Long-haul drivers converged on Moscow from five regions last weekend
Long-haul truck drivers from Daghestan, Ryazan, Saratov, Orenburg and St. Petersburg converged on Moscow over the weekend only…
Russia supplying North Korea with ever more coal and oil, Moscow business paper says
In the face of Western efforts to isolate North Korea, Russia has almost doubled its sales of coal…
Moscow Patriarchate still has more parishes in Ukraine than its Kyiv counterpart but fewer followers
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church routinely says that it has more parishes in Ukraine than…
Ukrainians can’t do without social media but they can do without its Russian segment
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that “Ukrainians can live without Russian social networks” because they will be able…
Latgals want their place in the sun but in Latvia, not in Russia
Many in the West have speculated that Vladimir Putin might exploit the social, linguistic and ethnic problems in…
Russia’s act of genocide against Circassians lasted more than 150 years, Chukhua says
Today, Circassians and their supporters mark the 153rd anniversary of the day Russian forces expelled Circassian nation from…
Putin’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda playing role state anti-Semitism did in Soviet times, Ikhlov says
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism,…
“Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia opens shipping route between Vladivostok and North Korea
Ignoring US calls for isolating North Korea in order to force Pyongyang to rein in its nuclear program,…
Putting Kyiv’s decision on Russian social media in context
Moscow and Western officials and commentators have sharply criticized Kyiv’s decision to block access to Russian social media,…
Putin doesn’t want Russians to continue focusing on Crimea, Goryunova says
Vladimir Putin, who exploited Russian euphoria over the Anschluss of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea three years ago…
Ukrainian legislation about religion will finalize divorce between Kyiv and Moscow
Two pieces of draft legislation about religious organizations in Ukraine scheduled to be taken up by the Verkhovna…
Moscow planning to send 60,000 Muslim troops to Syria, Saudi newspaper says
Citing unnamed “informed sources,” a Saudi newspaper says that “Russia has prepared approximately 60,000” predominantly Sunni Muslim soldiers…
Why Putin can’t allow Ukraine to succeed and why the West must make sure it does
In the course of a wide-ranging discussion in advance of the release of his new book on Russia…