News, information and analysis:
RT.com (Russia Today) (English)
Sputnik News English-language Russian news agency
Fort Russ ‘Read what Russians are reading.’ English language translations and comment of important news stories from Russia and Ukraine. By Kristina Rus Kharlova in Canada and her international team.
Donetsk International News Agency (DONi)
TASS Russian News Agency (English)
Slavyangrad.org Ongoing reports on the political situation in eastern Ukraine
Strategic Culture Foundation Strategic Culture Foundation provides a platform for exclusive analysis, research and policy comment on Eurasian and global affairs.
Cyberkut Internet technology experts publishing classified information obtained from Ukrainian state and government sources.
Ukrainian Crisis Updates “Unfiltered news from ordinary people in Ukraine”
Consortium News Web journal published by U.S. journalist Robert Parry and colleagues, examining U.S. foreign policy and U.S. mainstream news outlets, with much focus on Ukraine.
Oriental Review ‘Oriental Review is an independent, Moscow-based Internet journal focusing on current political issues in Eurasia and beyond. The initiative is launched in February 2010 by a group of freelance bloggers and political analysts concerned with the aggravating security situation in the world…’
Russia In Global Affairs Published by the Foreign Policy Research Foundation, Moscow
Deutsche Welle Germany’s international broadcaster (see ‘World’ section of website)
Spiegel Online International Website of German mainstream weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel
EurasiaNet “EurasiaNet.org provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, and Southwest Asia. ”
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Daily reports by the pro-Ukraine government Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine of the Organisation for Cooperation and Security in Europe
Johnson’s Russia List Longstanding e-mail listserve and website of mainstream information of Russia and Ukraine, biased towards Russia bashing [see note 1 below]
Blogs and author websites:
Writers published on New Cold War.org The category ‘Articles by author’ on the front page of ‘The New Cold War: Ukraine and beyond’ lists contributors to the website. It also lists writers whose articles are reposted to the site; some of those writers are listed here:
Ivan Katchanovski Facebook page of researcher in Ottawa writing news updates as well as in-depth research papers.
Alexander Mercouris Facebook page of the London-based correspondent for Russia Insider.
Dances With Bears Economic and political analysis by Moscow-based writer John Helmer.
Dmitry Kovalevich Facebook page providing frequent reports from Ukrainian media translated into English.
Red Star Over Donbass By Greg Butterfield, writer for Workers World and translator from Russian and Ukrainian. ‘This is a new blog I created to focus on my writings, translations and other long-form items in English about Donbass and Ukraine.’
Russia: Other points of view By Patrick Armstrong, writer for Russia Insider and former counselor at the Canadian embassy in Moscow. Now resident in Canada. His blog includes a biweekly political update of Russia.
Nicolai Petro Professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island.
Defending History An academic website founded in September 2009 and dedicated to preserving and defending the history and contemporary presence of the Jewish people of eastern Europe. Defending History ” works to support the Lithuanian Jewish community and other remnant Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and to combat racism, homophobia and the New Far Right”.
Graham Phillips UK video journalist Graham Phillips and his colleague Patrick Lancaster are providing riveting video reporting from eastern Ukraine on YouTube and via their Facebook pages.
In German: The Propaganda Show German language blog which examines the German media’s propaganda and disinformation over Ukraine.
In Dutch: Nova Gazeta ‘Dedicated to describing geopolitics from non-Western perspectives, helping improve mutual understanding between Russia and the West, and exposing propaganda in Dutch media.’ Edited by Max van der Werff.
OffGuardian Website restored in April 15, 2015 after internal dispute and temporary shutdown. “Tired of being censored by our beloved, once-upon-a-time left-of-centre newspaper, The Guardian, in February 2015 we decided to create our own platform for airing our unacceptable opinions.”
The Kremlin Stooge “My name is Mark Chapman, I am a born-and-bred Canadian. My positive interest in Russia springs from my relationship with Russians I like and admire, met mostly through my Russian wife.”
Solidarity and antiwar:
UK: Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist Resistance in Ukraine Facebook page of the campaign of the same name in Britain. Lots of valuable reports there from media and left sources in Ukraine.
Liva.com Ukrainian left wing website ‘Liva’ (The Left) with an English language page of translated articles.
Stop NATO A longstanding website and e-mail listserve edited by Rick Rozoff in the United States.
Documents and analysis
(See the ‘Documents’ category on the website main home page.)
New and analysis from Turkey (English)
Al-Monitor ‘Turkey Pulse’ ‘Turkey Pulse’ is the section devoted to Turkey of Al-Monitor, consisting of original articles translated to English. Al-Monitor covers the entire Middle East on its website.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
Facebook page of UK citizen Chris Stephenson In English and Turkish
Today’s Zaman (weblink removed after this newspaper, Turkey’s largest, was taken over by the Turkish police and government on March 4, 2016)
Notes:
[1] From a Dec 27, 2015 article by Gilbert Doctorow: “Johnson’s Russia List (www.russialist.org) is an internet digest published roughly six days a week year round and focused on Russia, now with a separate section on Ukraine. The JRL is a project domiciled at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and operated by Richard Johnson who founded it something like 20 years ago. Its banner tells us that it receives partial funding from the George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, partly from the Carnegie Corporation, New York, neither of which may be considered neutral in matters concerning Russia, quite the contrary. But further funding comes from the voluntary contributions of subscribers, of whom there are perhaps 6000, mostly American academics and university centers having an interest in Russian affairs. Appearing in JRL is an ambition of a great many wannabe experts and authorities in the field, mostly but not exclusively political scientists and journalists.”