Putin’s language doesn’t threaten Russia’s neighbors but does threaten Russia, Shchetkina says
The Russian language used by Vladimir Putin -- unlike the language of Pushkin -- “doesn't threaten Russia’s neighbors…
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Russian court orders demolition of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) in Moscow Oblast
The Moscow Regional Court has ruled that the Holy Trinity Church of the Bohorodsk Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Russia’s 2008 “spying scandal” guise for FSB-oligarch takeover of TNK-BP
The famous case of the Zaslavskiy brothers is now eight years old. In 2008-2009, Russia accused Ilya Zaslavskiy, an…
Increased terrorism against Ukraine more likely than a conventional aggression by Moscow, Bezsmertnyi says
Moscow is unlikely to launch a conventional military attack against Ukraine in the near term, according to Roman…
Weapons from Donbas rush back to Russia sparking a rise in violent crime
The black market in Russia for weapons has grown by almost 50 percent since 2012, largely as a…
Putin regime was a criminal one long before Crimea the doping scandal shows
One of the most important consequences of the current doping scandal, Kseniya Kirillova says, is that it undercuts…
Draconian “anti-terrorism” law means Putin preparing for war at home and abroad, Ponomaryov says
Today, the Russian Duma passed in second and third reading the so-called “Yarovaya-Ozerov Law on Terrorism,” a draconian measure…
Putin’s policies put Russia at risk of becoming a Donbas writ large, Snegovaya says
The Donbas is no longer at the center of Moscow’s foreign policy, but it remains very much a…
Under Putin, Russia has become ‘two nations living in one country,’ commentators say
One of the most powerful ideological memes of Soviet times was the notion that capitalism divided the population…
Moscow may preemptively boycott Rio Olympiad, Inozemtsev says
Much attention has been devoted to the possibility that the doping scandal that has engulfed Russian sports will…
“Chinese tourists laugh at Russia” and dozen more of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Friday May 13th was Putin’s Kristallnacht, Russian political refugee says
Friday May 13th has “every chance to go down in contemporary Russian history as one of the darkest…
Putin government now behaves like ‘any other occupation regime,’ Moscow commentator says
With its plans to reintroduce the Soviet tax on "parasites" and to restrict travel abroad, the Putin regime…
By taking over state archives, Putin makes a serious error
Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view…
Another baker’s dozen of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Five horrific lessons Kremlin sent Russians with the Vologzheninova case
The sentencing of Ekaterina Vologzheninova for reposting materials against Russian aggression in Ukraine to 320 hours of…
Kadyrov – leading indicator of where Putin is taking Russia, Sokolov says
Today, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov is “the face of the Russian political class, the institutional basis of which is…
Kadyrov, Putin and the desensitization of Russia
Each day seems to bring a fresh outrage from Ramzan Kadyrov, Vladimir Putin and their ilk, an outrage…
Putin, world’s first nuclear terrorist, must be isolated internationally, Yakovenko says
Like a dose of polonium, the “moral idiotism” of Vladimir Putin has succeeded in infecting all of Russia…
Is Putin about to leave office? Inozemtsev doesn’t think so
During the last few days, there have appeared a plethora of articles in both Russia and the West…