Ukrainian Orthodox Church head says Russian Orthodox Church will remain in Ukraine as many want it and he’s not against that
To hear Moscow propagandists talk, you would think that the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in combination…
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Are the Uniates about to make common cause with newly autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox?
With the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) receiving the tomos of autocephaly from the Universal Patriarch Bartholomew, the…
2019 will be ‘a year without Crimea” for Putin, Portnikov says
The coming year, Vitaly Portnikov says, will be another “year without Crimea” for Vladimir Putin, one where he…
Russia’s cap of the Monomakh came not from Constantinople but from Khan Uzbek, Tashkent historian says
The cap of the Monomakh, a symbol for many Russians of Muscovy’s links to Constantinople and thus fundamental…
Because of Putin, 2019 will be a repeat of 1939, Muzhdabayev says
No one should be confused by the calendar, Crimean Tatar commentator Ayder Muzhdabayev says. The coming year will…
Belarus already under Russian troll attack designed to give Moscow a base for further aggression
Belarus meets all three requirements as a target for a hybrid war and then use it as a…
Crimean Tatars see Budapest Memorandum as key to recovery of their homeland
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatars, says that the goal of his nation is “the establishment…
Ever more Russians want to go ‘back to the USSR’ but ever fewer Ukrainians do
Polls show that ever more Russians want to go “back to the USSR” but this nostalgia is not…
Putin regime – West’s ‘existential’ enemy and West must stop his aggression in Ukraine by force, Skobov says
The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international…
Moscow media outlets today with disturbing unanimity say Ukraine readying chemical weapons attack against Donbas
On Western Christmas when too few outside of Moscow and Kyiv are paying close attention, the Moscow media…
Both Russia and Ukraine ready for new expansion of war, Felgenhauer says
If Moscow wants to expand its aggression in Ukraine, it will easily find a “formal” justification for this…
Moscow commentator: ‘Era of Russian-American nuclear parity rapidly coming to an end’ and not in Russia’s favor
Despite all of Vladimir Putin’s talk about super weapons that no opponent can stop, the aging of Soviet-era…
Moscow commentator: ‘Trump’s policy completely corresponds to Russia’s national interests’
Russian commentators are celebrating Donald Trump’s decision to pull American forces from Syria, with some calling it the…
Ukrainian autocephaly destroys ideological foundation of Russian empire, Espresso says
Many are saying Ukraine’s receipt of autocephaly from the Universal Patriarch is for Russia an act equivalent to…
Russia’s Cossacks form their own autocephalous church, one in which they won’t be ‘slaves of God’
In what may become one of the most significant echoes of Ukrainian autocephaly in Russia, the All-Cossack Social…
Hollow ‘paper divisions’ are ever larger portion of Russian army, Golts says
By the end of next year, Moscow will have formed 40 new brigades and divisions while cutting the…
‘Putin’s Ribbentrop’ emphasizes Moscow still wants all of Ukraine, Portnikov says
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow will not recognize the Donbas “republics” because to do so would…
When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland
Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…
‘A church without Putin, without Kirill, and without prayers for the aggressor’
The unification council of the Ukrainian Orthodox has ended with the election of a new metropolitan and promises…
Putin’s ‘Russian world’ continues to contract
Despite Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification program at home and his promotion of the Russian language abroad, the Kremlin…