Russian authorities stage largest ever one-day raid against Jehovah’s witnesses
Not only does this bring to more than 1100 the number of searches and seizures the Russian authorities…
Putin’s talk about Russian lands in neighboring countries didn’t come out of nowhere
Most commentaries reacted to Putin’s words either with enthusiasm (some Russian imperialists), horror (almost everyone else in Russia…
Russian liberals opened the way for return of Stalinism, Inozsemtsev says
That is because the ways they chose to attack Stalin had the effect of separating the dictator from…
Current crisis pushing Russia toward Mussolini-style fascism, Pereslegin says
The Russian futurologist says that what happened across Europe in the 1930s is likely to be repeated given…
Will a new ‘revolution of anecdotes’ undermine Putin? A baker’s dozen of jokes about the Russian president
Igor Chubais correctly observes that “a Revolution of Anecdotes” in Brezhnev’s time was a major factor in the…
1990s last time when Soviet faith in sudden transformation was widespread in Russia, Kuznetsov says
“For many people of the older generation,” he writes, “any promise of a bright future or talks that…
Moscow outraged by calls to remove statues of Russian colonizer in Alaska
The statue of Baranov remains in place, and no decision has yet been taken to do anything to…
Putin restoring Brezhnev constitution that led to perestroika, Shtepa says
But in restoring what is very much a Leonid Brezhnev-style constitution, the Russian regionalist says, the Kremlin leader…
Ukraine declassifies 190 more KGB documents on Chornobyl disaster
In a new book, The Chernobyl Dossier of the KGB: From Construction to the Accident (in Ukrainian), Kyiv’s…
Belarusian transition more likely to follow Armenian rather than Ukrainian scenario, Lukyanov says
According to Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs and one of the most prominent foreign…
95 percent of Russians now say victory in 1945 was main event for Russia in the 20th century
Such views were more widely held among older Russians and less widely among younger ones, but, according to…
Putin says Russia gave land to republics and none should have left without giving it back
This represents an even more egregious misreading of the historical record than even the Kremlin leader is usually…
Putin moving from ‘Great Victory’ to hostility to entire world – and young Russians are ready to follow him, Ilchenko says
Just as “Crimea is Ours” paled with time as a mobilizing tool, so too Vladimir Putin’s “Great Victory”…
‘Crimean Tatar tragedy of 1944 being repeated’ and with more damaging effect, Dzhemilev says
Seventy-six years ago on May 18, Stalin ordered the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homelands to…