To help Belarus, recognize Tsikhanouskaya as the legitimate president-elect
The response of the international community to the state violence that we are currently witnessing in Belarus, will…
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Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says
Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…
Marking Day of the Circassian Flag online – a national action the pandemic couldn’t stop
For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian…
Maidan massacre probe to face even more threats in 2020
On 22 January film director and ex-political prisoner Oleg Sentsov commented on the news that runaway president Viktor…
When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland
Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…
Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has faced before, Yakovenko says
Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years…
Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947
Seventy-one years ago this week, Stalin deported tens of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan, an action…
US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people
Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…
How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…
Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says
A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…
Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…
Russia’s penal reforms point to return of ‘renewed’ GULAG, Novaya Gazeta says
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system…
Russia’s act of genocide against Circassians lasted more than 150 years, Chukhua says
Today, Circassians and their supporters mark the 153rd anniversary of the day Russian forces expelled Circassian nation from…
Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says
The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting…
‘Putin’s GULAG more horrible than Stalin’s,’ researchers say
Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who…
Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great…
Putin’s ‘achievement’ in Syria: now Russians the target for Muslim anger, Portnikov says
The murder of the Russian ambassador to Türkiye is the first victim of the hatred of Russia and…
Putin’s Syrian campaign a truly ‘Orwellian one,’ Kalashnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in Syria, Moscow commentator Maxim Kalashnikov says, is “Orwellian in the purest way, completely…
Moscow analyst: Britain’s support for Poland, not Molotov-Ribbentrop, caused WW2, and its backing of Ukraine could trigger WW3
Moscow analyst Yury Mukhin offers an historical analogy which says far more than he intends. In a new…
It’s long past time to identify and shame Holodomor deniers
One of the positive developments of recent decades has been the willingness of historians and those concerned with…