A real ‘wedge’ issue: Ukrainian regions in the Russian Federation
Even though Moscow officials feel perfectly free to talk about ethnic Russian communities in other countries and the…
Why only 48% of Ukrainians blame Moscow alone for war in the Donbas?
Forty-eight percent of Ukrainians blame Moscow for the war in the Donbas, while 33 percent blame both Moscow…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
Kremlin official: Moscow can’t sit by when ethnic Russians are “oppressed and persecuted” in former Soviet republics
Speaking in Russian-occupied Crimea, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday gave the clearest sign yet that the…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
‘Who are the anonymous people terrorizing those who criticize Putin?’
As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics,…
Borovoy: Kyiv Shouldn’t Have Taken Part in Minsk Talks and Should Renounce Them ASAP
Staunton, June 5 – The Ukrainian government should not have been drawn into the Minsk talks, and its…
Is Moscow about to be offered easing of sanctions on the West’s terms?
Russian commentator Lilia Shevtsova argues that Moscow is about to be offered a way out of isolation but…
“How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow now training Belarusians in Russian camp headed by openly fascist leader
Belarusians are now being trained in a camp in Russia that is headed by an openly fascist Russian…
Is Ukraine about to face ‘a parade of sovereignties’?
In the early 1990s, the Russian Federation faced what came to be known as “a parade of sovereignties”…
Russia remains a Byzantine state and that may doom it, ‘Gazeta’ editors say
The photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting on what many falsely supposed was the throne of Byzantine emperors have…
Under Putin, Russia has become ‘two nations living in one country,’ commentators say
One of the most powerful ideological memes of Soviet times was the notion that capitalism divided the population…
Russian Defense Ministry creating a “Youth Army”
As part of its program to restore Soviet-era practices of pre-induction military training, something the LDNR has been…