After Ukraine, Moscow’s closest allies refusing to follow Kremlin line
The two countries Moscow views as its closest partners, Belarus and Kazakhstan, have refused to join its sanctions…
Pre-history of the ‘Donetsk Republic’ goes back almost a decade
Most commentaries assume that the Moscow-backed secessionist “Donetsk Republic” arose in response to the Maidan at the end…
Russians scrambling to explain why people in eastern Ukraine haven’t flocked to secessionist banners
As the Ukrainian military closes in on Moscow-backed forces in southeastern Ukraine, Russian commentators are scrambling to explain…
Putin’s ‘Russian Spring’ idea was invented by Russian fascists in the 1920s
Commentators in Moscow and the West ever more frequently draw parallels between Vladimir Putin’s ideas and actions and…
Russian nationalist says Ukraine is finished even if it defeats militants
Some Russian nationalists are already looking beyond the defeat of the militants in eastern Ukraine by the Ukrainian…
Many Siberians, no longer identifying as Russians, seek autonomy or independence from Moscow
Residents of the Russian Federation are increasingly identifying not as Russians but as Siberians not only because they…
Stalin was a greater fascist than Bandera or Mussolini
The way in which many in Russia and elsewhere view Stepan Bandera and his anti-Soviet movement during World…
Belarusians challenge Russian national narrative and some Russians are angry
The central Russian narrative on the emergence of the three modern nations of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, a…
Moscow to conduct new census to reduce status of Ukrainians and Tatars in Crimea
Soviet and Russian censuses have always been used for political purposes even if that has required massive falsification.…
Russians and Ukrainians becoming like Serbs and Croatians, Solovey says
The conflict in southeastern Ukraine is becoming like the Yugoslav war with the Russians and Ukrainians becoming like…
Will Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia find themselves like Turkey, forever waiting to join EU?
Many in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia see the association agreements they have now signed with the European Union…
Having failed to stage ‘short victorious war’ in Ukraine, Putin faces problems at home
Both those Russians who continue to press Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine and those who…
Turkey will ‘always stand with Crimean Tatars,’ Ankara says
Turkish Foreign Minister Akhmet Davutoglu yesterday in Ankara received Mustafa Cemilev and Refat Chubarov, the two Crimean Tatar…
Russian nationalist group connected to Strelkov, says “Ukraine is not a state”
The Izborsky Club, a group of intellectuals and writers put together by Aleksandr Prokhanov to promote Russian nationalist…