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Russian state language policy: In Russia you may speak any language, as long as it is Russian (Image: Euromaidan Press)

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Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says

But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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Some in Moscow and Nur-Sultan see Kazakhstan becoming ‘another Ukraine’

The Svobodnaya pressa commentator surveys the views of some and provides especially instructive reaction by Yevgeny Valyayev of…

byPaul A. Goble

Image of Volodymyr the Great of Kyiv in the 2nd edition of Mykola Arkas's "History of Ukraine-Rus" published in Krakow, 1912.

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Is Volodymyr the Great a prince of Kyivan Rus or Ukraine-Rus?

The auction house Roma Numismatics Limited has listed a silver coin of Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv with…

byRadio Liberty

Universal Patriarch Bartholomew signing the tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on January 5, 2019. Metropolitan Epiphanius of Ukraine stands behind him. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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39% of Orthodox in Ukraine allied to Ukrainian church, more than twice than to the Moscow church

Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing…

byPaul A. Goble

This political cartoon by an anonymous Russian artist accurately represents Russia of Putin's rule. It is a post-communist "prison of nations" which replaced the cult of the Party with the cult of Putin and uses the Russian Orthodox church as a major propaganda and manipulation tool and a convenient cover for Russian spy services abroad.

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Moscow’s labeling of Protestant groups with Latvian and Ukrainian links ‘undesirable’ has other Protestants in Russia worried

Russian officials say these fears are overblown and that the other Protestant groups have nothing to worry about,…

byPaul A. Goble

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No NATO plan for Ukraine. What Zelenskyy and Biden promised — and did not promise — each other

Javelins, reform plan, and $2.5 bn of military aid: Ukraine and USA sign joint statement on strategic partnership…

byEuropean Pravda

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Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war

In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, thus breaching international…

byChristine Chraibi

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In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says

In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…

byPaul A. Goble

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Belarus could become Russia’s Northern Ireland if Putin pushes for unity, Grashchenko says

A majority of Belarusians don’t want unification and that is especially true among the younger ones, he continues;…

byPaul A. Goble

Working session of the inaugural summit of the Crimea Platform on August 23, 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine (Photo- President.gov.ua)

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Broader coalition backs Ukraine on Crimea than ever supported Baltic non-recognition policy

Representatives of more than 40 countries met in Kyiv and declared they were forming a Crimea Platform to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukrainian dissident Marynovych: “Ukrainians are still making their way through the desert, searching for their Mount Sinai…”

– If we go back 30 years in history, could you, a prisoner of the communist regime, have…

byUkrainian media sources

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Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says

The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…

byPaul A. Goble

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The five biggest trifles of disinformation

“There is nothing as important as trifles.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Vladimir Putin with Russian defense minister Sergey Shoigu

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Is Shoygu preparing to become Russian President?

Shoygu first addressed the problem of developing Siberia and about a possible move of the Russian capital, and…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin Propaganda (Image Credit: PREDICTHISTUNPREDICTPAST.BLOGSPOT.COM)

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Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says

That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…

byPaul A. Goble

Map: Russia (red), Belarus (pink), and Ukraine (yellow)

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Baltic-Russian borders today: A reversal of fortune from the First Cold War

Now, once again, barriers are going up between East and West not everywhere but where they are it…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian state crest in front of full moon (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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Moscow supports Northern peoples in ways designed to cost them their way of life and identity, Horyevoy says

The Ukrainian journalist who specializes on religious and ethnic questions presents a damning portrait of what the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

Excerpt of Serhii Pylypenko's Open Letter article written in Ukrainian using Latin script (Source: zbruc.eu)

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Moscow upset by new talk in Kyiv about Latinization of Ukrainian

The Ukrainian Institute has used as the occasion for this new discussion the 130th anniversary of the birth…

byPaul A. Goble

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On historical unity in a prison of nations: Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance Head strikes back at Putin

For decades, Vladimir Putin has been working diligently on his international image. He believes it is not enough…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Local troops of Putin's Youth Army on parade in the city of Sochi, 2017. The Russian Defense Ministry founded the "Youth Army" troops for children from 8 to 18 years old in 2016. (Photo: privetsochi.ru)

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‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says

What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…

byPaul A. Goble