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Ten charged over downing of airliner
Iran says it has charged 10 officials over the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) jet that was shot down last year, killing all 176 people on board. Gholam Abbas Torki, the former military prosecutor for Tehran Province, said on April 6 that the 10 have been “brought to responsibility” and will face trial to determine “the necessary conclusions” over the incident in January 2020, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.

Analysis

Demographic transformation of Crimea: forced migration as part of Russia’s ‘hybrid’ strategy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 201 came into effect on March 20, 2021.
The executive edict adds Crimea and Sevastopol to “the list of Russia’s border territories where foreign citizens, stateless persons and foreign legal entities cannot own land.” As such, non-Russians, including Ukrainian citizens who still reside in occupied Crimea but who refused to obtain a Russian passport, can now be stripped of their property.

Analysis

Franco-German proposals in the Normandy Forum: A letdown to Ukraine

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The Kremlin’s representative to negotiations over Russia’s war in Ukraine’s east, Dmitry Kozak, is undoubtedly the source of the outpouring of secret documents to the Russian daily Kommersant (March 24), revealing the negotiating positions of the parties to the Normandy process (Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine).

For the record

Efforts to rescind Duranty’s Pulitzer take on new momentum

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Committee on Ukrainian Holodomor-Genocide Awareness (herein referred to as U.S. Holodomor Committee) has begun a national campaign to ask the Pulitzer Prize Board to reconsider their 2003 statement and finally admit that they made a mistake and negate the Pulitzer Prize awarded to Walter Duranty.

Editorials

Russian troops amassing near eastern Ukraine

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The editorial in last week’s issue of The Ukrainian Weekly focused on the rising level of violence occurring in Donbas. We noted that, according to a March 20 report by Radio Svoboda, it appeared that the number of “separatist” forces near the occupied towns of Horlivka and Mospino, both in the Donetsk region, had increased recently.

Turning the pages back...

April 10, 2001

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Thirty years ago, on April 10, 2001, thousands of participants demonstrated for the dismissal of President Leonid Kuchma and a “power system change” in Ukraine. The event was organized by the Forum for National Salvation, under the slogan “For Ukraine Without Kuchma and Oligarchs.”