Tag Odessa

An incongruous claim III

Following parts I and II, I repeat parts of Putin’s “true history of Ukraine“: Perhaps you are not aware that in 1922, part of the land that you just named, land that historically always bore the name of Novorossiya… Why…

Disaster in Odessa

Howard Amos reporting live from Odessa, where pro-Russian crowds are storming the police headquarteres to free the pro-Russian militants (and, I fear, butcher the pro-Kyiv detainees). Via February 31st. Amos links to a blog post (in Russia) detailing the tragic…

DKSR+OSR=?

Victor Yanukovich is expected to speak in Rostov-on-Don today. It could be yet another asinine press conference but the alarmist in me feels otherwise. What if Yanukovich asks – “as the legitimate president, I hereby request” – Putin to “restore the…