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2017/06/17 - 20:26 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen from 25 million in 1989 to 14 million today, but only 6.5 million of that decline consists of Russians who returned to the Russian...
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2017/06/05 - 11:03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Rosstat, the Russian government’s statistics agency, reports that during the first four months of 2017, Russians gave birth to almost 70,000 fewer children than they did in the comparable period a year earlier, a decline that wiped out...
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2017/05/19 - 12:32 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Politics, Russia
Vladimir Putin, who exploited Russian euphoria over the Anschluss of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea three years ago to boost his own power, now wants Russians to pay less attention to that region so that they will not be as inclined to...
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2017/04/30 - 07:29 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Just before the May holidays, Russia’s state statistical agency released figures on births, deaths and marriages that Moscow may hope no one will notice because they are so bad; but Russian economists have sounded the alarm that the...
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2017/04/20 - 04:35 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Eight days ago, US Secretary of State posed a rhetorical question to his G-7 counterparts, “Why should US taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?” There are both compelling reasons why they should be and even more why the real question is...
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2017/04/05 - 09:44 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
With the passing of time, the euphoria with which Russians greeted the Crimean Anschluss has weakened, a process that has been intensified by declines in standard of living and that has left public attitudes about the regime more negative...
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2017/02/15 - 14:03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Many of the problems Russians now face are rooted in their firmly-held misconceptions about the nature of Russia and Russian national identity. To help them out, Dmitry Olshansky, a columnist for “Komsomolskaya pravda,” identifies...
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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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2016/12/19 - 07:28 •
Analysis & Opinion, Ukraine
Two new commentaries, one about Russia’s refusal to enter into any larger political structure in 1991 if Ukraine refused to take part and a second about the propensity of Ukrainians to view Russians as a fraternal people even now after...
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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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