Ukraine: non-military aspects (2016 onwards)

[mirhond]

Police vs. "amber mafia" in W. Ukraine, video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlU72Snn4Zg

illegal amber digging brings hefty profits to local "businessmen" and corrupted officials, National Guard to the rescue.
http://gordonua.com/news/society/zam...ya-127156.html



the same region, one year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9TDVM9Tk2o

[mirhond]

Newest additions to Ukrainian "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" are here:

comin.kmu.gov.ua/document/135398/ban.xls

reminder: Ukraine banned "anti-Ukrainian literature" (whatever it means) and effectively halted allmost all books export from Russia.

Some particular positions caught my attention

2. Сталинград Энтони Бивор 2016 - Anthony Beevor "Stalingrad" - probably because Beevor's book contains this passage:
"Ukrainian nationalists were tasked with shooting the children" in order to "spare the feelings of SS Sonderkommando"

pretty anti-Ukrainian statement, no doubt, but another positions, like this:

12. 700 новых устных тем по английскому языку. Клім Я.О. - "700 new verbal topics in English"

or this:

13. Химия. M. Константиновский - "Chemistry"

don't look dangerously anti-Ukrainian.
What reservations Ukrainian [strikethrough]Ministry of Truth[/strikethrough] Commitee for TV and Radio holds against English and Chemistry - is beyond me.

[davidbfpo]

An academic article on the situation, the emphasis is not on the military aspects - hence being in this smaller thread. Here is a taster passage:

The dynamics playing out in Ukraine are the result of three interconnected factors: Western overconfidence since the end of the Cold War, Russia’s increasing determination to reassert itself as a global superpower, and the inability and unwillingness of countries like Ukraine to reform and strengthen their fragile institutions, which might help insulate them from external interference.

Link:https://theconversation.com/ukraine-...form=hootsuite

There is a thread on the war (last updated December 2017):http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...=25367&page=13