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2017/06/09 - 03:54 •
Crimea
Summer of 2016, a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol. A regime object, guards are on duty at the entrance, and relatives can meet only briefly and according to the schedule. In the wards, together with patients, there are people who undergo...
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2017/06/09 - 01:50 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Culture, Russia, Ukraine
KIEV (QHA) – According to information from the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, prior to the Russian occupation of Crimea, on the territory of the peninsula there were 6 large historical and cultural preserves, including the Tauric...
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2017/05/29 - 11:00 •
Analysis & Opinion, Archive
It is often said and with some justification that “Russian liberalism ends at the borders with Ukraine” – that is, that Russian liberals support liberal values until it becomes a question of Moscow’s dominance over non-Russians...
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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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2017/05/10 - 11:24 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
“’The Victory Parade’ in Putin’s Russia is unique in its absurdity, one in which an imperial army presents itself as ‘defenders of the motherland,’ occupiers as liberators, and invaders as anti-fascists,” Aleksandr Khots...
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2017/05/10 - 11:02 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the last 18 years through four stages and now is entering its fifth and final one, according to Moscow commentator...
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2017/05/10 - 09:10 •
Analysis & Opinion, Crimea, Russia, Ukraine
Even as the Russian occupation forces do everything they can to repress the Crimean Tatars, the most consistent opponents of Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of their homeland, some in the Russian Duma are proposing to “open the peninsula to...
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2017/04/21 - 19:51 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Some Russians recognize that Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea was simply wrong, others are upset that absorbing the Ukrainian peninsula is costing so much money, but now a third group is angry about Crimea less for those reasons than because...
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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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