Concentration camps for gays? Fake news, claims Russian human rights official
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the…
Moscow reacts to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan switching from Cyrillic with hysterics
Russian reaction to the decisions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to move away from the Cyrillic-based scripts Moscow imposed…
‘Young Russians love Putin, state ownership and socialism,’ poll finds
The massive participation of young Russians in the March 26 anti-corruption demonstrations led many Russian and Western analysts…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…
West fails to recognize nature and scope of Putin’s hybrid war against it, Eidman says
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says,…
American CITIZENS should care about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Many commentators have now answered US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s question, “Why should US taxpayers be interested…
‘Trump has betrayed Russia to escape impeachment’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Making Ukraine mono-ethnic – Putin’s greatest achievement and most fateful failure
Ninety-two percent of Ukrainian citizens now consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, an unprecedented figure that is the product of…
Russian language use in post-Soviet space declining precipitously
The Euromonitor group, using UN and national data sets, reports that the number of people using Russian in…
Behaving badly on big things and small core of Russia’s national strategy under Putin
From making world leaders wait for meetings to mafia-like language from its leaders and diplomats to flouting international…
Putin’s pocket parliament just made it easier for him to falsify presidential election
Yesterday, the Russian State Duma approved on first voting amendments to the law governing presidential elections, including one…
After Tillerson visit, Putin orders sweeping arrests of opposition figures
Last night and this morning after the end of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit, Vladimir Putin…
Truckers now on strike in almost every federal subject of Russia
Andrey Bazhutkin, the leader of the united long-haul truckers organization, says that drivers are now on strike “in…
Russians angry at authorities for failing to prevent terrorist attacks, Gorevoy says
Until recently, in the wake of any terrorist attack inside Russia, Russians focused their anger on the terrorists,…