Could Russia’s 50 thousand-strong Donbas veterans organization become a Russian Freikorps?
Aleksandr Boroday, the former prime minister of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk Peoples Republic," says he is seeking official registration…
Putin prepares to launch major war sooner rather than later, Felshtinsky says
Given his economic problems at home and Western sanctions over Ukraine, many in the West have convinced themselves…
Assimilation of ethnic Russians in Ukraine should worry Moscow, Nevzorov says
An increasing number of ethnic Russians in Ukraine not only are identifying themselves as part of a civic…
Fifth myth of Krymnashism – Ukrainian statehood is ‘artificial’ – demolished by Popov
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial…
Fourth Putin myth about Crimean Anschluss without foundation, Popov says
Moscow historian Arkady Popov has been systematically examining and demolishing the eight myths Vladimir Putin and his regime…
Popov demolishes third ‘KrymNash’ myth – that Crimean people freely expressed their will
Moscow historian Arkady Popov takes up and demolishes the third myth that the Kremlin has promoted as part…
Russian occupation threatens very existence of Crimean Tatar people, Chubarov says
In an appeal to the leaders of Germany, France and Ukraine who are meeting in Berlin tomorrow, Refat…
Russian “perfect storm”: oil at $25, ruble at 125, inflation at 30%
Vladislav Zhukovsky, an economist known for predicting disasters in the Russian economy and for then turning out to…
Lilia Shevtsova: Russia today “only capable of fake militarisation”
Russia truly is “a unique civilization,” one that like ancient Sparta is based on militarism and expansionism now…
Despite a Russian’s claims, US didn’t ‘recognize Donbas’ in 1959 – but what it did do should still worry Moscow
Soviet and now Russian writers have often expressed anger at the Captive Nations Week established by the US…
Russians continue to suffer from Stockholm syndrome, Kirillova says
Most Russians have associate democracy with the problems of the 1990s, but this is not the only reason…
Kremlin planning to get back in the GONGO business in a big way
Having sought to destroy real non-governmental organizations (NGOs) because Vladimir Putin was angered by their democratic qualities and…
‘Homo putinus’ – the successor to ‘homo sovieticus,’ Yakovenko says
Many observers view the behavior of Russians today as a revival of “homo sovieticus,” the special kind of…
Kazakhs come to the aid of a Ukrainian Russians in Almaaty tried to beat up
In Soviet times, it was sometimes said that the best illustration of the meaning of “friendship of the…