Russia and West defeated communism in 1991 but not Russian imperialism, Shenderovich says
In 1991, Russian liberals successfully defeated communism, but they failed to understand that they needed to defeat a…
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Ukrainian suggestion that Russia should be called Muscovy infuriates Russians
Even though Russian officials and commentators have felt free to call Ukraine and Ukrainians other names, the suggestion…
Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…
Putin’s rise had 13 ‘fathers’ and 12 serious opponents, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin and the Russian political system known as Putinism did not emerge out of nowhere, Andrey Illarionov…
Japanese expert: Ethnic Ukrainians form 60% of Northern Territories’ (Kuriles’) population
Yoshihiko Okabe, an expert on Russia at the University of Kobe in Japan, says that “about 60 percent…
Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014
Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey…
Being a historian an increasingly dangerous profession in Russia, Agora study says
For more than a century, Russia has been described as a country with an unpredictable past. The authorities…
Like Soviet one, Putin system can’t be reformed, only destroyed and replaced, Inozemtsev says
One of the many debates that riled Western studies of the Soviet Union concerned whether that system could…
Kremlin, worried about a popular explosion, taking steps to suppress it before it begins
Vladimir Putin is not acting with the self-confidence one would expect of someone who has just won re-election with…
Broad coalition of non-Russians launch Internet petition drive against Putin’s language policies
Representatives of a significant cross-section of non-Russian nations now within the borders of the Russian Federation have launched…
Putin listening to both “party of war” and “party of peace” within his regime, Felgenhauer says
Vladimir Putin is listening both to “a peace party” within his administration and “a war party,” responding positively…
Putin says Russia ‘ruled by God’ and presents Russians as victims of Holocaust
Many of Vladimir Putin’s supporters only ten days ago were expressing concern that he had not launched his…
Putin’s address reflects his and Russia’s ‘total weakness,’ Pavlovsky says
Although intended to project force and dynamism, Gleb Pavlovsky says, Vladimir Putin’s address to the Russian Federal Assembly…
Putin says communism is like Christianity and Lenin’s body a saint’s relic
For a documentary film on the Valaam monastery, Vladimir Putin says that communism at the ideological level is…
Putin becoming ‘a decorative dictator,’ Novoprudsky says
“The chief paradox” of the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, Semyon Novoprudsky says, is that “everyone knows who…
As in Soviet times, Kremlin again misusing psychiatry against its political opponents, Svetova says
One of the most horrific aspects of the last years of the Soviet Union was the abuse of…
10 things about what the Kremlin is calling an “election”
Aleksey Shaburov, a Yekaterinburg commentator, says that people are making a mistake treating the March 2018 voting as…
Russia, not China, violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Nemets says
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at China for violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Aleksandr Nemets…
‘Ukrainian-Language Samizdat Appears in Russia-Occupied Crimea’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Top Moscow bank to stop servicing sanctioned Russian defense firms
Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia's seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will…