Russia determined to expand influence over former Soviet colonies
The overall picture for Russia in autumn 2016 in regard to some of its former European colonies that…
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Kremlin’s losing battle: Next stage of disintegration of Soviet space
Violence in Kazakhstan and Armenia are the clearest sign yet that the post-Soviet space is entering into its…
‘What do French prostitutes, Kremlin media and Duma deputies have in common?’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Feudal stability’ in post-Soviet States points to collapse and chaos ahead, Portnikov says
The situations of Russia and most post-Soviet states “in a surprising way” recall the late Brezhnev period in…
Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…
Nagorno-Karabakh: Who is to blame and who benefits?
For several days now the media has been discussing the unprecedented renewal of hostilities of the Nagorno-Karabakh. Not…
Only beneficiary of Karabakh fighting is Putin, Piontkovsky says
Vladimir Putin is the only beneficiary of the renewed fighting in Karabakh, Andrey Piontkovsky says; and to the…
‘Russia has de facto occupied Armenia,’ Yerevan expert says
Moscow has taken control of Armenia’s economy and restricted its domestic and foreign policy options to the point…
Post-Soviet states entered second anti-communist revolutionary period, Shmelyev says
The post-Soviet world is entering its own version of 1968, Aleksandr Shmelyev says, “and everything taking place in…
Putin’s pursuit of ‘Russian world’ is destroying it
Vladimir Putin has made the Russian language a key element in his definition of “the Russian world” he wants…
Putin and His Entourage Can’t Imagine People Can Protest on Their Own
Vladimir Putin and his fellow siloviki are again showing, in the case of Armenia as they have in…
If Moscow fails to understand that Yerevan is not a Maidan, that alone could make it one, Markedonov says
Many Russian analysts are hurrying to suggest that this week’s protests in Yerevan and their suppression by the…
Russians equated Ukraine with the US
Together with the United States, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Ukraine was considered a country "most unfriendly to Russia"…
Moscow agrees to try Gyumri killer in Armenia but in a Russian court
Fearful that Armenian anger could lead to a break with Moscow or even spark an orange-style revolution in…
Gyumri events in Armenia could spark a new war over Karabakh
The murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri by a Russian soldier and the failure of Yerevan to…
Moscow’s neo-imperialism seen sparking more Maidans in post-Soviet states
The anger Armenians are displaying at Moscow’s protection of a soldier who killed a family of Armenians and…