In Soviet times, it was sometimes said that the best illustration of the meaning of “friendship of the peoples” was when a Russian, a Ukrainian, and an Armenian would get together to beat up a Central Asian, an anecdote that reflected...
Together with the United States, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Ukraine was considered a country “most unfriendly to Russia” as reported by the poll results of the Levada Center, a Moscow-based sociological research firm. 73% of...
Early presidential elections resemble a staged play under the facade of democracy. Uncompetitive elections are a way for Nazarbayev to consolidate autocratic power. On the eve of the election, the president’s political opponents are...
The Western media have kept close track of the growing list of world leaders who won’t be attending Victory Day festivities in Moscow this year, but another trend that may be more important – the decision of Russia’s Commonwealth of...
The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize, to suggest that old rules and old expectations no longer apply and thereby increase uncertainty and fear. That explains why someone like Kseniya Sochak has suggested that she is next on Putin’s...
In 1876, in the Russian town of Nevel, a little Bolshevik figure by the name of Philip Isaevich Goloshchekin was born. The young Goloshchekin discovered Marxist radicalism quickly and joined the burgeoning Russian Social Democratic Labour...
Vitaliy Portnikov It is in Ukraine’s interest to restrain Putin from engaging in war until the collapse of his regime, and this collapse is inevitable. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavlo Klimkin, has reported on the...
On December 22, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. According to Radio Free Europe, the meeting produced agreements on deliveries of Kazakh coal to Ukraine and...
The fact that the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan, Alexander Lukashenko and Nursultan Nazarbayev, have decided to visit Kyiv on the eve of the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Council in the Russian capital — in other words...
The Russian Prime Minister awed the Kazakh press. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who may be fired from his post by Putin soon, held a meeting with the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. According to the press service of...
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern Ukraine to wage war against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, another silent front opened in the classrooms of...
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