Once many in the West believed that this [russian-Ukrainian] war would end in three days, three weeks, three months in Ukraine’s total disintegration – quick, and however cynical it may sound, “clean”. Now, it seems, many start to believe that it will end in Ukraine’s surrender on different terms. No Continue Reading
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Liar Liar. Leonid Bershidsky keeps writing about Ukraine in his opinion pieces for Bloomberg
To many Americans, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is merely a character in the U.S. impeachment drama, an awkward English speaker from a remote, corrupt country that would be eaten up by Russia if not for U.S. assistance, writes Russian journalist[?] Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg. His opinion piece starts with the Continue Reading
Ukraine Peace Talks Get Help From Putin. Crazy, right?
Russia is letting Zelensky lay out “red lines” to convince voters he can compromise without capitulating, writes Leonid Bershidsky for Bloomberg from Moscow. No, he is not actually living in Moscow right now, he was just born there, ok born and educated, ok born and educated and started his career. Continue Reading
Thousands march in Kyiv, Guardian reports whatever, AP spreads Russian propaganda
“Thousands march in Kyiv to oppose east Ukraine peace plan,” this could have been the title of the article in the Guardian about the protest in Ukraine’s capital to oppose capitulation to Putin’s wish-list and it still would be inaccurate. But it wasn’t, at least not at first, just enough Continue Reading
Kolomoisky and the Holding Company: Combination of the Two
The idea that the Ukrainian runaway oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky, is planning to regain control of the nationalized PrivatBank was in the air for some time now. But until the presidential race for the upcoming elections in Ukraine, it had little substance to it. Today, there are at least three candidates Continue Reading
10 reasons why chief editor of Kyiv Post is not after objectivity
In his latest op-ed piece “Reasons why Poroshenko will win & reasons why he will lose” the chief editor of the Kyiv Post Brian Bonner is not after objectivity one bit. Why? See for yourself. “For months now, my conversation-starting question with all Ukrainians I meet is: Who will be Continue Reading
Breaking Bad. The Biggest Tax Offenders in America
Top 500 U.S. companies hold about 2.1 trillion dollars in the low-tax jurisdiction to avoid paying taxes at home. While the entire 2015 United States federal budget is only $3.8 trillion. The amount of money these companies would have to pay if they had entrusted their money to the U.S. Continue Reading
No Sympathy for the Devil
This piece is not about Putin, at least not the one you are thinking of. There was a lot of rumbling in the West about who he is. But we don’t need to understand him if we understand the process. The process of tyranny that is, which is thought of Continue Reading
Paper Overlords
You can argue all you want, the world is ruled by money. It rules everything, every aspect of human life, accompanying almost every step of a modern man. We spend too much time thinking about the money, and we like it too. We think how to get it, how to Continue Reading