‘Feudal stability’ in post-Soviet States points to collapse and chaos ahead, Portnikov says
The situations of Russia and most post-Soviet states “in a surprising way” recall the late Brezhnev period in…
Putin regime has long had an ideology – Great Power Imperialism — Pavlova says
Far too many people in Russia and the West are prepared to accept the notion that Moscow does…
Putin invaded Ukraine to deflect Russian nationalist threat to himself, Demushkin says
Vladimir Putin launched his “Russian world” project and invaded Ukraine in the hopes that radical Russian nationalists who…
Putin accelerating his plan for long-term confrontation with the West, Illarionov says
For the last decade, Vladimir Putin has pursued a plan to isolate his country from the outside world…
Moscow spy services said deploying Russian criminal world against Ukraine
Many are now being distracted by the Kremlin’s charm offensive, but Moscow continues its hybrid war against Ukraine;…
“Jaw casts fill potholes in Siberia” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow may preemptively boycott Rio Olympiad, Inozemtsev says
Much attention has been devoted to the possibility that the doping scandal that has engulfed Russian sports will…
Doping scandal may cost Moscow the 2018 World Cup, analysts say
If as a result of the large-scale doping scandal, the International Olympic Committee votes to prevent Russian athletes…
‘Reintegration of Donbas will be impossible after five years,’ senior Kyiv official says
Ukraine must move quickly to promote the reintegration of the Donbas because “five years from now,” Heorhiy Tuka,…
Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…
Putin elite’s anti-Americanism older and more deeply held than that of other Russians (study)
Members of the Russian elite became anti-American sooner and are more committed to anti-Americanism now than is the…
Russians won’t admit expulsion of Circassians was genocide — but Ukrainians should
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter…
“Chinese tourists laugh at Russia” and dozen more of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
1997 Treaty gave Moscow right to send army into Crimea before referendum, Chizhov says
A senior Russian diplomat has just come up with a justification for Russia having sent 9,000 military personnel…