Ever since President Donald Trump elevated self-proclaimed white nationalist Steve Bannon to the National Security Council at the expense of the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the author of...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
Even before the upcoming trials of former FIFA staffers confirm as seems likely that Moscow corruptly secured the hosting of the 2018 World Cup, a finding that would make it unthinkable to allow the competition to occur in Russia, there...
Given how much racism there is in Russia and how seldom Moscow seeks to rein it in, holding the 2018 World Cup in that country would be impossible, according to Jeffrey Webb, the vice president of FIFA, the international governing board of...
A year ago, Marina Saidukova, a Buryat writer, said how devastating it was that one of her teachers told her that “you are so beautiful that you are almost a Russian,” something so offensive and damaging that she has never been able to...
What OSCE spotted The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) reported that on 7 August in the border area of the “non-government-controlled” territory, its long-range drone spotted two convoys of canvas-covered six-wheeled cargo...
