To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting
This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…
Trump’s Orwellian “rigged” campaign is straight out of Putin’s propaganda playbook
The US 2016 presidential campaign is nothing short of Orwellian. A billionaire real estate mogul who’s lived the…
Jill Stein insults Russia’s struggle for human rights and environmental justice
Two of Russia’s fiercest environmental activists have written an open letter to Green Party candidate for president Dr. Jill…
Another death of a Russian opposition journalist: Alexander Shchetinin remembered by Kirillova
Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at…
Russian propaganda meddling in US election: RT charges Clinton campaign with McCarthyism
Russia’s propaganda channel RT, available on most cable networks across the entire US, courtesy of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin,…
Putin’s Reign of Terror on Russia’s New Dissidents: “Cossacks” Attack Navalny Family as Police Watch
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund…
Servility and Guilt: Putinists among Russia’s diaspora
Two analysts recently addressed support for Putin among Russia’s diaspora communities against the backdrop of a longstanding tendency…
Ukraine’s Parliament asks BBC to stop using “civil war” for Russia’s aggression
Ukraine’s Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs sent an official letter to British media giant BBC appealing to the…
Heroes past and present: Remembering Bolotnaya and Russia’s Victory Day
Moscow has been abuzz in “Victory Day” fever for weeks. Toddlers, puppies and tanks are draped in the…
Ukraine’s Chornobyl, like Russia’s Chelyabinsk before it: Symbols of untenable Soviet moral decay
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Power Plant disaster. On April 25, 1986, workers…
How Russia’s worst propaganda myths about Ukraine seep into media language
Over the past two years, much has been written about the “Ukraine crisis.” This phrase is, in fact,…
Russia’s Criminalization of Protest: Ildar Dadin’s Appeal and Article 212.1
On March 31, in a much anticipated appellate procedure in Moscow City Court, a judge considered the appeal…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
Nadiya Savchenko: This is my life you are playing with
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko finally got to present her “last word,” or closing statement, in the Donetsk (Russia)…
Worldwide Rallies to Commemorate Anniversary of Boris Nemtsov Murder
For followers of events in and around Russia and Ukraine, February is a brutal month. You need true…
Putin’s Fixes and Fixations: Russia’s President Prefers Stalin to Lenin, Soviet History to Scandals
The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable…
Russia’s David and Goliath, II: Nemtsov protégé Yashin writes report on Chechnya’s Kadyrov
Ilya Yashin announced yesterday on Twitter that he was in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Russia’s restive republic…
WINTER ON FIRE: Oscar-Worthy Documentary on Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution
“Winter on Fire” is a beautiful and important film. It tells the true story of a stunning show…
New Normal in Russia: Putin Critics Punished with Harsh Prison Terms
In the final days of 2015, as the world’s attention was focused on Syria, refugees and terrorism, Russia…
Evidence on perpetrators of war crimes in Russia’s war in Donbas to be submitted to The Hague
A new 156-page investigative report identifies for the first time perpetrators of war crimes in Russia’s war in…