Russian opposition shows it doesn’t understand situation, Pastukhov says
Since the recent Russian Duma election, some members of the Russian opposition have tied themselves in knots with…
Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial to the victims
There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar [also known as Babi Yar], the site…
Putin’s party won less than a third of the vote and not the nearly half reported, Shpilkin says
Had there not been massive falsification of the vote in the Russian Duma elections, Putin's United Russia party…
Entire spectrum of Russian propaganda increasingly aggressive in its messaging, Kirillova says
Russian propaganda can be classified into three broad categories, and until recently, only the last contained aggressive messages,…
Latinization of Ukrainian and Belarusian threatens Moscow’s ability to address Russia’s demographic crisis, Khavich says
If Ukraine and Belarus shift from the Cyrillic-based alphabets they now use to Latin scripts, they will not…
Moscow Patriarch lays groundwork for challenging primacy of Ecumenical Patriarchate
At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox…
Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
Kremlin’s panic over “smart voting” ends any prospect election will be viewed as legitimate, Pastukhov says
The Kremlin recognizes this, the London-based Russian analyst says; and that explains why its reaction has not been…
Moscow planning to slow down Internet speeds to where they were in the 1990s, Grozev says
The Bellingcat investigative journalist outlined this plan in a presentation to this year’s Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn…
Western sanctions regime must be fundamentally revised because Russia is a mafia state, Gessen says
The Russian-American commentator argues that the West’s sanctions regime is based on the false assumption that Moscow will…
Putinism is the post-industrial form of fascism, Skobov says
Putin’s attention to and approval of ever more distant if equally odious figures from Russia’s medieval past show…
Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says
But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…
Some in Moscow and Nur-Sultan see Kazakhstan becoming ‘another Ukraine’
The Svobodnaya pressa commentator surveys the views of some and provides especially instructive reaction by Yevgeny Valyayev of…
39% of Orthodox in Ukraine allied to Ukrainian church, more than twice than to the Moscow church
Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing…