Demise of Russia likely to be more prolonged, violent, and more supported by the West: Opinion
If Russia disintegrates, there are ever more reasons to believe that it will due to the intensification of…
Moscow Patriarchate says it has churches in 19 African countries, angering Orthodox world but giving FSB expanded possibilities
At the end of 2019, the Patriarch of Alexandria, whose canonical territory encompasses all of Africa, recognized the…
Three signs of enormous tectonic shifts in Ukraine since Russia invaded
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought many changes in the latter, some of which are at risk of…
As newly mobilized arrive in Ukraine, more Russians want to find out how to surrender
The editors of Vyorstka say that between November 28 and December 4, the most recent week for which…
Dispute between Moscow and Kyiv about Soviet property abroad heating up
In the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, all the former union republics subsequently became independent states.…
Russia’s Erzya national movement recognizes Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians
Ukraine's support for indigenous Russian peoples within the current borders of the Russian Federation is prompting an increasing…
Moscow again using and trapped by conspiracy theories to justify Russia’s fight against the West, anthropologist says
During the Cold War, the Soviets frequently used conspiracy theories to justify their confrontation with the West. The…
Syrians, Afghans, North Koreans, and Iranians may enlist in Russian military, Tsyganok Says
In an effort to replenish the dwindling ranks of the Russian army fighting in Ukraine, Moscow is making…
Putin regime has three basic ideas, all taken from Leningrad’s back alleys and the KGB’s torture chambers, Eidman says
Too much ink has been wasted trying to identify the intellectual influences on Putin and his camarilla, the…
Putin’s “annexation” of Donbas showed Crimea was no special case and his loss of Kherson shows Ukraine can retake it, Portnikov says
Putin justified his 2014 Anschluss of Ukraine's Crimea by claiming that Crimea had long been a "sacred" part…
Kyiv now reaching out to Circassian nation
Recognizing that the enemy of its enemy is their friend, Ukrainians have been reaching out to non-Russians and…
Opinion: Putin’s war in Ukraine has opened the way for Circassians to achieve their goals
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has given Circassians greater opportunities than ever before to overcome the divisions of…
Moscow TV is almost silent on Russian retreat from Kherson, so Russians turn elsewhere
The Russian withdrawal from Kherson and the subsequent Ukrainian victory has received scant coverage on Russian state-run television.…
Zelenskyy orders study on extending diplomatic recognition to Chechnya-Ichkeria
Having declared Chechnya-Ichkeria a temporarily occupied land last month and pressed by a petition signed by more than…