Ukraine Crisis | Do Ukrainians Want War? - Local Deputy

Appeal by Viktoria Shilova, a politician form the Donbass region:

Appeal for assistance - information sources from Russia and the Ukraine needed!

This morning a number of links to Russian news channels are not working.  Some URLs simply do not resolve.  Though this might be a local problem or a technical glitch, I think that as events heat up in the eastern Ukraine such technical glitches might happen more often.  Thus I would ask you all - especially those of you who live in Russia or who understand Russian - to share with me and the rest of us any URLs (links) to Russian information sources on the Internet.  I am particularly interested in links to:

1) Regular Russian TV channels, especially the big ones, who offer news with video footage.
2) Any TV channels in the Ukraine who are not controlled by the revolutionary regime in Kiev (are there still any?) especially in Lugansk, Kharkov, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Odessa and Dniepropetrovsk.
3) Any "popular journalism" sites.  Yesterday one guy was streaming live to the Internet from Kharkov and he did a great job of informing about the situation on the ground.
4) any blogs/livejournals especially from the eastern Ukraine
5) any YouTube/RuTube channels with video footage from the Ukraine

In the past I used the website http://tv-novosti.ru/ a lot who offered the newscasts from Russian TV channels with roughly 1-2 hours delay, but the site appears to be down right now.  If there something similar out there?

Here are some examples of what I want to get:

http://tv-novosti.ru/
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/
http://lifenews.ru/watch-live
http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=onair
http://rt.com/on-air/
http://russia.tv/video/?cid=video&d=0

So please send me as many links as you can! (by email or comment)

I will post an updated list in a couple of days for all of you.

Many thanks and kind regards.

The Saker

APPEAL FOR INFORMATION

Dear friends,

The Western propaganda machine is working in overdrive and it is hard to come by any information about what is really happening in Iran, in particular outside Tehran.

Some of you have provided me with most interesting information, sometimes by direct email, sometimes in the comments section.

The next couple of days will be crucial and I urge all of you, in particular those inside Iran or those who speak Farsi, to pass on to me every and any piece of information connected to the developing events in Iran.

Please do not bother with trying to tie your information with any article I publish here. Don't worry about being off-topic. Post whatever you have in the comments section of whatever article is at the top of the page. Even if it is a rumor, please post it (and identify it as a rumor). If it is an analysis, please post it. If it is something completely local to a small town in an Iranian province which has anything at all to do with the situation, please post it.

If you have friends in Iran, please email or call them and ask them what they are seeing and hearing and what they think about the situation. If you know Iranians abroad who have contacts in Iran, ask them to do that.

This struggle began as an (dis)informational war and it will be fought with lies down to the very last moments.

Please help me break the wall of silence and lies and keep the information flowing!

Many thanks and kind regards,

The Saker