Posts Tagged
Russian repressions

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  2020/01/20 - 10:49 • International, Op-ed

  Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts

  Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that legalize the presidentialist dictatorship he has already created, many may have failed to notice that a law he signed restoring a...

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  2019/11/02 - 11:22 • Crimea, Op-ed

  46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their...

  Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights abuses in Crimea is to end the Russian occupation, called on the international community to continue to press for that end, and...

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  2019/10/25 - 11:40 • Crimea, Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea

  Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea and that it has promoted demographic change there in violation of the Geneva Convention. But Ukrainian experts are...

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  2019/06/03 - 21:21 • History, Hybrid War, More

  Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”

  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...

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  2019/03/23 - 11:56 • International, Op-ed

  Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryev and Ikhlov say

  All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or another Moscow action in isolation and do not connect the dots; but if one does, they say, it becomes obvious that the Kremlin is...

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  2019/03/19 - 12:57 • More

  Since Anschluss, Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars, Kashapov says

  When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course of a few days and sent them to Central Asia, an action that is almost universally recognized and denounced as an act of genocide. But today,...

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  2019/03/11 - 12:17 • Crimea, Op-ed

  It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says

  Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who happen to live on the Russian-occupied peninsula and thus do not have the legitimate right to a separate national self-determination, an...

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  2019/02/16 - 12:37 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says

  Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in Moscow, voted for pro-Russian parties and in 2014 welcomed the annexation by Russia. But in the years since, Andrey...

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  2019/02/13 - 20:05 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Russia’s deportation of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars from occupied Crimea a “neo-imperial...

  In February 2014, Russia started a military operation to occupy and annex a part Ukraine – the Crimean peninsula. Within weeks, Russian troops without insignia took control of the local official bodies, critical infrastructure...

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  2019/01/29 - 16:46 • International, More

  FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad,...

  The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled” by the special services of the Russian Federation, the FSB at home and the SVR abroad, according to Yehor Bozhok, the head...

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