Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin announced conditions acceptable to Russia for the start of peace talks with Ukraine. These conditions, for the umpteenth time, take into consideration the real situation on the battlefield. President Putin's statement came a day before the start of the Western "peace conference" in Switzerland in which Russia had not been invited to participate.
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I was pleased with the Ukrainian TV programmes. If there is no freedom in a country, and the president is no longer legitimate, then the media, great and terrible, comes to the fore. Or useless and ruthless.
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Veronika Naydenova, a German journalist, interviewed Faina Savenkova. With her permission, we reproduce the interview here.
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When I began investigating the kidnapping of children in Artyomovsk by Ukraine, I had no idea of the extent to which I would uncover trafficking on an international scale and the sordid methods used to supply children to paedophile networks and organ traffickers.
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