Interest in a palace coup against Putin said growing among Russian elites
Despite his efforts, Vladimir Putin is not a remake of Stalin and thus could be overthrown in a…
Vilnius editor: Moscow using free Lithuanian media against Lithuania
Moscow trolls have become much more active in Lithuanian media outlets in recent days, a “cynical” exploitation of…
Why Putin says ‘Glory to Ukraine’ – and other Russian anecdotes
Few nations in the world are more given to and gifted in the use of anecdotes about many…
Like Stalin and Mao, Putin needs ‘enemies of the people’ to keep power
To survive, Putin needs to corrupt the Russian people by promoting the idea that “enemies of the people”…
Nemtsov – a Russian liberal whose liberalism didn’t end at Ukraine
Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered last week in the shadow of the Kremlin, was an exception to the…
Moscow’s plan to organize Russian émigré groups into EU parties seen backfiring
In addition to firming up its links to left-wing parties in EU countries and developing relations with right-wing…
Moscow closed GULAG museum because it doesn’t want a ‘territory of freedom’
Sergey Kovalev, a human rights activist who was once an inmate in the Perm camp memorialized by the…
Sources, not conclusions of Nemtsov’s research on Ukraine frightened Kremlin
The Kremlin had no reason to be afraid of the impact of Boris Nemtsov’s conclusion that there are…
Putin ‘has caught up and surpassed Mussolini’
With the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin has caught up with and surpassed Italian Fascist leader Benito…
Moscow analyst: Putin’s ‘greatest task’ is to become a new Stalin and divide world with West
On the 62nd anniversary of his death today, Stalin continues to cast an ever darker shadow over Russia,…
Where will Putin strike next?
The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize, to suggest that old rules and old expectations no longer apply…
Hungary openly helping Putin destabilize Ukraine
Budapest has announced that it has handed out Hungarian citizenship papers to 94,000 people in Transcarpathia in Western…
A truly disturbing trend: non-ethnic Russians using plastic surgery to look more like European Russians
A year ago, Marina Saidukova, a Buryat writer, said how devastating it was that one of her teachers…
For Russians, Putin has been the lesser of the evils
No one would deny that Vladimir Putin now has a cult of personality. However, that is not an…