Criminal world customs increasingly inform Moscow’s actions, Yakovenko says
Every fourth adult male in Russia has spent some time in prison, Igor Yakovenko says; and in some…
Five signs of less than universal Russian approbation of Crimean Anschluss
Today, on the third anniversary of Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, the Russian government is orchestrating demonstrations across Russia in…
“Even large Russian cities are beginning to die” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
After two fails, Putin starts ‘third stage’ of war against Ukraine, Piontkovsky says
Vladimir Putin’s effort to create "Novorossiya" and his subsequent one to force Ukraine to accept Moscow-controlled bandit territories…
Putin moves to give his “personal guard” KGB-like functions
The Rosbalt news agency is reporting that the Kremlin plans to give the National Guard of Russia additional functions…
Russian agents in Minsk pushing Lukashenka to crack down hard, Belarusian analysts say
Russian agents in the Belarusian security services along with Russian agents in the blogosphere are calling on Alyaksandr…
Proposed citizenship law – the way for Russia to annex other countries
Given their obsession with imperial projects, Aleksandr Golts says, anything Konstantin Zatulin or Natalya Poklonskaya proposes invites to…
Moscow’s objective – gain land corridor to Crimea by seizing Mariupol, Ukrainian analyst says
Although most observers recognize that Moscow is treating the Minsk Accords as a dead letter, few of them…
Putin to the Russian Far East: ‘Why do you need cars? You don’t have roads.’
Many Russians believe that Dmitry Medvedev long ago retired the Marie Antoinette prize for the most insensitive statement…
Hitler’s anschluss and Putin’s: Similarities and differences
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event…
“Putin is War; Putin is Death” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia faces massive rise in unemployment despite hiring by state security structures
The Russian government has done almost everything it can to hide unemployment, encouraging firms and enterprises to keep…
The Belarusian nation has risen against Lukashenka
The Lukashenka regime, “like many other post-Soviet authoritarian” systems, rests “not on the total support of the citizens…
Post-truth world is not something new but a return to the past, Portnikov says
Many people believe that the “post-truth” period the world is entering now is something new, but in fact,…