The most important change in the Russian Constitution that Vladimir Putin has called for has almost been lost sight of in all the coverage of what has been taking place, Vitaly Portnikov says. That change is Putin’s desire to have the...
The parliaments of Central European and Baltic countries, one by one, have been passing resolutions condemning the Kremlin’s attempts to rewrite history and blame the unleashing of World War II on the victims of the tragedy, and not on...
In today’s message to the Federal Assembly of Russia, President Vladimir Putin proposed a large-scale constitutional reform, which should significantly change the architecture of the state. Putin himself intends to decline to...
The year 2019 ended with the exchanging of New Year’s greetings between the heads of the Ukrainian and Russian states. This was the first such greeting exchange since the start of the Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014. This...
After the election euphoria, the country has sobered up quickly. At first, many Ukrainians thought that it would be enough to change the commander-in-chief. After all, the new commander promised to “come to an agreement somewhere in the...
Nataliya Korolevska is known to have supported the Russian occupation of Ukraine, from the end of 2013 and early 2014. She was active in facilitating the creation of the “LNR” and has made separatist statements and proclaimed her...
Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, one of the most important questions has been whether or not Moscow might repeat that scenario and absorb another territory of a neighboring state. At a conference in Yalta last week, Valentina Goydenko,...
The collapse of Kyiv’s position at home and abroad over the last six months reflects the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s three closest advisors are working for the Kremlin and have given Vladimir Putin a victory he...
The exact date of such a meeting was not announced, but the Kremlin took advantage of the telephone conversation between Putin and Merkel to emphasize again: it is necessary to legislatively secure a special status with broad autonomy for...
Since the beginning of November, there have been fake calls claiming that bombs have been planted in the Kyiv metro station forcing police to search for them; since the beginning of 2019, there have been 20 such calls; and since 2014, 200,...
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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