Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy format should be carefully prepared in advance to bring results. And warned that would not like to hold a meeting just for the...
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior – the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the Ukrainian and Russian forces in the Donbas, announced on July 21 – appears against the backdrop of news no less tragic about a...
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and Serebrennikov are harbingers of still more arrests and clear evidence that “any effort to establish a dictatorship in...
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...
Russia under Vladimir Putin resembles an oriental despotism in that all property belongs to the ruler and all people are dependent on him, Igor Eidman says. As a result, it is no surprise that the country’s social pyramid corresponds to...
It has long been a witticism among specialists on international relations that terrorists who succeed are no longer called terrorists either because by their actions, they have become the heads of governments or because they were already...
The “Territory of Terror” memorial museum in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv is located in a place that experienced the horrors of both German Nazi and Soviet Communist regimes. The Lviv ghetto existed here during the German...
The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally it ever more resembles a colony” — albeit one in which the colonial rulers come from the same nationality as most...
A majority of Russians – 57 percent – say they want to live in a democratic state, according to a new survey conducted by Germany’s Friedrich-Nauman Foundation; but an equal or even larger number of them support government actions...
The removal of Sergey Ivanov as head of the Presidential Administration, whatever the proximate causes, “symbolizes a change in eras of the Putin administration,” from one of a kind of collective leadership to a one-man dictatorship...
On 23 June 1978, a Soviet police officer came to the house of a Crimean Tatar Musa Mamut to escort him to a meeting with a prosecutor. Mamut was legally not allowed to live in Crimea, due to his nationality. In fact, he had just returned...
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