Putinism resembles ‘a fascist dictatorship’
Putinism, Igor Eidman says, is “a combination of the practice and ideology of the authoritarian regime of Putin,…
Putin’s ‘Russian World’ said a model for dispersed non-Russian nations within Russian Federation
Many commentators are pointing to the influence Vladimir Putin’s irredentist policy in Ukraine is having on non-Russian nations…
Sanctions will allow young Russians to experience Soviet reality, Borovoy says
The imposition of Western sanctions on Russia will allow its younger citizens to “find out what they until…
Russians, not Ukrainians, likely to become greatest victims of Putin’s policies
Despite the horrors Vladimir Putin’s regime continues to inflict on Ukraine, increasingly frequent calls in Moscow for the…
Moscow using refugees from Ukraine to shift ethnic balance in non-Russian republics, Bashkir historian Says
Moscow is directing predominantly ethnic Russian refugees from the fighting in southeastern Ukraine into non-Russian republics of the…
‘Ukrainians will never forgive Russians for this war,’ Luhansk resident says
A resident from Ukraine’s Luhansk Oblast who says he is half Russian in origin has written an open…
Putin policies threaten Moscow’s control of two World War II trophy territories
Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine are echoing across the Russian Federation and now are calling into question Moscow’s…
Words Matter: Russian Forces in Ukraine are not ‘militants’ or ‘rebels’ but ‘invaders’ and ‘occupiers’
Ever since Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Ukraine began, the Western media have struggled over what to call the…
Moscow blocks Siberian message on one site only to have it appear on Euromaidan Press
The Russian government yesterday forced Slon.ru to remove an interview with a leader of the Siberian regionalist movement…
Crimea and Chechnya differ only in that one wanted to join Russia and the other to leave, British MP says
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, chairman of the Commons Defense and Security Committee, says that the difference between Crimea and…
It’s time to rethink the West’s approach to Belarus
Alyaksandr Lukashenka is the brutal ruler of Belarus, “the last dictator in Europe” to use the phrase often…
After Ukraine, Moscow’s closest allies refusing to follow Kremlin line
The two countries Moscow views as its closest partners, Belarus and Kazakhstan, have refused to join its sanctions…
Pre-history of the ‘Donetsk Republic’ goes back almost a decade
Most commentaries assume that the Moscow-backed secessionist “Donetsk Republic” arose in response to the Maidan at the end…
Russians scrambling to explain why people in eastern Ukraine haven’t flocked to secessionist banners
As the Ukrainian military closes in on Moscow-backed forces in southeastern Ukraine, Russian commentators are scrambling to explain…