Novorossiya

If Petro Poroshenko ever thought that destroying the freedom and independence of the Donabss republics would be easy, he ought to consider how Donbass and neighbouring areas have historically risen in independence, defying the same forces which seek to subdue them today.
Historically the core of the Donbass region, the city known contemporarily as Donetsk, was founded in 1869. The city represented the heart of modern Russian industry. If St. Petersburg was founded as Russia’s cultural showcase to the world, Donetsk was founded as the industrial equivalent.

This week on The Orthodox Nationalist, Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson deals with what he calls “the most significant event in world history since the fall of the USSR” — the rise of the republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Collectively called New Russia, this is the highly industrialized region of Ukraine that took up arms against the liberal coup of 2014.
https://ia801201.us.archive.org/31/items/TON101116/TON%20101116.mp3

Matthew Raphael Johnson
Johnstown, PA
The official flag of New Russia. Its similarity to the Confederate battle flag is coincidental.

Much like his caustic historic text on SS Galicia, Ukrainian author Oles Buzina was not very fond of Stepan Bandera—another one of official Kiev’s current ‘heroes’. This following prophetic text, written in 2011, also demonstrates why Buzina became a political dissident in his own home and possible reasons for his assassination in the spring of 2015. *    * … Continue reading Stories from Oles Buzina: Unheroic “bandera”

By SERGEI BARYSHNIKOV | CounterPunch | July 1, 2015 The following is the transcript of a talk by Sergei Baryshnikov, professor of political science and former rector of the National University of Donetsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The talk was delivered on April 16, 2015 to a group of foreign writers and journalists visiting […]

New Cold War | June 3, 2015 The following is an interview with Aleksander Vladimirovich Kolesnik, Deputy of the Parliament of Novorossiya. The interview was conducted by New Cold War.org on April 16, 2015 in the city of Donetsk. How did you become involved in the movement for Novorossiya? Aleksander Vladimirovich Kolesnik: I could not […]

RT | November 5, 2014 Two schoolchildren were killed and four injured as an artillery shell hit a stadium in front of a school in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, local self-defense forces said. “All the wounded were taken to the Donetsk regional trauma unit,” Natalya Yemchenko, a militia official with the Donetsk People’s […]

teleSUR | November 3, 2014 The incumbent prime ministers of the eastern Ukrainian People’s Republic of Donetsk and the Republic of Lugansk, Alexander Zakharchenko, and Igor Plotinitski, respectively, won the elections, according to preliminary results revealed by the Ruptly news agency. The preliminary results show that Zakharchenko received over 70 percent of the votes, while […]

RT | October 1, 2014 At least 11 people have been killed and 40 others have been injured in Donetsk, where a school and a bus stop came under fire – reportedly from Ukrainian Army positions. Two people are reported to have died at the school, and nine at the bus stop, according to Donetsk […]

RIA Novosti –  September 30, 2014 Ukraine’s southeastern regions could cooperate with Kiev in the spheres of security and economy, but a political union is out of the question, Andrei Purgin, Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said in an interview with Russian Channel One on Tuesday. “Federalism could not be […]