3864 «There was no order to resort to arms» Pavel Kanygin, a special correspondent of the Novaya Gazeta, interviewed Russian captives Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeniy Yerofeev. We publish the video of this talk in full. Still, one should remember: the people who told our correspondent their version of events are captured and their actions and their statements background may be motivated exactly by this. Anyway, whoever these people were: regular soldiers, volunteers, or employees of "the Lugansk People’s Republic police" - they are the Russian citizens who need help - both legal and human. Pavel Kanygin
7511 It was Buk-M1 The editorial office of The Novaya Gazeta received the strictly confidential document titled The Results of Peer Review of Investigation into Boeing-777 (flight MH17) Air Crash 17.17.2014 in the South-East of Ukraine. As far as we know, this work of engineers from the Russian Military Industrial Sector (MIS) (including the R&D; company that designs and manufactures the Buk missiles) should be sent to the Dutch specialists involved into the investigation of this tragedy. The journalists are not experts in the area of aviation, ballistics and rocket engineering, so we cannot and do not consider ourselves to be entitled to appraise this investigation. Owing to public prominence, we felt it necessary to publish this document uncensored and offer the expert communities, both in Russia and abroad, to study the arguments, facts and conclusions adduced.
2956 «We are not animals. Don’t fence us off with barbed wire!» This article was published a year ago, on May 25, 2014. Journalist Andrei Mironov and photojournalist Andy Rocchelli were covering the conflict in Slavyansk, where the attacks began. On the same day, Andrei Mironov and Andy Rocchelli died in a mortar attack near Slavyansk. One year ago. We remember.
5971 Russia’s Patriots and Its Enemies …Unfortunately, it seems that the President personally will determine the fortune of Boris Nemtsov’s murder investigation rather than the Investigation Committee and Federal Security Service. Because this decision will not only determine the configuration of the accused on the dock, but also the political configuration of the country appeared to be on the brink of war between the “regime backbones”. There must be determined who is a patriot and who is not. And it seems we will find out soon what is a way out of this dead end where the President has been brought by force so cynically Investigative section
7072 “We were fully aware of what we brought ourselves to and what could happen” "We were told that we were going to have maneuvers, but we knew where we went. I was morally and mentally ready to go to Ukraine. We painted over the tanks in Ulan-Ude. Just while they were in the train set. We painted over the plates. Some tanks were marked with the guard sign — we painted them over, too. We took off the arm patches and chevrons here, when we arrived at the training range. Take off everything… for conspiracy reasons. We left our civilian passports at the military base, and our military service cards... Elena Kostyuchenko