Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory” by itself will be insufficient for him to dominate Russia in the future, Serhii Ilchenko says; and so the Kremlin leader is...
After Russia’s occupation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine ceased supplying water to this naturally arid region with only 400 mm of annual fallout. Before the occupation, water was supplied to Crimea by the North Crimean Canal. Today, a dam...
Polite and green men Heavily armed and stripped of their insignia, Russian soldiers quietly took control over Crimea’s infrastructure in the turbulent days that followed Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution. In Russia, these soldiers became...
In a speech held in Strasbourg on 23 October, EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, referred to the Black Sea as “a European sea.” Russia’s state-controlled RIA Novosti found her statement so controversial that...
This week, Moscow historian Arkady Popov completes his demolition of what he calls the eight myths of the KrymNash Crimea Is Our movement with an essay in “Yezhednevny zhurnal” about the claims of the backers of that trend that the...
The seventh “Krymnash” CrimeaIsOurs myth, one suggesting that Russia has not engaged in aggression in Crimea and the Donbas but rather responded in a “morally justified” way to the years of “humiliating acts committed by the...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov continues his examination of the eight myths propagated by Russia’s “Krymnash” “CrimeaIsOurs“ notions with a devastating demolition of Russian claims that the Maidan in Ukraine was...
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial integrity because it is not a real state” is the fifth myth of “Krymnashism,” one that has deep roots but that is even...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime have put forward in justification of the Russian Anschluss of Crime. In “Yezhednevny zhurnal,” he takes on...
Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part of its “Crimea is Ours” campaign – the notion that the people of Crimea freely expressed their will regarding the annexation...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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