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Kozak leader, Petro Doroshenko

In the fall of 1667 Doroshenko, with Ottoman support, defeated the Polish forces in Podolia, and expelled them from the Right-Bank. With the Right-Bank seemingly secured, Doroshenko and his men crossed into Left-bank Ukraine and supported an uprising against Ivan Briukhovetsky. Following Briukhovetsky’s execution the Left-bank regiments proclaimed Doroshenko the hetman of all Ukraine on June 9, 1668. As Doroshenko was reaching his zenith of power after successfully reuniting Ukraine, his numerous enemies united against him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Doroshenko

VICE Footage

Slaviansk Residents Flee through Ukrainian Military Checkpoint:

Donetsk Airport Battle:

Donbass Battalion Ambush Aftermath / Voting Preparations / Chechen Vostok Battalion Arrival / Protest at Akhmetov’s:

Law about E-commerce in Ukraine

A general description is in the article … and if you need the items, then open the law. To Bitcoin until it inapplicable, but finally brings in the legal field of Ukraine quite ordinary things already – “e-commerce, electronic goods, electronic commerce, online store, and most importantly – electronic transactions”

Discussion: http://ain.ua/2014/06/03/519256

The Law itself: http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=47409

Ukraine’s MFA is demanding that Russia arrange a meeting with renowned film director Oleh Sentsov, who was detained in Crimea and transported to a prison in Moscow on charges of terrorism.

Ukraine’s MFA is demanding that Russia arrange a meeting with renowned film director Oleh Sentsov, who was detained in Crimea and transported to a prison in Moscow on charges of terrorism.

http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/06/04/ukraine-demands-meeting-with-film-director-detained-in-russia/#more-10965

Relatives of Lviv soldiers protests mobilization, insufficient training

Yavoriv (Lviv region) relatives of mobilized blocked the gate not allowing to send soldiers to Donbas. Those guys are not volunteers – they are forced by law. They complain on lack of equipment and training. Thay don’t have a wish to fight. Want to go home to their families.

http://zaxid.net/news/showNews.do?nas_ne_navchili_strilyati&objectId=1310232

Need to take a break *sticky post*

I’m still blogging (scroll down to see the latest), but I need to take a break from daily updates to work on other projects. I plan to post fewer, but more in-depth / interesting stories, as well as personal news for my friends and family who tune in to this blog.

For your daily Ukraine updates, please check out these twitter feeds:

Roman Skaskiw – https://twitter.com/Roman_Skaskiw
Ukrainian Updates – https://twitter.com/Ukroblogger
Ukraine Reporter – https://twitter.com/StateOfUkraine
EuroMaidan PR – https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR

Also,

Kyiv Post – http://www.kyivpost.com/
StopFake.org (exposing fake Russian news & propaganda) – http://www.stopfake.org/en/news/
Maidan Translations (good military summaries) – (http://maidantranslations.com/

Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America

The documents show instructions provided to the commenters that detail the workload expected of them. On an average working day, the Russians are to post on news articles 50 times. Each blogger is to maintain six Facebook accounts publishing at least three posts a day and discussing the news in groups at least twice a day. By the end of the first month, they are expected to have won 500 subscribers and get at least five posts on each item a day. On Twitter, the bloggers are expected to manage 10 accounts with up to 2,000 followers and tweet 50 times a day.

They are to post messages along themes called “American Dream” and “I Love Russia.” The archetypes for the accounts are called Handkerchief, Gay Turtle, The Ghost of Marius the Giraffe, Left Breast, Black Breast, and Ass, for reasons that are not immediately clear.

According to the documents, which are attached to several hundred emails sent to the project’s leader, Igor Osadchy, the effort was launched in April and is led by a firm called the Internet Research Agency. It’s based in a Saint Petersburg suburb, and the documents say it employs hundreds of people across Russia who promote Putin in comments on Russian blogs.

Osadchy told BuzzFeed he had never worked for the Internet Research Agency and that the extensive documents — including apparent budgeting for his $35,000 salary — were an “unsuccessful provocation.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/documents-show-how-russias-troll-army-hit-america