In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the USSR, and Gorbachev’s comeback to Moscow, The New York Times proclaimed that Russians were ready to undertake “a colossal task of...
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to whip up hysteria against his opponents and thus protect his own power, lawyer Mark Feygin says, even though there are many elements in...
The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s leading opposition figures, is coming to a close. Leonid Martynyuk, friend and colleague of the slain opposition leader, who recently received political asylum in the United...
For followers of events in and around Russia and Ukraine, February is a brutal month. You need true grit to get through all the painful anniversaries of recent injustices and tragedies. February is the anniversary of the tragic deaths of...
Like a dose of polonium, the “moral idiotism” of Vladimir Putin has succeeded in infecting all of Russia with a pathology it won’t be able to escape even after his departure and has already “transformed his regime and himself...
It was a daring move. Friends and colleagues of slain opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have many challenges in Putin’s increasingly repressive Russia. They’re ignored by mainstream media and attacked verbally and physically...
The conflict between the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Ramzan Kadyrov over who is to be held responsible for the murder of Boris Nemtsov is intensifying and increasingly affects Vladimir Putin, Andrey Piontkovsky says,...
But, did you know that for the first and last time, Ukraine celebrated Independence Day on July 16, 1991? The chosen date was based on the first anniversary of the 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, which enshrined political...
