Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…
The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says
They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine
In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…
Putin offering Ukraine same deal Stalin offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky says
Adenauer at the time replied that he preferred to remain the chancellor of half of Germany than become…
Putin believes only annexing Ukraine will allow Russia to be a superpower without harm to its ethnic Russian core, Eidman says
When Vladimir Putin said during his “Direct Line” broadcast that his “main achievement” lies ahead, he provided a…
Europe needs graduate programs on information war – Estonian media veteran
Rebane, who worked for 20 years in Estonian television both at the end of the Soviet period and…
More than most post-Soviet nations, Belarusians beginning to overcome Soviet mentality, Dryndov says
Belarusians are beginning to overcome their Soviet mentality and to demand democracy and a law-based state, Olga Dryndova,…
A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak
As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of…
Moscow’s effort to isolate Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia from Finno-Ugric world proves less than fully successful
That effort was described by Prague-based commentator Vadim Sidorov as an effort to erect a new “iron curtain”…
Russia’s Tatarstan to have a Muslim holiday in memory of those who fell fighting Ivan the Terrible in 1552
With the weakening and then collapse of the Soviet empire, Tatar activists began to mark the event with…
Moscow moves from justifying GULAG to glorifying it
Indeed, Viktoriya Nikiforova says, Russians should not accept the widespread myths about Stalin’s camps that have been spread…
Belarus crisis may not work out as Putin hopes, Shelin says
Those things are possible but not necessarily going to happen, the Rosbalt commentator says, because there is the…