Ukraine will never accept violations of Crimean Tatar rights, Poroshenko says
In a message to the Second World Congress of Crimean Tatars now meeting in Ankara, Ukrainian President Petro…
Idiots ‘useful’ and otherwise on the rise in Russia and the West
Idiotism is on the rise in both Russia and the West, with its spread in Russia having transformed…
Rights advocate forced to use ‘Russian-English samizdat’ to speak truths unwelcome in Russia and the West
Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that…
FSB helps Russian Islamists go fight in Syria, prosecutes ones who come back, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
“The Russian special services have controlled” the flow of Islamist radicals from Russia to Syria “from the very…
Moscow tries everything in unsuccessful bid to stop World Crimean Tatar Congress in Ankara
The Russian authorities are doing everything they can -- from threatening Crimean Tatars living in occupied Crimea to…
None of 8 myths in Putin’s ‘Crimea is Ours’ ideology stands up to close examination, Popov says
“’Krimnashizm’” – as the ideologem “Crimea is Ours” is spelled in Russian – consists of a complex of…
Like Milosevic, Putin may destroy his country and end in the Hague, Shtepa suggests
In a comment for Kasparov.ru, Vadim Shtepa suggests that there are obvious “parallels” between Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir…
Jewish scholar fleeing ‘Nazi-like atmosphere’ of Putin’s Russia
Ilya Frank, a Jewish linguist whose approach has defined how Russians study foreign languages for more than a…
Moscow military analyst: Preparing for a war in 2025, Putin wants new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to divide up Ukraine
Vladimir Putin changed his public assessment of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which opened the way to World War…
Apocalyptic Russian nationalist utopias of today parallel their pre-1917 antecedents
In the last years of the Russian Empire, Russian conservatives composed numerous utopias in which “the Russian World…
Crimea braces for another Russian invasion – ‘commissars from Moscow’
Moscow has disbanded two of the agencies it created to integrate occupied Crimea – the Ministry for Crimean…
Crimean residents find quiet ways to protest Russian occupation and display ties to Ukraine
Despite the repressive measures of the Russian occupiers, Crimeans of all ethnic groups have found various ways to…
Donbas militias are “UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY,” says Babchenko
Having launched a “hybrid” war giving it plausible deniability for many, Russia now has a “hybrid” army, a…
Moscow’s Ukrainian war again filling Russian streets with invalids
Moscow may be able to disown two of its soldiers who fought in its war in Ukraine, and…