. The prime minister of Ukraine resigned today. The government has repealed most of the tyrannical new laws on freedom of speech and assembly. The heavily criticized President Yanukovych […]
The Ustream channel from Maidan in Kiev has been streaming 24-hours-a-day for some time now. After the dramatic battles between protesters and police over the last few days, there was a very tentative truce while possible peace talks were taking place, but a possible resolution is unclear so far. This is the scene in Independence Square right now: […]
