Putting Kyiv’s decision on Russian social media in context
Moscow and Western officials and commentators have sharply criticized Kyiv’s decision to block access to Russian social media,…
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Putin doesn’t want Russians to continue focusing on Crimea, Goryunova says
Vladimir Putin, who exploited Russian euphoria over the Anschluss of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea three years ago…
Ukrainian legislation about religion will finalize divorce between Kyiv and Moscow
Two pieces of draft legislation about religious organizations in Ukraine scheduled to be taken up by the Verkhovna…
Moscow planning to send 60,000 Muslim troops to Syria, Saudi newspaper says
Citing unnamed “informed sources,” a Saudi newspaper says that “Russia has prepared approximately 60,000” predominantly Sunni Muslim soldiers…
Why Putin can’t allow Ukraine to succeed and why the West must make sure it does
In the course of a wide-ranging discussion in advance of the release of his new book on Russia…
No one denies Soviet Army defeated Hitler but Russians won’t admit it occupied those it liberated, Tatyana Ross says
For Russians, Victory Day is an ever more important date; but they act as if May 9 was…
Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…
Putin’s failure to attract CIS leaders to Victory parade marks shift from post-Soviet era to Russian world, Dubnov says
Only one leader of another former Soviet republic, Moldova’s Igor Dodon, joined Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s Victory Day…
To annex Donbas, Moscow would have to destabilize Ukraine by attacking elsewhere, experts say
Just as Moscow opened the way to its annexation of Crimea by undermining Ukrainian positions in the Donbas,…
Kuban might pursue independence but won’t become part of Ukraine, Russians say
Reacting to recent statements by Kyiv officials about portions of Russia being historically Ukrainian, Russian commentators say that…
The real clash of civilizations: Last Lenin comes down in Kyiv as Stalin cult rises in Moscow
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation…
‘Trump is again OURS,’ Moscow commentators say
There has been yet another mood swing in Moscow about Donald Trump. After his election, Russian officials and…
Putin moving sector by sector to impose a state of emergency on Russia, Shelin says
In ever more sectors, Vladimir Putin has dropped all pretense that he is acting with the support of…
‘3 million people fled from Russia-occupied Donbas’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia’s truckers win biggest victory yet: Daghestan to press for repeal of Plato System
Parliamentarians of the North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan, which has been the center of the long-haul truckers strike,…
Three years after sham referendums in Donbas, no Russian Spring
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk…
Russia’s ideology is ‘traditional great powerness cleansed of communism,’ Pavlova says
Both supporters and critics of the Putin regime often say his regime lacks an ideology – Aleksandr Podrabinek…
Izborsky Club calls for new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to re-divide Eastern Europe between Moscow and Berlin
The Izborsky Club, a group of Russian nationalist intellectuals that has often been extremely influential in the Kremlin…
New Duma law would allow Russians to use any force to defend their lives and property
A group of Russian State Duma deputies, working together with experts from the Interior Ministry and the Russian Guard,…
Russia’s long-haul trucker strike begins to claim political victims
The long-haul truckers strike in Russia is beginning to have an impact on Russian politics. Those governors who…
