The wild decade: how the 1990s laid the foundations for Vladimir Putin’s Russia
Although the decade still divides public opinion, what’s not in doubt is that it was a dangerous and exciting period. The ambiguity of…
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Ukrainians fear Moscow may use their co-ethnics in Russia in provocation to restart war
Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a…
(No) right to a fair trial, or a manual to Russia’s conveyor of repressions in Crimea
Seven years ago, Russian Special Operations Forces with no badges yet equipped with Russian weapons took over a…
Under Biden, sanctions against Russia will be more consistent and stable, their “architect” says
In this interview with Valentyna Samar, editor-in-chief of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, and Julia Kazdobina, head of…
Amidst seemingly easing tensions, Putin leaves much unsaid in speech to parliament
The first glazed-over item on this list is the sharp escalation of the Ukraine crisis caused by the…
Moscow pushing even more expansive claims on Arctic
On March 31, the Russian government filed two new submissions to the UN body overseeing sea borders regarding…
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 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…
Sentenced to 24 years by Russian propaganda: report exposes Kremlin disinformation in Markiv case
Information has become central to the Ukraine crisis, with some journalists and experts referring to an information war…
“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…
Two words that shook Putin’s regime
The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last…
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…
St. Petersburg police instructed to “strangle Russophobia” with Nazi poster ripoff
A poster about "anti-Russian research structures" featuring a version of a Nazi propaganda picture was hung in St.…
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…
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…
Moscow’s plans for new kind of aircraft carrier unlikely to be realized
In late February, TASS reported that Russian designers have come up with “a new class of ship.” The…
Russian forces in Qarabagh violating their rules of engagement, Baku says
In yet another indication that the November 10 declaration was not a peace accord and that conflicts over…
Pandemic prompting Russia to reaction, isolation, and decay, Shevtsova says
Because of the pandemic, 2020 was “’the year of the Apocalypse” for both Russia and the West, but…
Like KGB in Soviet times, FSB ‘curators’ assuming expanded role in Russian academia
The special departments in educational institutions that existed in Soviet times and were headed by the KGB were…