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Grani.ru is a Russian daily Internet oppositional newspaper. It has been operating from December 14, 2000, and mainly publishes reviews and analysis of Russian and world political events.
The escalations in occupied Crimea on 7-8 August, in the course of which Russia has accused Ukraine of staging “terror attacks” and claims that it has foiled a “sabotage group,” have left many questions...
The Karel Čapek novel War with the Newts was written two years before Munich. And it describes in detail how western powers step by step hand over Europe to Hitler and where this leads. People even understood all of this then. If not...
Western leaders confer. They confer on how to react to the latest round of Russian aggression, which has supposedly once again taken them by surprise. And, of course, once again the sound of the various pragmatic experts, who advise...
The 138th Motorized Rifle Brigade RF, which will soon be sent to Eastern Ukraine, is made up largely of St. Petersburg conscripts (70%). Conscription began when the division suffered substantial losses in the fighting in Ukraine last...
(A far-sighted article from April this year. The author, a Soviet political prisoner, victim of a stabbing in St. Petersburg in the summer, offers an insight into the devastation Putin’s Crimea adventure has caused to the alliance of...
Photo: ‘Batman’ unit from Saint Petersburg In February 1999, Aleksandr Borodai, son of a Eurasianist philosopher and Igor Strelkov, veteran of separatist wars in Transnistria, Bosnia and the Caucasus wrote about Russian...
Perhaps nowhere in the world was the desire for Scottish independence as strong as it was in Russia. And with about two weeks to go before the day of the referendum, Kremlin hopes appeared to have gained ground. One survey revealed that...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
