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“Do Svidaniya” to Russo-centrism: Western schools start decolonizing Eastern Europe studies
A Russo-centric approach towards Eastern European and Slavonic studies and related fields has long reigned supreme in Western…
Russia’s many non-Russian nations no longer have any authors under 35 writing in their languages – Tatar scholar
A recently held roundtable on the census in the Tatarstan capital that attracted experts from across the Russian…
Kremlin has made defending Moscow Patriarchate key part of Russian foreign policy, Russian expert says
The revised Foreign Policy Concept paper the Kremlin released this week has declared that the defense of the…
Moscow demonized Ukrainians exploiting ethnic discord it promoted in Russia, activist from Kamchatka says
The activist from Kamchatka who now lives as a political exile in Norway says that discrimination against national…
Risks from Russia falling apart far less than risks from it remaining in one piece, Russian commentator says
That is a clear mistake, as Prague-based Russian commentator Vitaly Ginzburg observes in a comment on a recent…
Moscow promoting ever more military programs for ever younger school-age groups
In a sign that the Putin regime is preparing for the militarization of Russian society over the long…
Putin’s ‘anti-imperialism’ trope also taken from Nazi playbook, Zizek says
Many in the West believe, as Putin intends them to that his talk about fighting imperialism precludes the…
Mass street protests by themselves won’t bring regime change in Russia, as Belarus and Venezuela showed, Golosov says
The political scientist at St. Petersburg’s European University argues that this is the lesson of the events in…
Putin has deeply embedded cult of death and notion of ‘cleansing apocalypse’ in Russia today, Khapayeva says
They reflect the revival in Russia today of the “simple and barbaric” medieval notion that human life is…
Zelenskyy orders study on extending diplomatic recognition to Chechnya-Ichkeria
Having declared Chechnya-Ichkeria a temporarily occupied land last month and pressed by a petition signed by more than…
Russia tries to use passenger jet engines for its heavy helicopters reliant on Ukrainian engines – Defense24
The Soviet-designed Mil Mi-26 is a twin-engine heavy transport helicopter that entered into service in 1985 in both…
Russia officially moves to a wartime economy
In the eighth month since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and amid open mobilization, President Putin has…
Bashkirs launch armed underground movement against Russia’s war and for national independence
On September 21, when Putin declared his partial mobilization, the anonymous Telegram channel “The Committee of Bashkir Resistance”…
Finland to significantly restrict Russian citizens from entering the country amid Russian mobilization
Finland says it will “significantly restrict” Russian citizens from entering the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced…
Seeking a diplomatic agreement with Putin is amoral, senseless and dangerous, Russian analysts say
Two of Russia’s more thoughtful analysts, Vladislav Inozemtsev and Aleksandr Skobov, argue in separate commentaries that seeking an…
Most Russians increasingly optimistic about what war in Ukraine says about Russia’s future, Levinson says
A new Levada Center survey shows that the percentage of Russians who think the country is on the…
Alleged Russian money launderer extradited from the Netherlands to US
Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, 29, a Russian citizen and an alleged cryptocurrency money launderer was extradited this week from…
For Russians, their war in Ukraine is still ‘a TV war’ not directly involving them, Fedorov says
Today what is happening in Ukraine is for most Russians “’a special operation on television,’” VTsIOM director Valery…
“Russia, a terrorist country ruled by war criminals”: Full text of Russian decolonization conference resolution
We, the representatives of the indigenous peoples and colonized regions of the Russian Federation, acting on the basis…
Is a military coup expected in Russia?
However, an influential group is informally forming in the country that has authority among the “pro-Putin majority” and…