More than one Ukrainian in four speaks Polish, new survey finds
A new survey finds that 28 percent of Ukrainians say they have some knowledge of Polish, yet another…
‘Friendship of the peoples’ – one of many Soviet myths waiting to be debunked, Mirovich says
Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are…
Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says
The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…
Russian opposition shows it doesn’t understand situation, Pastukhov says
Since the recent Russian Duma election, some members of the Russian opposition have tied themselves in knots with…
Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims
There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…
Putin’s party won less than a third of the vote and not the nearly half reported, Shpilkin says
Had there not been massive falsification of the vote in the Russian Duma elections, Putin's United Russia party…
Entire spectrum of Russian propaganda increasingly aggressive in its messaging, Kirillova says
Russian propaganda can be classified into three broad categories, and until recently, only the last contained aggressive messages,…
Latinization of Ukrainian and Belarusian threatens Moscow’s ability to address Russia’s demographic crisis, Khavich says
If Ukraine and Belarus shift from the Cyrillic-based alphabets they now use to Latin scripts, they will not…
Moscow Patriarch lays groundwork for challenging primacy of Ecumenical Patriarchate
At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox…
Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
Kremlin’s panic over “smart voting” ends any prospect election will be viewed as legitimate, Pastukhov says
The Kremlin recognizes this, the London-based Russian analyst says; and that explains why its reaction has not been…
Moscow planning to slow down Internet speeds to where they were in the 1990s, Grozev says
The Bellingcat investigative journalist outlined this plan in a presentation to this year’s Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn…
Western sanctions regime must be fundamentally revised because Russia is a mafia state, Gessen says
The Russian-American commentator argues that the West’s sanctions regime is based on the false assumption that Moscow will…
Putinism is the post-industrial form of fascism, Skobov says
Putin’s attention to and approval of ever more distant if equally odious figures from Russia’s medieval past show…