For the chekists, Navalny is the Yeltsin of 1987, Portnikov says
Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the…
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Free Russia Forum outlines what a post-Putin Russia must do to rejoin civilized world
The Free Russia Forum, a group of opposition politicians and analysts, says that a post-Putin Russia can only…
Putin feels a kinship with Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin “defends Ivan the Terrible and Stalin ‘from excessive demonization’ because unconsciously he feels himself” to share…
Eidman: If Kadyrov didn’t exist, Putin would have to create him
Vladimir Putin needs Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov so that “compared to him,” the Kremlin leader will appear “in…
Yakovenko: Putinist fascism – not an ideology but a set of criminal ‘understandings’
Vladimir Putin’s fascism, the first “post-modern” fascism, is able to include under its banner so many radically different…
Pastukhov: Any successor to Putin likely to be a dictator
The current attacks on Alexei Navalny that suggest he will become a dictator if he manages somehow to…
Putin’s Russian world seeks to offer others 12 unattractive values, Sytin says
Aleksandr Sytin was recently on a Moscow television show hosted by Vladimir Solovyev about the values Vladimir Putin’s…
Russian experts: In 20 years, Moscow will have 35 million residents, a third of them Muslims
The population of the Moscow agglomeration by 2035 will reach 35 million, of whom 25 to 30 percent…
How well off is the average Russian, anyway?
In response to a recent article on prospects for the Russian economy (Russia: All Scenarios Are Bad in…
Putin has transformed Russia into a gigantic ‘Island of Dr. Moreau,’ Nemets says
In his 1896 novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells describes how a doctor on a small…
When a Western leader spoke the truth to Putin — and Putin couldn’t take it
Even Western leaders who are distinguished by the boldness of their statements on other issues appear reluctant to…
Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities
Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents,…
A single methane ‘bubble’ explosion from global warming could cut Russia off from 89% of its natural gas
Eighty-nine percent of Russia’s natural gas production comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the Russian Far North…
Russia has as many as 5 million homeless, not the 64,000 Rosstat reports
Sergey Mironov, head of the Just Russia Party, says there may be as many as five million homeless…
Global warming already having ‘explosive’ consequences in Russian North
Because permafrost underlies two-thirds of the territory of the Russian Federation and because two-thirds of that is projected…
Putin’s greatest fear is the FSB refusing to fire on the Russian people, Golts says
Aleksandr Golts, a Moscow specialist on military affairs and the deputy chief editor of Yezhednevny zhurnal, says that…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator.…
Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change
Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower…
Political murders will continue in Russia because they are useful to Putin, Feygin says
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to…
Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions
Facing ever greater difficulty in raising money in the West because of sanctions and calls by its own…