Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over half of that, OilStat analysts say
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since…
No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places
The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…
Moscow’s plans to cut military pensions seen driving military retirees to back opposition
The first rule of any government is that the state pays the people with guns charged with protecting…
Kremlin telling Russians to face falling living standards for years to come, Shelin says
“For the first time in the 21st century, the [Russian] regime is seeking to accustom its citizens to…
A rare Russian glimpse of fate of Vlasovites forcibly returned to the USSR
There are many Stalinist crimes Russian writers either pass over in silence or minimize, but one that is…
FSB seeking to block or control all links between Russians and emigration, Melikhov says
Like the KGB in Soviet times, the Russian FSB is seeking to block or take control of any…
‘If a bourgeois revolution is to start in Russia, it will begin with Tatarstan,’ Kazan historian says
Just as jadidist writers like Yosef Akchura played a key role in elaborating “the Tatar model” that became…
FIFA said investigating Russian soccer team for doping, putting 2018 World Cup at risk
A British newspaper is reporting that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, is now investigating all the…
10-dollar Putin icons and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Is a Russian Oliver Stone going to make a movie about Donald Trump?
Vladimir Surin, director of the Moscow Center for the Study of Socially Significant Problems, says a Russian film…
Belarus not threatened by a Ukrainian scenario: It has its own ‘little green men,’ Ukrainian analyst says
Belarus is not currently threatened by a Russian action like the one Moscow has carried out in Ukraine…
Putin regime now ‘one grandiose fake’ from top to bottom, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s use of a video showing American planes to impress Oliver Stone of the power of Russian…
Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…
Russia’s long-haul truckers add a political dimension to strike against Plato system
The long-haul truckers, who have been striking against the Plato fee system, have decided to extend their action…