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2017/06/04 - 10:55 •
Archive
The massacre of striking Novocherkassk workers by Soviet military units 55 years ago this week initially spread fear throughout the USSR but then helped power the rise of the dissident movement and thus played a key role in the collapse of...
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2017/06/03 - 00:50 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Many analysts in Russia and the West are now openly talking about how the regime of Vladimir Putin could come to an end, making predictions that in many cases appear to be more an expression of their preferences than of the actual...
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2017/05/31 - 03:12 •
History, New Ukraine, Politics, Russia
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files of persons who suffered from repression but also of those who, in a varying degree, cooperated with the Soviet regime....
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2017/05/07 - 11:55 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is that Moscow has arranged things so that they have lived in peace for 72 years. But in fact, Arkady Babchenko points out, the Kremlin...
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2017/05/07 - 11:26 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
A casual consumer of Russian propaganda outlets in advance of Moscow’s commemoration of Victory Day this year could be excused for thinking that the USSR defeated Hitler all on its own and that the Russian people were the only component...
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2017/05/05 - 11:34 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
In yet another manifestation of what Guillermo O’Donnell described as “the powerlessness of the all-powerful,” Lilia Shevtsova argues, Vladimir Putin and his entourage are making a repetition of the events of 1991 ever more likely...
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2017/03/18 - 05:37 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This is perhaps most telling when discussions of its early period (1939—41) are raised. “Protective” invasion? In conventional...
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2017/03/03 - 03:29 •
News, Russia
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai Polozov, after the capture of people who merely came to support the activist Marlen Mustafaev (himself suffering for helping...
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2017/02/12 - 07:00 •
History, Military analysis
On 17 January 2017, the CIA declassified more than 930,000 documents from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) system and hosted them online. Previously, the reports were available to the public at the National Archives in Maryland, USA....
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2016/11/30 - 20:48 •
Analysis & Opinion, History
As Russians and others approach the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, many of them are certain to say that that agreement between the presidents of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus was the death knell for the USSR. But in fact,...
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