Russian language knowledge declining precipitously in the world and even in Russia, Matviyenko says
In 1900, one in every seven people on earth spoke Russian; now only one in 50 does, a…
Russians living near Europe radically different from Russians in the interior, Mironova says
It is an ancient observation that people who live in port cities or in portions of a country…
New Reichstag for Moscow children to storm – ‘a universal meme’ for Putin’s Russia, Movchan says
Last week the Russian defense ministry said that it was building “a mini-Reichstag” at a Moscow amusement park…
Moscow deploys the most dangerous kind of disinformation against Ukraine
Lies are one thing; disinformation quite another, as the late Nathalie Grant warned decades ago. The first can…
Angry Belarusian protests – ‘prototype’ for similar actions in Russia, Kalashnikov says
Street protests in Belarus show that “people are more angered by the arbitrary behavior of the bosses and…
‘Stop feeding Moscow!’ – slogan of next Russian revolution, St. Petersburg regionalist says
The second anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder near the wall of the Kremlin has sparked many memories about…
List of Kremlin-linked deaths since Nemtsov’s murder continues to lengthen
Today, many people around the world will be commemorating the second anniversary of the murder of opposition Russian…
Belarus now pregnant with revolution – Lukashenka losing his base in countryside
Mass demonstrations are taking place in four major cities of Belarus today, and the protest against construction at…
Putin’s Russia pursuing ‘survival by paradox,’ Shevtsova says
Putin’s Russia is “a unique case” in which a country is surviving by paradox, Brookings Institution analyst Lilia…
Putin now fears a threat he helped create – 4,000 Russian citizens fighting for ISIS
Vladimir Putin told Russian military leaders yesterday that Moscow now estimates that there are some 4,000 Russian citizens…
Belarusian demonstrators against Vagrants Law now protest against Lukashenka regime
Over the last ten days, something remarkable has happened in Belarus: Protests against Minsk’s efforts to extract more…
Georgia a victim not just of communism but also of Soviet occupation, memorialization reaffirms
Since 1989 and 1991, it has become a commonplace in the analysis of formerly communist countries that those…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Tax revolt in Belarus: 90% billed for Lukashenka’s vagrants tax refuse to pay
Only 51,600 of the more than 470,000 Belarusians – roughly five percent of the country’s population – who…