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Russian imperialism
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Russia’s ideology is ‘traditional great powerness cleansed of communism,’ Pavlova says
Both supporters and critics of the Putin regime often say his regime lacks an ideology – Aleksandr Podrabinek…
Russian opposition must make right of secession centerpiece of its program, Skobov says
Because imperialism has been and remains at the root of almost all of Russia’s problems, Aleksandr Skobov says,…
Moscow’s false story about Alaska infuriates residents of Russian North
A story Moscow media outlets put out yesterday claimed that an advisor to the governor of the US…
A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the…
‘Stop feeding Moscow!’ – slogan of next Russian revolution, St. Petersburg regionalist says
The second anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder near the wall of the Kremlin has sparked many memories about…
A short guide to the linguicide of the Ukrainian language | Infographics
During the XVII-XX ct, Ukraine was split up between various empires and states. The ruling regime of each of…
The Unsung Lament: Russian Atrocities in Caucasus
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian…
The American style of identity Moscow fears to seek for Russians
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up…
Like Hitler, Putin told the West in advance what he’d do – and the West ignored him
Ten years ago this week, Vladimir Putin told the Munich Security Conference exactly what he intended to do…
Putin may exploit disarray in Washington to launch attack on Belarus, Minsk experts say
Two experts at the Minsk Center for Strategic and International Research say that Vladimir Putin may use the…
Putin’s actions in Avdiivka show he killed his beloved idea of ‘a triune people’ of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Ikhlov says
Like many Russian nationalists, Vladimir Putin has long insisted that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are not separate nations…
Moscow plans to ‘export separatism’ to Baltic countries, Christensen says
Moscow analyst Yuri Christensen says that Moscow plans to “export separatism” across the entire former Soviet space, including Estonia,…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
Russia fell apart when its leaders overrated its strength and that could happen again, Inozemtsev says
Twice in the last “long century,” Russia has fallen apart because its leaders overrated the strength of their…
Putin’s most likely next anschluss – a united Ossetia within the Russian Federation
A Georgian political analyst has warned that Vladimir Putin’s most likely Anschluss in the coming year would involve…
Former Soviet republics must and will become Russia’s ‘protectorates,’ Moscow blogger says
Given loose talk among some in the West about recognizing a Russian sphere of influence over the former…
The ugly things Moscow might do if Ukraine is consigned to a Russian sphere of influence
All too many people in the West are casually talking about recognizing Ukraine as lying within a Russian…
25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…
Russian poetess: Evil and cruelty deified not condemned in Russia today
In Russia today, the state by celebrating some of the most odious figures in the Russian past is…
Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…