Border disputes spreading and intensifying in Eastern Europe, Moscow scholar says
The announcement three weeks ago that Prague is prepared to transfer 360 hectares of territory to Poland in…
Russians in deep denial about their country and the world
“The longing for ‘former greatness’” that many Russians feel is “playing a bad joke” on them, Olga Idrisova…
For Putin, Russia’s isolation is a strategy not a misfortune
Most analysts have suggested that sanctions and international isolation were a cost Vladimir Putin was willing to pay…
Moscow’s success in gutting Crimea’s independent media and Two meanings of ‘Russianization’
In Soviet times, Western analysts often said that Russians in the USSR were subjected to Sovietization while non-Russians…
Moscow overplayed its hand in Moldova and undermined Gagauz vote
Moscow’s interference in the Gagauz Bashkan elections was so blatant that even a Barbie or matryoshka doll could…
Why did Stalin save the life of Hitler’s gauleiter in Ukraine who sent to graves 4 million people?
That the Soviets and the Nazis cooperated even before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and that Stalin and Hitler were…
Like Stalin, Putin makes fascists feel ‘right at home’ in his ‘Reich’
Some Russians explain the holding of a conference in St. Petersburg of fascists from around the world by…
Save Crimean Tatar television!
Many people around the world are talking about the need to launch Russian-language television channels in order that…
Russians repress Ukrainians in Far East and threaten to deport Crimean Tatars there
Ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, the descendants of Ukrainians who moved there voluntarily in late tsarist…
Moscow financier: Russia must be expelled from UN just as USSR was from League of Nations
Vladimir Putin is “not Yeltsin’s successor but Stalin’s,” and Sergey Lavrov is the successor of Stalin’s commissar Vyacheslav…
‘A calm before the storm?’ – Russia’s radical right refocusing on ‘fifth column,’ SOVA says
Positive developments with regard to radical extremist Russian nationalists during 2014 – including a falloff in the number…
Moldova officials: Gagauz election and its pro-Moscow outcome may not be legitimate
Andrey Volentir, secretary of Moldova’s Central Election Commission, says that the Gagauz vote on Sunday that appeared to…
Three more historical parallels for Putin
Whenever people are confronted by changes that call into question existing paradigms, their first reaction typically is to…
Russian imperialism: Only a bare majority of Russians wants Russia to stay within its current borders
Only 57 percent of Russians say that their country should be satisfied with and continue to live within…