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Russia now wants NATO out of Bulgaria, Romania, and 12 other countries
On 19 January, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia was ready to consider either discarding the…
Russia moving “significant parts” of its far-eastern military units towards Ukraine: digital sleuths
Read also: Military buildup registered at nearly half of Russian bases at Ukraine’s border in late 2021, satellite…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
Russia downscales demands to keeping Ukraine, Georgia out of NATO
Commenting on the negotiation process with the US, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia was ready…
Russia seeks to maintain its global status by making threats and keeping others off guard, Shevtsova says
Russia is “attempting to maintain its global role with military threats to undermine the status quo at any…
For four reasons, Russian economy on the brink of panic, Shelin says
For four reasons, the Russian economy is on the brink of panic, something that threatens stock prices, ruble…
Russian troop strength in North Caucasus same as at peak of Russo-Circassian War, Beshto says
Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russo-Circassian War (1763-1864) ended, and despite all the…
NATO and Russia agreed to talk more at Brussels talks
Read also: 58% Ukrainians support joining EU, 54% in favor of NATO, IRI Ukraine poll finds NATO Secretary-General…
Bishop Diomid, who led church opposition to ROC MP, dies in car accident on Patriarch Kirill’s birthday
Diomid, who was Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) bishop in Chukotka before being stripped of that rank by the…
Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says
The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…
Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous
Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…
Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…
“Not our war”: leaders of Bashkir national movement call on countrymen to boycott Russia’s war against Ukraine
Leaders of the Bashkir national movement have publicly called on Bashkirs not to take part in Russia’s war…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…
65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years
On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by…
Russia’s FSB reports detaining 106 Ukrainian “neo-Nazis” from the MKU, an organization only the FSB knows about
As the FSB claim, these arrests were aimed to suppress the MKU’s all-Russian online action containing orders to…
Timothy Snyder: Putin’s essay on Ukraine creates mythical history to cover foreign policy failures
[editorial]On July 12 this year, the Kremlin website published a lengthy essay authored by Russian President Vladimir Putin…
“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial
Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia’s most famous human rights organization, accusing it…