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Putin’s ‘Russian world’ rapidly contracting in Ukraine and elsewhere, Sokolov says
The reason that the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate are so alarmed by the prospect of an independent…
Moscow sanctions Ukrainian parliamentarian who called for defense of rights of Middle Volga nations
Two weeks ago, Hanna Hopko, the chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s foreign affairs committee, called on the…
More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers
Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…
Analysts: Attack on FSB HQ in Arkhangelsk a ‘black swan’ threat to Putin regime
At first glance, the attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk appears to be but one of a…
Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it
If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only…
GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow
Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…
Russia hasn’t formed a modern civic nation but rather an imperial one, Portnikov says
There are three reasons why the Russian Federation is unlikely to fall apart in the near future, Ukrainian…
Russia to buy frigates from China
In a remarkable turnabout, Moscow is going to purchase specially modified naval frigates from Beijing, the result of…
‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Today as they have done every August 30, the International Day for Remembering Those Who Have Disappeared, Crimean…
Kyiv moves to restore pre-Soviet Ukrainian spellings, infuriating Moscow
Maksym Strikha, the head of the Ukrainian National Commission o Morphology, yesterday announced the introduction of new rules…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…
Could Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks on Belarusian border become ‘the little green men’ in Belarus?
As relations between Moscow and Minsk deteriorate, the Russian government has moved units of Vladimir Putin’s pseudo-Cossacks into…
Putin’s Russia has a social pyramid like the oriental despotism it is, Eidman says
Russia under Vladimir Putin resembles an oriental despotism in that all property belongs to the ruler and all…
‘This isn’t corruption, Sir; this is kleptocracy’ – why Moscow is so angry at Yerevan
In 1789, the Duke of Liancourt told Louis XVI that what the French king faced was “not a…
Who’s most at risk of assassination by Putin’s siloviki? Kirillova provides a typology
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of…
Moscow celebrates another disgraceful American concession after Helsinki
Major acts of betrayal like selling out Ukraine or calling into question American responsibilities to its NATO allies…
To rule Russia, Putin doesn’t need mass murders: he has TV, Khersonsky says
There are as yet no mass repressions in Russia, but there is “simply no need for them,” Ukrainian…
Russia lacks a state in the normal sense, Polikovsky and Oreshkin say
Russia has never had a state in the normal sense of the term and does not have one…
Three pieces of very bad economic news for Putin
Vladimir Putin may not have been able to use the 2018 FIFA World Cup to distract Russians sufficiently…