An essential listen for those interested in Ukraine’s well being. Confirmation here that Manafort is responsible almost as much as putler for the death and misery inflicted upon Ukraine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csyth7

This is their final broadcast:-

BBC A Ukrainian Boeing-737 with 180 people onboard has crashed in Iran, according to local media. The aircraft belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed just after take-off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, said the Fars state news agency. Preliminary reports suggest that the plane was en route to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. It is unclear whether the

THE NATIONAL INTEREST This is a lengthy article. Here are a couple of extracts: Today, Moscow has a primarily negative strategy with regards to Ukraine: make Ukraine unpalatable for EU/NATO membership; prevent a consolidation of the Ukrainian political system; and reroute Russia’s geo-economic connections. The goal is to recreate a failing state and throw responsibility for its financial upkeep onto

Underneath the video is a comment : it is savagely amusing. Video comes from Dennis Prager.

Brian Whitmore: CEPA

Is Putin winning the war in Ukraine? Jack Clover The Ukraine Affair’ involving Donald Trump was front-page news across the world this month – but not in Ukraine itself. There were flutterings of embarrassment and face-palms on social media as the transcript of the Zelensky-Trump call emerged, but they very soon petered out. Believe it or not, on 1 October

From wiki: In his book, Darkness at Dawn, David Satter charged that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was responsible for the bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999 that claimed nearly 300 lives and provided the justification for a second Chechen War. He argued that this was part of a conspiracy to bring Putin to power as Boris Yeltsin

THU, SEP 19, 2019 Atlantic Council UkraineAlert by Diane Francis Disturbing reading. Here is the link to the article:- How to lose friends and allies

The biggest beneficiary of the Ukraine scandal is, sure enough, the Kremlin. By MOLLY K. MCKEW 10/06/2019 06:50 AM EDT Molly K. McKew is a writer and lecturer on Russian influence and information warfare. She advised the Georgian president and national security council from 2009 to 2013 and former Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat in 2014 and 2015. POLITICO This

Opinion: Washington should start paying attention to Georgia, which may be at a crossroads Aaron Kliegman – SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 12:30 PM Tbilisi, Georgia — With Russia bombing hospitals in Syria and supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, it is easy to forget that this current wave of Russian aggression actually began here, in the Republic of Georgia, in 2008. One

MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report)—Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he was “saddened and hurt” that Donald J. Trump had asked a different foreign country to meddle in a U.S. election. “I thought when it came to election meddling that Donald and I were exclusive,” an emotional Putler told reporters. “This feels like a betrayal.” Putin said that when

The Marxist rabble that is the modern Labour Party has remained staunchly loyal to Russia, despite the fact that it has been fascist for the past 20 years.