Turkey refuses Russian ships based in occupied Crimea to dock
The 27 major Turkish ports that normally handle international shipping will not allow any ship to dock if…
Putin lives in an alternative universe and expects everyone to join him there
The best way to understand what Vladimir Putin is doing, most recently in his speech to Russian diplomats,…
Russism Last Refuge of Putinism, Ikhlov Says
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, March 23 – Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in the name…
Russism Last Refuge of Putinism, Ikhlov Says
Paul Goble, originally on Window on Eurasia Staunton, March 23 – Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in the name…
North Caucasians fighting on both sides in Eastern Ukraine
Many commentators have speculated about the possibility that the fighting in eastern Ukraine could spill back into the…
North Caucasians fighting on both sides in Eastern Ukraine
Many commentators have speculated about the possibility that the fighting in eastern Ukraine could spill back into the…
Kaliningrad governor says West sending Maidan activists into Russian regions to spark dissent
Nikolay Tsukanov, the governor of Kaliningrad, says that people he suspects are Maidan activists are arriving in his…
Russian Ukrainophobia differs from usual Xenophobia and is far more dangerous
Xenophobia exists almost everywhere, based as it typically is in a sense of how different other peoples are…
Russian army won’t be ready to intervene in Ukraine before mid-July
The Russian military was ready to invade Ukraine in April but stopped short of doing so, Pavel Felgenhauer,…
FSB preparing to close Muslim institutions in occupied Crimea
Roman Silantyev, notorious for his attacks on Muslim in the Russian Federation but close to the Moscow Patriarchate…
Moscow Patriarchate has lost Ukraine and may lose even more
There is no question that the Moscow Patriarchate has alienated many Ukrainians because of its support for Kremlin…
Fewer than 2% of Crimean Tatars apply for Russian citizenship
Only 5,000 of the 300,000 Crimean Tatars living in the Russian-occupied peninsula have applied for Russian passports over…
60 years ago this week, Ukrainians rose up against the Soviet GULAG at Kengir
Sixty years ago this week, non-Russian prisoners rose up in Kengir against their Soviet GULAG jailors. They were…
Ukraine takes another step on western path it chose 800 years ago
Yesterday, Kyiv took another big step on the road to the West by signing an association agreement with…