Moscow’s labeling of Protestant groups with Latvian and Ukrainian links ‘undesirable’ has other Protestants in Russia worried
Russian officials say these fears are overblown and that the other Protestant groups have nothing to worry about,…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Belarus could become Russia’s Northern Ireland if Putin pushes for unity, Grashchenko says
A majority of Belarusians don’t want unification and that is especially true among the younger ones, he continues;…
Broader coalition backs Ukraine on Crimea than ever supported Baltic non-recognition policy
Representatives of more than 40 countries met in Kyiv and declared they were forming a Crimea Platform to…
Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
Is Shoygu preparing to become Russian President?
Shoygu first addressed the problem of developing Siberia and about a possible move of the Russian capital, and…
Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says
That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…
Baltic-Russian borders today: A reversal of fortune from the First Cold War
Now, once again, barriers are going up between East and West not everywhere but where they are it…
Moscow supports Northern peoples in ways designed to cost them their way of life and identity, Horyevoy says
The Ukrainian journalist who specializes on religious and ethnic questions presents a damning portrait of what the Russian…
Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus and Moldova
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew…
Moscow upset by new talk in Kyiv about Latinization of Ukrainian
The Ukrainian Institute has used as the occasion for this new discussion the 130th anniversary of the birth…
‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
If anyone wrote Russian history the way Putin writes Ukraine’s, Putin would be outraged, Travin says
The European University specialist says that he will leave to others a critical appraisal of Putin’s words about…
Putin views Ukraine as “the anti-Russia” and the struggle against it as his mission, Shevchuk says
Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine not as a country and nation in its own right but as “'the anti-Russia,’…