Striking truckers warn Moscow: ‘Shed our blood and there’ll be a revolution’
Even as Moscow continues to ignore or downplay the size of the long-haul truckers’ strike – with Dmitry…
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‘Why should Russian taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?’
Eight days ago, US Secretary of State posed a rhetorical question to his G-7 counterparts, “Why should US…
Concentration camps for gays? Fake news, claims Russian human rights official
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the…
Moscow reacts to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan switching from Cyrillic with hysterics
Russian reaction to the decisions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to move away from the Cyrillic-based scripts Moscow imposed…
‘Young Russians love Putin, state ownership and socialism,’ poll finds
The massive participation of young Russians in the March 26 anti-corruption demonstrations led many Russian and Western analysts…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…
Putin’s pocket parliament just made it easier for him to falsify presidential election
Yesterday, the Russian State Duma approved on first voting amendments to the law governing presidential elections, including one…
After Tillerson visit, Putin orders sweeping arrests of opposition figures
Last night and this morning after the end of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit, Vladimir Putin…
Truckers now on strike in almost every federal subject of Russia
Andrey Bazhutkin, the leader of the united long-haul truckers organization, says that drivers are now on strike “in…
Russians angry at authorities for failing to prevent terrorist attacks, Gorevoy says
Until recently, in the wake of any terrorist attack inside Russia, Russians focused their anger on the terrorists,…
Russian truckers’ strike far larger than it appears, Novaya Gazeta says
The long-haul truckers’ strike is far larger and thus having a much bigger impact on the economy than…
Criminal world customs increasingly inform Moscow’s actions, Yakovenko says
Every fourth adult male in Russia has spent some time in prison, Igor Yakovenko says; and in some…
Russia’s interest in Libya
While US President Donald Trump is doing its best to prove that Russia is going to become a…
Like his ‘hybrid wars,’ Putin’s ‘hybrid repressions’ are all too real, Tuomi says
Some in Russia and in the West appear to think that if one inserts the world “hybrid” in…
Putin conducts his foreign policy like a special op, Melnikov says
Vladimir Putin is conducting his foreign policy like the special op of an intelligence service, reflecting both his…
Ten types of Russian weapons didn’t work well in Syria, the Russian defense minister says
Russian forces demonstrated their prowess in the destruction of the opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad,…
Putin has infected Russia with a disease he can’t cure or control, Yakovenko says
Having illegally annexed Crimea in 2014, Igor Yakovenko says, Vladimir Putin infected Russia with an incurable illness, one…
Trump Revolution: From Russia With Revenge
Last week the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Director Jackson Diehl published an article titled "Putin's hope to ignite Eurasia-style protests in the…
Trump’s Orwellian “rigged” campaign is straight out of Putin’s propaganda playbook
The US 2016 presidential campaign is nothing short of Orwellian. A billionaire real estate mogul who’s lived the…
Anti-Americanism is ‘cult of Putin’s Russia’ with all the consequences thereof, Pastukhov says
“Anti-Americanism,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, “is the Marxism of ‘the Russian spring’ and the religion of the ‘post-modern’ post-communist…