Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
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Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Russia’s FSB no longer ‘new nobility’ but only tool like old KGB, Soldatov and Borogan say
The role of Russia’s security services changed in the last year, Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan say. It…
Political murders will continue in Russia because they are useful to Putin, Feygin says
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to…
FSB seeking to block or control all links between Russians and emigration, Melikhov says
Like the KGB in Soviet times, the Russian FSB is seeking to block or take control of any…
Moscow’s campaign against Jehovah’s Witnesses a threat to all believers in Russia
The Putin regime has had undeserved success in presenting itself as a defender of Christianity, but its campaign…
Russian police arrest striking long-haul truckers and then plant ‘incriminating’ evidence
In a move that suggests the Russian authorities have decided to crack down hard on the striking long-haul…
After Tillerson visit, Putin orders sweeping arrests of opposition figures
Last night and this morning after the end of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit, Vladimir Putin…
Ukrainians in Crimea: Six sanctions for refusing a Russian passport
What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet…
Escalating repressions in occupied Crimea: Russia detained key defense attorney
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal…
Putin regime raised political police above all other force structures, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
The Kremlin has “often put the E Center” – the informal name of the MVD’s Anti-Extremism Center –…
![A "Pussy for Putin": In 2010, 17-year old Alisa Kharcheva in a group with other 11 students and would-be students of Moscow State University starred in an erotic calendar for Putin's 58th birthday as Miss April. In 2012, Kharcheva posted these photographs with a cat and Putin portraits in a personal blog post entitled "Pussy for Putin." Then she sent a formal notice to Putin’s office and posted her phone number on her LiveJournal entry just in case. “Until Vladimir Vladimirovich decides to pick up his [birthday] gift, the kitty will live with me,” she wrote. According to Reuters, in 2015, a business associate of Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend of Putin, transferred into her possession an apartment in a smart gated complex in a desirable part of Moscow. She was 23 at the time. (Image: Alisa Kharcheva)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kharcheva_0411.jpg)
Why did Putin say Russia’s prostitutes were ‘best in the world’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russians calling Washington ‘Nashington’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
In Russia, 7-year old SMS gets you 7 years of prison
In early December, Oksana Sevastidi‘s undeservingly forgotten story came to the Russian media’s attention. In March 2016, the simple…
Religious affairs in Russia now under control of security services, Lunkin says
Roman Lunkin, president of the Russian Experts Guild on Religion and Law, says that “religious policy in Russia…
Moscow seeks to discredit Russian protests by suggesting Ukraine is behind them
The FSB is spreading stories claiming that Ukrainian nationalists are behind the protests of Kuban farmers and may…
Stalinist times are returning in Russian-occupied Crimea, Poroshenko says
The incarceration of Ilmi Umerov, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, in a psychiatric hospital…
“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
“Reposts are the Soviet anecdotes of today” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Something much worse than Yarovaya Laws is happening in Russia, Shipilov warns
Whenever the Putin regime does something terrible that attracts a great deal of criticism, it is always worthwhile…