Rights advocate forced to use ‘Russian-English samizdat’ to speak truths unwelcome in Russia and the West
Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that…
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Crimea annexation
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Crimea braces for another Russian invasion – ‘commissars from Moscow’
Moscow has disbanded two of the agencies it created to integrate occupied Crimea – the Ministry for Crimean…
Crimean residents find quiet ways to protest Russian occupation and display ties to Ukraine
Despite the repressive measures of the Russian occupiers, Crimeans of all ethnic groups have found various ways to…
Annexations real and imaginary
Seventy-five years ago today, Acting US Secretary of State Sumner Wells declared that the United States would not…
“Friends of Putin” French MPs to visit occupied Crimea
On Wednesday, a group of pro-Putin French parliamentarians will travel to Russia and to Russia-occupied Crimea. Thierry Mariani,…
Crimea memo reveals Moscow’s unease
It turns out that the Russian government is realizing there are pitfalls associated with the annexation of someone…
Another Pastor Niemöller moment passes in Moscow
Perhaps the most searing self-indictment of those who watch the onset of totalitarianism but do not protest because…
Russian occupation pressuring Crimean Tatars by offering aid to other deported peoples
Russian occupation officials are talking with the representatives of the Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Germans, four small nationalities…
Crimea and the Crimean Tatars: Centuries of competing claims and forgotten history
On August 23, 1932, a secret circular for the economic division of the secret police (OGPU) of the…
Russia ‘de-Ukrainizing’ population of Crimea, occupation census shows
The number of people in Crimea identifying as ethnic Ukrainians has fallen by 232,000 between the 2001 census…
Putin conducting ‘hybrid genocide’ against Crimean Tatars, Muzhdabayev says
Moscow officials are asserting and some in the West are accepting the notion that local officials in Crimea…
Russians refuse to note Putin is treating Crimean Tatars the same way Hitler did
For more than a year, Russians have failed to take note of and react to the fact that…
Russia’s closing of Crimean Tatar media backfires on Moscow
No Crimean Tatar media outlet could ever do as much harm to Russia’s reputation and its ability to…
Signing off for now, Crimean Tatar broadcaster says ‘We survived Stalin; we’ll survive Putin’
Because the Russian occupation authorities have refused to register it, the Crimean Tatar television channel ATR ended its…
Russian occupiers to close all but one Crimean Tatar media outlet as of tonight
“At the stroke of midnight” today, Denis Krosheyev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, says,…
For Putin, Russia’s isolation is a strategy not a misfortune
Most analysts have suggested that sanctions and international isolation were a cost Vladimir Putin was willing to pay…
Russians repress Ukrainians in Far East and threaten to deport Crimean Tatars there
Ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, the descendants of Ukrainians who moved there voluntarily in late tsarist…
Kyiv commentator: Putin’s Crimean Anschluss is leading to Russia’s suicide
When Vladimir Putin decided a year ago to annex Crimea, he and his supporters expected that this would…
Russian economist: Putin’s admission on Crimea gives West ‘unique’ chance to force change
Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that he personally decided upon and conducted a special operation to seize Crimea “opens a…
Georgian diplomat: What stopped Putin in Georgia in 2008 won’t stop him in Ukraine
“Ukraine is where Georgia was six years ago, but Russia has been transformed into a second North Korea,”…