Western leaders have made Putin into a Superman to avoid facing up to their own mistakes, Inozemtsev says
One of the most effective ways to conceal from oneself and others his or her failures is to…
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Moscow moves up plan to finally scrap Soviet-era missiles
Thirty years after the end of the USSR, the Russian defense ministry has announced that it will begin…
![Vladimir Putin's wrestling coach, the person who reportedly helped him get admitted to the Leningrad State University using his connections, was one of the city's top criminals, had served 20 years in prison, and died in a gang battle at 57. Putin admiringly wrote about him in his memoirs called "From the First Person" without using the coach's surname or mentioning his criminal links (for obvious reasons). As the engraving on his grave stone states, the coach Leonid Ionovich Usvyatsov composed the epitaphs himself. [Translator: Please note that in the original Russian the epitaphs crudely rhyme, but the translation did not attempt to reproduce rhyming prioritizing accuracy instead.] The epitaph on the front panel says: "A grave and on the grave there is an epitaph: 'I am dead, but mafia is immortal.'" The back panel is engraved with the following epitaphs: "Hooray! I finally died!!! All of my life I worked for broads like a slave. Now I won't spend a kopeck on this liver sausage anymore." "I gave her my two final bangs and then was carried away on a hearse." "Let's drink to us all, because the curtain will soon fall." (Image: openrussia.org)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/4bbcb9a683811.gif)
Fusion of state and criminal world in Russia even more dangerous than absence of democracy, Pastukhov says
Russia has only rarely been a democracy and certainly is not one now, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but the…
Moscow’s continuing lies about Katyn ‘analogous to Holocaust denials,’ Romanov says
In December last year, an all-Russian television channel owned by Gazprom Media showed a four-part series on the…
Opposition to QR Codes in Russia far broader and more political than to vaccines, Kagarlitsky says
Russian opposition to the recent introduction of personal QR codes to identify individuals, control their movement and check…
For Putin, it’s all about Crimea
After several months of Russian statements that the country’s security depends on obtaining guarantees that Ukraine and other…
Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
Why is Russia escalating now? Will it launch a major invasion of Ukraine? Three issues to consider.
Russia’s aggressive actions raise several important questions about a major war with Ukraine, the Kremlin’s goals, reasons, and…
In new film, Putin promises ‘no mercy’ to those who ‘cooperated with West’ in destruction of USSR, Kolerov says
In a new documentary film about Russia in the 1990s presented by the Russian state television, Vladimir Putin…
30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…
Moscow set to claim even more of Arctic on basis of research by Russian Navy
Research by Russian naval vessels will allow Moscow to claim even more of the Arctic Ocean as extending…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
The next phase of the Hybrid War, or why Russia is unlikely to invade Ukraine
European security has greatly deteriorated in the last months. Europe is experiencing a Russian-induced energy and migration crisis.…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
New Russian aggression in Ukraine will lead not just to sanctions but to a new Iron Curtain, Skobov says
Moscow commentators and presumably the Kremlin, Aleksandr Skobov says, are suggesting that the West has already capitulated to…
Russia-West talks have ended in uncertainty. Now it’s time to act.
Last week, the international community anxiously observed Russia’s sessions with various Western representatives. Over the span of four…
Russia seeks to maintain its global status by making threats and keeping others off guard, Shevtsova says
Russia is “attempting to maintain its global role with military threats to undermine the status quo at any…
For four reasons, Russian economy on the brink of panic, Shelin says
For four reasons, the Russian economy is on the brink of panic, something that threatens stock prices, ruble…
Russian troop strength in North Caucasus same as at peak of Russo-Circassian War, Beshto says
Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russo-Circassian War (1763-1864) ended, and despite all the…
Bishop Diomid, who led church opposition to ROC MP, dies in car accident on Patriarch Kirill’s birthday
Diomid, who was Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) bishop in Chukotka before being stripped of that rank by the…