Yanukovych loot fuels Moscow real estate market
During the flight of former president Viktor Yanukovych and his circle to Russia, the prices of luxury real estate in Moscow suddenly spiked higher.
Ukraine banks ask Russia to compensate for Crimea losses
Two of Ukraine's largest banks have asked Moscow to compensate them for losses resulting from Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine last year.
Russian Analyst: Moscow can’t afford having Ukraine war become a frozen conflict
Moscow can’t afford having its war in Donbas become a frozen conflict with an unrecognized state...
Hungary openly helping Putin destabilize Ukraine
While “Transcarpathia is not the Donbas,” it is a place where Moscow with Budapest’s help hopes to destabilize the situation...
Former Russian deputy PM shot and killed in Moscow
Boris Nemtsov, opposition leader and a former deputy prime minister of Russia, has been shot and killed in the center of Moscow. Nemtsov was gunned down within several yards from the Kremlin.
Moscow analyst: ‘West would give Putin Ukraine if that was all he wanted’
A prominent Moscow analyst says that “the West would surrender Ukraine to Putin if Putin’s demands were limited to only Ukraine,” but the West understands that Putin wants far more...
New Ukraine peace initiative: Merkel, Hollande to travel to Kyiv, Moscow
As violence escalates in Ukraine, German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande have said they will travel to Kyiv and then Moscow to present a new initiative for peace in Ukraine.