Moscow’s effort to isolate Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia from Finno-Ugric world proves less than fully successful
That effort was described by Prague-based commentator Vadim Sidorov as an effort to erect a new “iron curtain”…
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Protasevich’s “confession”: KGB Chairman Andropov’s specialty
Over the past days, Belarus State television has shown several times footage with Belarus oppositionist Roman Protasevich confessing…
Russia’s Tatarstan to have a Muslim holiday in memory of those who fell fighting Ivan the Terrible in 1552
With the weakening and then collapse of the Soviet empire, Tatar activists began to mark the event with…
Moscow moves from justifying GULAG to glorifying it
Indeed, Viktoriya Nikiforova says, Russians should not accept the widespread myths about Stalin’s camps that have been spread…
Belarus crisis may not work out as Putin hopes, Shelin says
Those things are possible but not necessarily going to happen, the Rosbalt commentator says, because there is the…
No, Belarusian dissident Protasevich is not a neo-Nazi. But the Kremlin sure wants you to think so
On May 23, Belarusian journalist and senior advisor to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Franak Viačorka reported that the Lukashenka regime…
Moscow set to add Baltic countries, Poland, Ukraine and Georgia to list of ‘unfriendly countries’
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov says that Russia is quite prepared to extend the list to include…
Chernobyl: a disaster that still overwhelms us all
On my first visit, I was accompanied by the Ukrainian author and doctor Yuriy Shcherbak. In his documentary…
Putin repeating Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tatars in slow motion
But on this anniversary, the first since the easing of the pandemic, Crimean Tatars both in the homeland…
Putin now says Ukraine is becoming ‘the anti-Russia’
The Kremlin leader added this will require “particular attention” from the Russian authorities because it involves the security…
Not USSR collapse but Bolshevik coup ‘20th century’s greatest geopolitical disaster’
[boxright] Demise of USSR might have been delayed but not prevented by Bolshevik-style bloodshed, Milyuk says [/boxright] That…
Putin failed to achieve his 3 goals in Ukraine because he’s not ready to launch a major war, Polish analyst says
In 2014, Putin used stealth to advance Russian forces toward and into Ukrainian territory; but this time, the…
Threat of major Russian military operation against Ukraine and West hasn’t disappeared, Felgengauer says
In an interview taken by Rosbalt journalist Aleksandr Zhelenin, the independent Moscow military analyst says that not only…
Epiphanius reminds that all Orthodox parishes in Ukraine belong to the Ukrainian church
Over the last 18 months, the number of Orthodox parishes in Ukraine which have voted to change their…
Russia closing off more of Black Sea even as it pulls its land forces back from Ukrainian border
Russia may be extending its control over the Black Sea at the very moment Moscow is being praised…
Kremlin knew Chornobyl was an accident waiting to happen 3 years before 1986 disaster
The Soviet government knew that the Chornobyl atomic power plant was an accident waiting to happen at least…
Four lessons learned from Russia’s Ukraine buildup
The world breathed a sigh of relief as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia would pullback…
Deconstructing Putin: it is time the West learned to be bold
A state in decline is a dangerous thing. An autocrat in decline is even more so. Putin’s provocations…
Putin’s aggression against Ukraine part of broader effort to destroy international rules of the game and force West to recognize his right to do so, Skobov says
But a consideration of them collectively shows that what Putin is about is not just subordinating Ukraine to…
Russia violating international law by closing Kerch Straits to naval vessels until October, Kyiv says
The international community has focused on Russia’s buildup of forces on territory adjoining Ukraine, concerned that such a…