All ‘Chechen versions’ in Nemtsov murder case show Putin to blame
The Kremlin and its supporters in Russia and abroad along with those frightened by the implications of holding…
Support for Putin’s Ukrainian policy softens in Russia but remains high in Russian diaspora
As Russians become aware of the costs that Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine entail, ever fewer of them…
After Putin, Russians will say they were deceived just as Germans did after Hitler
Not all, but “the overwhelming majority of Germans sincerely believed” what Hitler said, just as not all but…
Russian historian: Ukrainian war helped make Russia a neo-totalitarian regime that will fall to the Black Hundreds
The most terrible thing for Russia about its war in Ukraine is the extent to which that conflict…
Putin’s priorities: Propaganda over people and even national defense
Budget documents may seem dry reading most of the time, but they often provide clearer indications than anything…
Russia hosting Europe’s neo-Nazis, nationalists and anti-Semites, Putin supporters all
Even as Moscow denounces anything it views as a manifestation of fascism abroad and prepares to mark the…
Crimeans find a new way to protest Russian occupation — via the Census
There are many ways that the powerless can protest their status – jokes, indifference and contempt among them.…
Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatars recalls Hitler’s treatment of Jews before 1938
Russia’s treatment of the Crimean Tatars since the Anschluss a year ago recalls that of Hitler’s Germany between…
New poll results: Ukrainians fear Russia but don’t trust EU policy of appeasement
Since the Maidan, a new Kyiv poll shows, the share of Ukrainians favoring EU integration has risen from…
In the USSR, there was no sex; in Putin’s Russia, no suicides from medical despair
In the USSR, it was sometimes said, there was no sex because that subject could not be addressed…
Putin not threatened by a coup now but Russia is by its dependence on him, Kyiv analyst says
Kyiv analyst Taras Berezovets says that there is no threat that Vladimir Putin will be overthrown by a…
Unless Moscow suppresses racism, World Cup can’t be held in Russia, FIFA VP says
Given how much racism there is in Russia and how seldom Moscow seeks to rein it in, holding…
A green light for Putin? Germans say West hasn’t found way to block ‘hybrid’ war
Moscow has been encouraged not only by the failure of the West to do more than impose economic…
Russian government Internet trolls effective in forming pro-Putin opinion among youth
Many assume that Russians who turn to the Internet will form very different opinions about Vladimir Putin than…