Seizing Ukrainian water for Russian-occupied Crimea #1 task for Putin, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin has long made clear that he doesn’t believe that Ukraine has a right to exist as…
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Putin regime “on the road to committing suicide,” Piontkovsky says
Read also: Transfer of Russian military units towards Ukraine’s border to be finished by end of April, –…
Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov says
He’s going to act from the position of strength, which involves the use of sanctions and pressure on…
Kremlin behaving toward Ukraine now the way it did toward Georgia before 2008 invasion, Portnikov says
Moscow’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine and its dislocation of troops near the Ukrainian border echo the propaganda it…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Invading Ukraine now could spark protests that would threaten Putin regime, Russian commentator says
The Rosbalt commentator says that given the uncertainties of any such conflict, no one in the Russian leadership can…
CIS no longer expecting Ukraine to return, ‘Kommersant’ says
Ukraine’s slow-motion exit from the Commonwealth of Independent States has led some in Moscow to think it might…
Moscow will be ready for a war against Ukraine ‘in a month,’ Felgenhauer says
With the turn of the calendar and increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West,…
Putin’s “Trojan horse” in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorialization
The Russian project is indeed a “Trojan horse”, as Yost Zissels, a Ukrainian dissident of Jewish origin and…
“World will see a free Ichkeria and a free Tatarstan,” secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council says
These efforts appeared to peak in 2018 and 2019 when the Verkhovna Rada discussed and then passed a…
Putin claims right to territories of former Soviet republics
Speaking to a meeting on the seventh anniversary of his Anschluss of Crimea, Vladimir Putin said that the…
A Ukrainian moment on the eve of the European Council meeting
Since Russia began its military aggression against Ukraine in 2014, with the significant exception of Germany’s highly controversial wavering…
Kremlin simultaneously seeking to destroy republics and nations on which they rest, Shro says
In a Guildhall commentary, he suggests that these two processes, in turn, are connected with “the strengthening of…
Facts & figures in occupied Donbas. Is reintegration a realistic prospect?
Contents Reliable statistics in the occupied territories?Adaptive sociological survey: how many people reside in ORDLO?Stats concerning illegal armed…
Catalonian portal highlights Udmurt efforts to preserve that nation and its language
Alex Bustos, a Catalan journalist who has made a visit to Russia, points out that “in the very…
Discussion about Russia having more political prisoners than USSR misleading | Letters
Regarding your post Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976. I greatly respect Paul…
Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976
Two years ago, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s Russia had more political prisoners than…
Demise of USSR might have been delayed but not prevented by Bolshevik-style bloodshed, Milyuk says
But they ignore the reality that centrifugal forces were already so great, the leader of the Other Russia…
Water shortages in occupied Crimea now so great Moscow likely to step up pressure on Kyiv, Kazarin says
Read also: Russian-occupied Crimea running out of water despite snowy weather – with Moscow still searching for way…
PACE’s Russian restoration is a disconnect between Europe’s East and West
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe…