A month ago, on the 23rd anniversary of the liberation of Grozny by Ichkerian forces, a group of Chechen activists began a “March for the Supremacy of Law and Justice” at the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg. September 6,...
For the last two weeks, a small group of Chechen activists carrying Chechen, Ukrainian, Turkish, German and American flags has been marching from Strasbourg to Geneva to attract attention to the Chechen cause and seek justice and the rule...
When the Chornobyl nuclear accident took place in 1986, the behavior of the Soviet powers that be was to remain silent, understate the nature of the problem or lie about it and the reaction of the population of the USSR was to fear the...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
A Russian lawyer who posed as a Stalinist and sought the rehabilitation of Stalin criminals, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, in order to conduct what he calls “a secret Nuremberg trial” against the Soviet system has brought...
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide, an action in advance of the 75th anniversary of their deportation in 1944...
The US Library of Congress hosts a number of unique true-color photographs from modern-day Ukraine made by the photographer Prokudin-Gorsky. The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky Collection features color photographic surveys of the...
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced that it is declassifying documents concerning the trial and execution of Admiral Kolchak, the anti-Bolshevik leader in Siberia in...
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later as its supporters hoped because Joseph Stalin violated his own understanding and annexed the Baltic countries, western Ukraine, western Belarus and...
Ever more Kazakhs are revising their views about the early Soviet period when several million of their ancestors died from famine, hundreds of thousands fled to China and some took up arms to fight first the Bolsheviks and then Soviet...
“We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
