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2017/06/11 - 11:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, News, Russia
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...
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2017/05/09 - 03:26 •
History, Russia
The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its time boundaries and accentuates the Soviet-German military conflict of 1941-1945. The start of the war, 1939, when Germany and the USSR invaded...
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2017/05/07 - 11:55 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is that Moscow has arranged things so that they have lived in peace for 72 years. But in fact, Arkady Babchenko points out, the Kremlin...
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2017/04/17 - 11:10 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications now are available online, to destroying archives on which future research can be based, according to...
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2017/02/16 - 22:13 •
History
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian poet Circassians have always been a small people. Living in the harsh conditions of the Caucasus Mountain...
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2017/02/15 - 13:15 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up their ethnic identities in favor of a political identity as ‘Rossiyane‘ often suggest that they are doing no more than...
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2017/01/06 - 06:48 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Twice in the last “long century,” Russia has fallen apart because its leaders overrated the strength of their own country and got involved in foreign actions Russia could not afford, Vladislav Inozemtsev says, a pattern that is...
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2016/12/28 - 22:02 •
Analysis & Opinion, History, Politics, Russia
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook page featuring pictures of family pets that have destroyed something with a legend underneath claiming that “the Russians did it.” That has...
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2016/12/12 - 09:39 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
In Russia today, the state by celebrating some of the most odious figures in the Russian past is promoting “the deification of evil and cruelty,” Olga Sedakova says. And such celebration of an evil past together with a desire to return...
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2016/11/30 - 20:48 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
As Russians and others approach the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, many of them are certain to say that that agreement between the presidents of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus was the death knell for the USSR. But in fact,...
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