Media in Russian-occupied Donbas increasingly like those of North Korea, study finds
Ukrainians living in the Russian-occupied Donbas and those living in the rest of Ukraine exist in “two parallel…
77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of Poland
Many people forget that Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II.…
Like other Ukrainians, Jews are proud of their country and back resistance to Russian aggression, Chief Rabbi says
At the conclusion of the Yalta Jewish Strategy meeting, Yaakov Dov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Kyiv and…
“Moscow borrowed Dracula’s management techniques” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin returning Russia ‘not to Soviet but to Stalinist’ state security system, Felgenhauer says
Reports that Vladimir Putin wants to create a single security agency in place of the plethora of such…
Kremlin’s double standards on language issues in post-Soviet space continued
More than most governments, the Kremlin behaves in exactly the same way it routinely accuses other countries of…
Real human costs of Russian aggression in Ukraine still uncounted, UN says
At a minimum, 9640 people have been killed and 22,431 wounded as a result of military actions in…
NATO won’t do more than express concern, if Putin attacks another former Soviet republic, Illarionov says
If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize into any of the former Soviet republics -- including the…
Putinism represents triumph of ‘feudal traditionalist reaction,’ Skobov says
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov…
Moscow seeks to discredit Russian protests by suggesting Ukraine is behind them
The FSB is spreading stories claiming that Ukrainian nationalists are behind the protests of Kuban farmers and may…
Putin has launched ‘world war against trust,’ Yakovenko says
US President Barack Obama put his finger on what Vladimir Putin is about when he said after his…
Umerov case highlights why Crimean Anschluss a threat to Russians, Portnikov says
All people of good will can only welcome the release of Ilmi Umerov from a psychiatric hospital, after…
Russia hit problems recruiting for war in Donbas, Tymchuk says
Russia’s military commanders over the "LNR" and "DNR" regimes are increasingly concerned about the inability of the two to recruit…
Putin’s hybrid war objective is to capture effective control, Sazonov says
Many in the West have failed to see that “the main goal” of hybrid war is to change…