Ideological gulf between Russia and the West far broader than during the Cold War, Skobov says
It is impossible to imagine that Soviet leaders would ever have used the language the Putin regime is…
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What Russians think about Russia’s war in Ukraine: video
Here is what an elderly man told Current Time: “Well, my opinion is that [Putin] did the right…
10 steps to knock down Russia in the energy sector
Energy is one of the hardest sectors to sanction. On the one hand, Russia is heavily dependent on…
Moscow issues slide show for Russian schools to teach pupils to hate Ukraine
Given the viciousness of Russian state propaganda about Ukraine, it is no surprise that this would gradually affect…
Putin’s war in Ukraine jeopardizes Russia’s expansive goals in the Arctic
In small ways and large, Vladimir Putin’s recent escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine has “put in…
Nearly 60% of Russians support Putin’s war against Ukraine
The survey, titled “Special military operation in Ukraine: the attitude of the Russians,” was conducted 26-28 February 2022,…
Many non-Russians inside Russia oppose Putin’s war; some see end of empire approaching
The divide between those in the Russian Federation who support Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and those who oppose…
Russian opposition figures ask to exclude Russia from INTERPOL
Open letter to Interpol Commission We the undersigned are deeply concerned by the invasion of the Russian Federation…
Moscow worried about loss of titanium ore supplies from Ukraine
There is no question that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine primarily for political and geopolitical reasons. But there were…
Ukraine believes Russia’s UN, UNSC membership illegitimate
Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on 24 February almost immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Serhiy…
For human rights, 2021 ‘worst year in history of post-Soviet Russia,’ Davidis says
Sergey Davidis, a specialist on political prisoners at the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, says that 2021…
Germany exports dual-use products to Russia despite EU sanctions, beefing up Russian military
German companies continued supplying large volumes of the so-called dual-use goods to Russian Federation even after Russia’s annexation…
Moscow moves up plan to finally scrap Soviet-era missiles
Thirty years after the end of the USSR, the Russian defense ministry has announced that it will begin…
![Vladimir Putin's wrestling coach, the person who reportedly helped him get admitted to the Leningrad State University using his connections, was one of the city's top criminals, had served 20 years in prison, and died in a gang battle at 57. Putin admiringly wrote about him in his memoirs called "From the First Person" without using the coach's surname or mentioning his criminal links (for obvious reasons). As the engraving on his grave stone states, the coach Leonid Ionovich Usvyatsov composed the epitaphs himself. [Translator: Please note that in the original Russian the epitaphs crudely rhyme, but the translation did not attempt to reproduce rhyming prioritizing accuracy instead.] The epitaph on the front panel says: "A grave and on the grave there is an epitaph: 'I am dead, but mafia is immortal.'" The back panel is engraved with the following epitaphs: "Hooray! I finally died!!! All of my life I worked for broads like a slave. Now I won't spend a kopeck on this liver sausage anymore." "I gave her my two final bangs and then was carried away on a hearse." "Let's drink to us all, because the curtain will soon fall." (Image: openrussia.org)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/4bbcb9a683811.gif)
Fusion of state and criminal world in Russia even more dangerous than absence of democracy, Pastukhov says
Russia has only rarely been a democracy and certainly is not one now, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but the…
Moscow’s continuing lies about Katyn ‘analogous to Holocaust denials,’ Romanov says
In December last year, an all-Russian television channel owned by Gazprom Media showed a four-part series on the…
Opposition to QR Codes in Russia far broader and more political than to vaccines, Kagarlitsky says
Russian opposition to the recent introduction of personal QR codes to identify individuals, control their movement and check…
Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
“Nobody asked us” – Russian intellectuals rebuke Putin’s policy of war against Ukraine
On 30 January 2022, the Russian website Echo of Moscow published an open letter from the Russian Congress…
30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…
Moscow set to claim even more of Arctic on basis of research by Russian Navy
Research by Russian naval vessels will allow Moscow to claim even more of the Arctic Ocean as extending…
