Putin says Russia gave land to republics and none should have left without giving it back
This represents an even more egregious misreading of the historical record than even the Kremlin leader is usually…
Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says
Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…
‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says
Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…
Russian occupiers treating Crimeans during pandemic even worse than Moscow does Russian Federation residents, Kirillova says
The Putin regime’s failure to provide adequate support for Russians it has ordered to remain at home in…
Pandemic adding to burdens sanctions have imposed on Moscow for seizing Crimea, Umland says
The logic of the sanctions regime the West imposed on Moscow after Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea was not…
Key figure in Boeing MH17 shootdown identified as deputy head of Russia’s FSB Border Service
Just as some leaders seek to distract attention from their old lies by telling new ones, so the…
Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…
Marking Day of the Circassian Flag online – a national action the pandemic couldn’t stop
For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian…
Moscow continues hybrid war against Ukraine despite pandemic, Danilyuk says
Moscow may be unlikely to launch any major new offensive against Ukraine while the pandemic is going on,…
Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year ahead of time, Kruglov says
Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the…
Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says
Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…
Chinese outlet: Russia falling apart and its neighbors must be ready to reclaim what is rightfully theirs
There is only one thing more unpleasant to the ears of many Russians than the suggestion that their…
For Putin, MH17 shootdown hearings more serious than ruble’s fall and coronavirus’ spread, Eggert says
For many, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic turmoil that has led to the collapse of the ruble…
‘Russia can be destroyed from within and Turkey has the confederates there to do it,’ Honchar says
Given Moscow’s attempt to use ethnic Russians in Ukraine against that country, some in Kyiv have suggested the…