‘Dialogue with Russia is possible only if you ignore its madness,’ Portnikov says
Dialogue with Russia is possible only if the West approaches it as “a normal country” and refuses to…
Russia can no longer afford to be the militarist and expansionist power it has always been, Shevtsova says
After a brief attempt to escape from its past in the 1990s, Russia under Vladimir Putin is “again…
Even the Kremlin doesn’t believe its own poll numbers, ‘Nezavisimaya gazeta’ says
The Kremlin it appears “does not believe the ratings” it routinely distributes about the support the Russian people…
Putin benefits from myth that he doesn’t control radical nationalists, Kirillova says
Many people in Russia and the West are inclined to support Vladimir Putin and his policies however much…
Russia at “own very different end of history” – Pavlova
Russia is now experiencing its own “end of history,” Irina Pavlova says, but it has turned out to…
Local elections in Ukraine could work to Moscow’s advantage and undermine Ukraine’s ability to function
Many analysts have warned that local referenda on autonomy in the Donbas could lead to “a parade of…
Putin is Russophobe-in-chief in Russia’s war between the pro-Soviet and the post-Soviet
Vladimir Putin’s statements about the need of the Russian state to come to the aid of ethnic Russians…
‘Putin has barricaded himself in the dead end he has created,’ Illarionov says
“Putin has finally decided” to block all of the ways out from “the dead end into which he…
Putin government stopped fighting HIV/AIDS, Russia ‘at the edge of generalized epidemic,’ Pokrovsky says
The Russian government has in effect stopped fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS and as a result, the number…
After gays and Jews, some Russians are now targeting the Roma again
Tragically, the list of the objects of Russian anger is not only growing but increasingly including many of…
‘After Putin, there will be another Putin’ — Jews again leaving Russia
For the first time since the 1990s, the number of Jews emigrating from Russia to Israel has gone…
Post-Soviet states entered second anti-communist revolutionary period, Shmelyev says
The post-Soviet world is entering its own version of 1968, Aleksandr Shmelyev says, “and everything taking place in…
Putin’s peace offensive on Ukraine means situation is ‘really dangerous’
Vladimir Putin’s “peace offensive,” marked by his call to US President Barack Obama, means that the situation is…
Moscow’s nullification of 1954 transfer of Crimea to Ukraine a dangerous precedent, Sokolov says
The declaration by the Russian Prosecutor General that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to Ukraine in…