Oleg Rudenko's Blog

Putin’s Russia continues insistently test the world. Itconstantly checks the boundaries of what is acceptable. If there is no proper reaction on its provocation, then it goes further. If, it suddenly, meets with resistance – it starts retreating. For instance, the world reaction on Russian aggression in Azov sea is quite weak, that’s why Putin’s Russia is self-confident in this issue. It constantly enjoys the fact that the West accustomed to live in comfort became lazy and clumsy. In addition, the Western world has lost its ability to see threat from afar and measure itadequately. Europe begin to realize slowly that Kremlin is in condition of war not just with Ukraine, but also with collective West. The situation is aggravated the fact that the “Kremlin elite”improperly believes that its state can exist merely in the form of Soviet Union. “Kremlin elite”complacent herself saying that the United States, refused the role of the world gendarme, but does not notice that United St

The aggressive actions of Putin’s Russia in the Kerch Strait, which happened on Sunday, November 25, 2018 are already the fact on open aggression against sovereign Ukraine. Now all kind of statements by false Kremlin senior officials, such like “they were not there”, won’t get by, because Russian aggression is a reality and there are six wounded Ukrainian sailors, two of them badly wounded. The aggressor seized two Ukrainian gunboats and one tugboat, which were sent to our ports on the Sea of ​​Azov, which is the common sea for Russia and Ukraine, according to a bilateral agreement. But the Kremlin rogues ignore international or bilateral treaties as usual. They do not give a damn about any agreements when they are interested to unleash aggression against one of their neighbors. Obviously the Kremlin prepared to this aggression and was provoking it in every possible way. The aggression is unleashed by the Kremlin on the very days when preparations are underway in Kiev for the Uni

The enemies of Ukraine, both abroad and within the country, began to react painfully to the facts of an increasing the budget of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and the Ministry of Information Policy for 2019. Immediately started rampant accusations of Ukraine strengthening its propaganda, as if any state should not have the right to its constructive propaganda, to its word of truth. Critics of all stripes got used to the fact that Ukraine still had very weak propaganda, which enabled them to rule their own portion of lie in the sovereign Ukrainian informational space. Nevertheless, Ukraine awakened by the Kremlin's hybrid aggression, confidently gets up from its knees, shaking off all the parasites. The enemies of Ukraine do not like the efficiently working Institute of National Memory, which they have been trying precisely for centuries, if not to erase at all, then to deform for their own ideological schemes, using their false and untruthful history. Now when the

Establishment of the Europe’s east border will commemorate by itself the decision of geostrategic problem of a last few centuries. Exactly this way is one of the possibilities of the 21 st century for Europe to strengthen its security. Within this framework Ukraine, once again, for the last four centuries is taking the central place in European, as external, so and domestic policy. Not establishing, due to various reasons, eastern border across Don River between Europe and Eurasia in 17 th century by our ancestries Kazaks, nowadays it hurts us hiccups, compel to stand against regular attempts of Kremlin to push its west border as closer to Europe, as it possible, be meant, at the expense of Ukraine. Present eastern front, with the so-called DPR and LPR, crosses the same places, where for many centuries our ancestries hold the line from nomad raids. We have to notice that they were at war on their terrain, protecting it from nomads from the East. Nowadays their great-grandsons t

Avail of that in times of Kuchma based on agreement between Russia and Ukraine the Azov Sea was defined as landlocked sea, where two countries (Ukraine and Russia) can lead down near the brinks of each other, Putin’s Russia, as a country aggressor, tries to capture the whole marine environment, closed Ukraine tightly in its seaports Mariupol and Berdyansk, preventing the passage to Ukrainian ports for international trader ships. For such aggressive kremlin strategy promote the fact of illegal annexation by Russia of Ukrainian Crimea. The opposition between Ukraine and Russia on Azov will signalize by itself the whole page in history of two countries, where Russia, once again, acts as boundless aggressor, who spits on all international agreements. Kremlin’s target on Azov – is to deprive Ukrainian seaports the possibility of trade with external world, due to what for defending Ukraine will be brought a huge economic damage for billions of dollars.   More importantly, that Kremli

As it happened in the history of Russia, its greatness comes from its dictators, not from its people. Can Russia be mighty without Kremlin dictators? The current (and the last as everyone hopes) dictator began to lose his popularity as soon as he tried to tread on people’s toes when he decided to provide pension reform. The rate of credibility immediately decreased from 60% to 48%, thus about 60% of Russians said they trusted Putin when he just started his third term and there were a lot of protests against his return to power. It was unexpected that the person, who was the leader, almost the emperor, for the main part of population only a short time ago, lost his rating so quickly. The greatness of any country is achieved not so much by the individuals in power as by its hardworking people and highly erudite elite. Does anyone need a leader, who can’t provide satisfied and worthy life in a democracy for his people, using rich and innumerable natural resources? What greatness