Youth gangs increasingly terrorizing Russian regions
Despite the Putin regime’s massive police presence – Russia now has more police per capita than any other…
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Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says
The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s leading opposition figures, is coming to a…
New Duma law would allow Russians to use any force to defend their lives and property
A group of Russian State Duma deputies, working together with experts from the Interior Ministry and the Russian Guard,…
Putin regime now entering its fifth and final phase, Yakovenko says
Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the…
Is Moscow about to transform occupied Crimea into an Islamist enclave?
Even as the Russian occupation forces do everything they can to repress the Crimean Tatars, the most consistent…
Banditry from Russia-occupied Donbas rapidly spreading back across Russia, Babchenko says
Russia is rapidly descending into “a swamp of illegality and unconstrained banditry” in large measure because those features…
‘With Crimea, we got Poklonskaya,’ some Russians say in disgust
Some Russians recognize that Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea was simply wrong, others are upset that absorbing the Ukrainian…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…
Putin’s ‘secret weapon’ against the West – massive illegal cash hordes in foreign countries
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly…
The Crimean Anschluss at three: ‘A jubilee of stupidity and criminality’
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, said more than she perhaps intended when she declared that the…
Criminal world customs increasingly inform Moscow’s actions, Yakovenko says
Every fourth adult male in Russia has spent some time in prison, Igor Yakovenko says; and in some…
Moscow archpriest calls for new death squads to destroy ‘traitor-emigres’
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called…
Putin’s ‘real but Pyrrhic victory’: infecting the world with distrust and division
Vladimir Putin has achieved a real but Pyrrhic victory with his policy of hybridity: domestically – by transforming…
Nemtsov and Moscow’s Bloody List
February 27 will mark exactly six months since the death of my close friend and colleague, Russian and…
List of Kremlin-linked deaths since Nemtsov’s murder continues to lengthen
Today, many people around the world will be commemorating the second anniversary of the murder of opposition Russian…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Why the arrest of Firtash may mean the death of the Russian mafia
The arrest of Dmytro Firtash may be the beginning of the end of the dangerous international mafia whose…
‘Russian spies interfered with Nobel Committee to prevent Poroshenko Peace Prize’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Kompromat’ is powerful regardless of whether it is true, Portnikov says
The Bolsheviks liked to say that Marxism-Leninism was powerful because it was true; but Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov…
Putin conducts his foreign policy like a special op, Melnikov says
Vladimir Putin is conducting his foreign policy like the special op of an intelligence service, reflecting both his…