Russian Orthodox Church: Performance of song about nuking US in St. Isaac’s Cathedral ‘in bad taste’
Few stories from Russia in recent times (other than anything connected with Vladimir Putin) have sparked a larger…
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Putin has three goals in playing nuclear card against West now, Kirillova says
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what…
Kirillova: Sochi Games scandal revealed what Putin was like even before Crimea
Five years ago this weekend, the Sochi Olympiad ended with many Russians convinced that it showed Russia had…
‘Russia’s dependency on China growing with each passing day,’ Felgenhauer says
Three days ago, Pavel Felgenhauer published in Moscow’s Novaya gazeta an article headlined “The Dependence of Russia on…
Ukraine has separated from Russia, but Russia hasn’t from Ukraine, Shelin says
“The victory of the Kyiv revolution in February 2014 marked the final divorce of Ukraine and Russia and…
Putin takes a page from North Korea’s playbook against Trump, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s sabre rattling in his presidential address was intended to tempt Donald Trump into acting he has…
Moscow church has already lost 2.5% of its parishes in Ukraine in month since autocephaly
In the month since Ukraine received autocephaly, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has seen more…
Russian businessman: 10 rules for foreigners to keep their integrity and property while working in Russia
Following the arrest of Michael Calvey, the senior partner at Baring Vostok Capital, ever more people are asking…
Russian war with Ukraine a clash of civilizations, Ikhlov says
Russian aggression in Ukraine which is seeking to rejoin Europe is a clash of civilizations that has its…
Despite official harassment, OCU’s only church in Russia holds on
Moves by the Russian occupation forces in Crimea to close down or transfer of all Ukrainian Orthodox Churches…
Putinism is a genuinely new threat and not simply a revival of earlier ones, Yakovenko says
Putinism represents a new threat to the world, one very different in fundamental ways from those of earlier…
In post-Soviet countries, ethnic Russians are assimilating to titular nationalities, Kozlov says
Something unprecedented is happening to ethnic Russians in many post-Soviet states, Vladimir Kozlov of Moscow’s Higher School of…
Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says
Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in…
New poll results suggest where Russia and Ukraine are heading
Three poll results announced yesterday, two in Russia and one in Ukraine, merit particular notice because they suggest…
Moscow hides its effort to weaken larger non-Russian nations by playing up its support for smaller ones
Everyone who lived through the end of the Gorbachev era will remember that the Soviet president sought to…
Putin’s war in Ukraine looks very different in Pskov than it does in Moscow, new book shows
A new book, entitled Russia and Ukraine. Days of Eclipse, which collects articles about Putin’s war in Ukraine…
Orthodox Church of Ukraine won’t be a state church, Poroshenko says
On the day of the enthronement of the metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), President Petro…
Majority of Orthodox believers in Ukraine identify with Ukrainian church, new poll shows
A new poll conducted by the SOCIS Center, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre…
New Siberian website provides data on Russification of non-Russians and repression of Russians
At a time when most Russian sites are devoted to promoting an entirely positive image of the Russian…
Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church of Ukraine are now legal synonyms
Yesterday, the Ukrainian justice ministry officially registered the religious organization, “the Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church…