Russia’s creeping annexation of Belarus ‘already taking place,’ Juknevičienė says
Most people see annexation as something that occurs once and for all at a particular time; but in…
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West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed says
The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Secretly-prepared constitutional changes will open way to Anschluss of Belarus by Putin, Matskevich says
Vladimir Matskevich, a leading Belarusian thinker and sociologist, says that the Belarusian people must demand the convention of…
Do Ukrainians actually believe life was better in the Soviet Union than in France and Germany?
Maybe we need to be more honest about these election results? Do Lviv residents really support corruption, general…
Moscow close to UN recognition that its continental shelf extends far into the Arctic
After almost 20 years of Russian lobbying, a subgroup of the UN Commission on the Limits of the…
Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
Praise for Ukraine’s democracy after first round of elections
On March 31 Ukraine delivered what democracies dream of, a hotly contested but free and fair presidential election.…
It’s not just Babich – Russian embassy in Minsk is a subversive organization
Belarusian media have focused on the ways in which Moscow’s ambassador in Minsk, Mikhail Babich, has behaved in…
Comedian to face incumbent President in run-off and other takeaways of Ukrainian elections
Here is my subjective opinion on four key points the first round showed: Contents 1. TV promotion works2.…
Ukrainians once again are voting for someone they hope has a magic wand, Portnikov says
No one should have been surprised that Volodymyr Zelenskyy ran far ahead of all other candidates in the…
Russian economy isn’t in crisis: it is in a depression, Shein says
Two out of three Russians (68 percent) tell the Public Opinion Foundation that they believe that their country…
Kyiv says 506 parishes have shifted from Moscow Church; Moscow claims only 61 have
Since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was formed and granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
Moscow hopes to ‘Belarusianize’ Ukraine by dangling possibility of lower gas prices, Portnikov says
In January 1992, Moscow told Estonia that henceforth, the Baltic nation would have to pay Russia world prices…
Moscow propaganda tries to hide that Kremlin interests and Russia’s are antithetical, Eidman says
Russian sociologist Igor Eidman has posted the second in a promised series of articles exposing the falsehoods contained…
Putin winning support from far right as well as far left with custom-targeted propaganda, Eidman says
In Soviet times, Moscow was able to attract support from the far left in other countries; but under…
Trump’s Golan Heights decision unsettles post-Soviet space
US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a region Israeli forces seized…
Three reasons why a comedian should not be president of Ukraine
I am heartened and saddened by Ukrainian opinion polls. Saddened because Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in first place and…
Russian secret police declassify century-old documents but then block access to them
In a move that perfectly embodies the “hybrid” way the Putin regime does things, the FSB has announced…