Russia violating international law by closing Kerch Straits to naval vessels until October, Kyiv says
The international community has focused on Russia’s buildup of forces on territory adjoining Ukraine, concerned that such a…
Seizing Ukrainian water for Russian-occupied Crimea #1 task for Putin, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin has long made clear that he doesn’t believe that Ukraine has a right to exist as…
Putin regime “on the road to committing suicide,” Piontkovsky says
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Kremlin behaving toward Ukraine now the way it did toward Georgia before 2008 invasion, Portnikov says
Moscow’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine and its dislocation of troops near the Ukrainian border echo the propaganda it…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Invading Ukraine now could spark protests that would threaten Putin regime, Russian commentator says
The Rosbalt commentator says that given the uncertainties of any such conflict, no one in the Russian leadership can…
CIS no longer expecting Ukraine to return, ‘Kommersant’ says
Ukraine’s slow-motion exit from the Commonwealth of Independent States has led some in Moscow to think it might…
Moscow will be ready for a war against Ukraine ‘in a month,’ Felgenhauer says
With the turn of the calendar and increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West,…
“World will see a free Ichkeria and a free Tatarstan,” secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council says
These efforts appeared to peak in 2018 and 2019 when the Verkhovna Rada discussed and then passed a…
Putin claims right to territories of former Soviet republics
Speaking to a meeting on the seventh anniversary of his Anschluss of Crimea, Vladimir Putin said that the…
Kremlin simultaneously seeking to destroy republics and nations on which they rest, Shro says
In a Guildhall commentary, he suggests that these two processes, in turn, are connected with “the strengthening of…
Catalonian portal highlights Udmurt efforts to preserve that nation and its language
Alex Bustos, a Catalan journalist who has made a visit to Russia, points out that “in the very…
Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976
Two years ago, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s Russia had more political prisoners than…
Demise of USSR might have been delayed but not prevented by Bolshevik-style bloodshed, Milyuk says
But they ignore the reality that centrifugal forces were already so great, the leader of the Other Russia…