The Party of Regions is a banned pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that became the largest party in Ukraine between 2006 and 2014.
Kirill or Cyril is a Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009.
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
JSC Pharmstandard is a Russian multinational pharmaceutical company. It is headquartered in Dolgoprudny, Moscow Oblast.
Said Belmokhtar is a Ukrainian former footballer who played as a forward.
Alexander Vladimirovich Buzgalin was a Russian Marxist. He was a professor at the Moscow State University and the coordinator of the Social Movement "Alternatives". He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Russian Social Forums.
Serhiy Leshchenko is a Ukrainian ex-journalist, politician and public figure, Member of Parliament. From 2002 until 2014 Leshchenko was working as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief and as a special correspondent for Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper.
Anatoly Anatoliiovych Shariy is a Ukrainian journalist and videoblogger.
Yuriy Ivanovich Semenov was a Soviet and Russian historian, philosopher, ethnologist, anthropologist, expert on the history of philosophy, history of primitive society, and the theory of knowledge. He was also the original creator of the globally-formation (relay-stadial) concept of world history and is a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Historical Sciences (1963), and Professor. He was Distinguished Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
The Joint Declaration of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, also known as the Havana Declaration, was issued following the first meeting in February 2016 between Pope Francis, who, as the Bishop of Rome, is the pontiff of the Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches. This was the first time leaders of the Catholic Church and the Moscow Patriarchate had met. While the meeting was also seen as a symbolic moment in the history of relations between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches as a community, which had split in the Great Schism of 1054, centuries before the Moscow Patriarchate was constituted, it was not expected to lead to any immediate rapprochement between them.
Sergey Vladimirovich Surovikin is a Russian army general who serves as head of the Coordinating Committee for Air Defence under the Council of Defence Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since September 2023.
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and the incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko. According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), Zelenskyy won the second round with 75% of the vote. The elections were recognized as free and fair by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Oleksii Petrovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine and is the son of former president Petro Poroshenko.
The Wagner Group, officially known as PMC Wagner, is a Russian state-funded private military company (PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir Putin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.
Serhiy Volodymyrovych Pashynskyi is Ukrainian politician and statesman. He has been a people's deputy of Ukraine of four convocations and is the chairman of the Committee on National Security and Defense Council.
Gennady Valeryevich Zhidko was a colonel general of the Russian Armed Forces. He was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017 for his service as chief of staff of Russian forces deployed to Syria. Following this assignment, Zhidko commanded the Eastern Military District and headed the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.
"Strength is in truth" is a Russian catchphrase that has been widespread since the beginning of the 21st century. It is derived from the phrase of the character Danila Bagrov in the film Brother 2, released in 2000.
Dmitry Anatolyevich Steshin is a Russian journalist and editor who works for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper and for his own Telegram channel.
Alexander Igorevich Kots is a Russian journalist, editor and propagandist. He reports mostly for the tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and on his own channel on Telegram.
Svitlana Kryukova is a Ukrainian journalist and author. She is the first deputy editor-in-chief of the Strana.ua.
