Putin thinks he is restoring the Soviet empire; in fact, he is recreating the conditions that led to its demise
Vladimir Putin may think he is restoring the Soviet empire; but in fact, he is willy-nilly recreating the…
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1991 disintegration of the USSR
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Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991
For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed…
In new film, Putin promises ‘no mercy’ to those who ‘cooperated with West’ in destruction of USSR, Kolerov says
In a new documentary film about Russia in the 1990s presented by the Russian state television, Vladimir Putin…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Not USSR collapse but Bolshevik coup ‘20th century’s greatest geopolitical disaster’
[boxright] Demise of USSR might have been delayed but not prevented by Bolshevik-style bloodshed, Milyuk says [/boxright] That…
CIS no longer expecting Ukraine to return, ‘Kommersant’ says
Ukraine’s slow-motion exit from the Commonwealth of Independent States has led some in Moscow to think it might…
Qarabagh war outcome opens way for Putin to create ‘post-Soviet space 2.0,’ Dubnov says
The most important outcome of the Qarabagh war was not the defeat of Armenia, the victory of Azerbaijan…
Constitutions didn’t save USSR and won’t by themselves save Russia, Vanin says
Facing a situation in which there is growing popular discontent and increasing dysfunction in institutions, Vladimir Putin has…
Putin’s talk about Russian lands in neighboring countries didn’t come out of nowhere
Most commentaries reacted to Putin’s words either with enthusiasm (some Russian imperialists), horror (almost everyone else in Russia…
Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says
Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…
‘The West won’t allow the Russian Federation to disintegrate,’ Kashapov says
Rafis Kashapov, the deputy prime minister of the Tatarstan government in exile, a member of the presidium of…
Portnikov: A cup that cracked
The Church of Greece became the first after the Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly. At…
Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…
Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died
On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and…
The West’s failure in 1991 must not be repeated now
Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of…
The Russian Federation will disintegrate but not ‘just like the Soviet Union did’
Twenty-seven years ago on December 8, 1991, the presidents of the RSFSR, the Belarusian SSR and the Ukrainian…
Moscow paper puts up and takes down article saying disintegration of Russia is ‘inevitable’
There are some things no one in Russia must say or even think. Perhaps the most important of…
For Putin, Ukrainian autocephaly is as bad for Russia as USSR’s disintegration and something he won’t tolerate, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin views autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox as having an equally fateful and negative impact on Russia…
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…