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2017/06/20 - 10:01 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says. Vladimir Putin’s Russian Guard is not yet there, but it is rapidly amassing the necessary authority and its leadership...
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2017/02/13 - 18:46 •
Crimea, Russia, Ukraine
What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet received a Russian passport and stateless persons? Ukrainian legislation stipulates that all documents issued in Crimea by...
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2017/02/04 - 12:37 •
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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2017/01/26 - 10:51 •
Crimea, News
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal defender of two high-profile Crimean Tatar activists Ahtem Chiygoz and Ilmi Umerov. If the Russian security...
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2017/01/22 - 14:09 •
Analysis & Opinion, 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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2017/01/17 - 09:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Some in Russia and in the West appear to think that if one inserts the world “hybrid” in front of any crime, it becomes less serious and more acceptable. But just as Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid wars” abroad remain real wars...
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2017/01/15 - 14:20 •
Analysis & Opinion, 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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2017/01/07 - 06:09 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Russia
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation, it is seeking to destroy the civic nation in occupied Crimea that Crimean Tatar leaders had promoted in the 1920s and that had...
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2016/12/29 - 12:35 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
All too many people in the West are casually talking about recognizing Ukraine as lying within a Russian sphere of influence without reflecting what that might mean for Ukraine and Ukrainians. Such people might want to revise their...
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2016/12/16 - 01:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, History, Russia
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea Tatar efforts to restore historic place names, has threatened to “load them on barges and drown them in the Black...
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![A "Pussy for Putin": In 2010, 17-year old Alisa Kharcheva in a group with other 11 students and would-be students of Moscow State University starred in an erotic calendar for Putin's 58th birthday as Miss April. In 2012, Kharcheva posted these photographs with a cat and Putin portraits in a personal blog post entitled "Pussy for Putin." Then she sent a formal notice to Putin’s office and posted her phone number on her LiveJournal entry just in case. “Until Vladimir Vladimirovich decides to pick up his [birthday] gift, the kitty will live with me,” she wrote. According to Reuters, in 2015, a business associate of Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend of Putin, transferred into her possession an apartment in a smart gated complex in a desirable part of Moscow. She was 23 at the time. (Image: Alisa Kharcheva)](//i2.wp.com/euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kharcheva_0411.jpg?resize=362%2C320)
![A "Pussy for Putin": In 2010, 17-year old Alisa Kharcheva in a group with other 11 students and would-be students of Moscow State University starred in an erotic calendar for Putin's 58th birthday as Miss April. In 2012, Kharcheva posted these photographs with a cat and Putin portraits in a personal blog post entitled "Pussy for Putin." Then she sent a formal notice to Putin’s office and posted her phone number on her LiveJournal entry just in case. “Until Vladimir Vladimirovich decides to pick up his [birthday] gift, the kitty will live with me,” she wrote. According to Reuters, in 2015, a business associate of Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend of Putin, transferred into her possession an apartment in a smart gated complex in a desirable part of Moscow. She was 23 at the time. (Image: Alisa Kharcheva)](http://i2.wp.com/euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kharcheva_0411.jpg?resize=362%2C320)
