Neglected stories from Russian-occupied Crimea for this week
After Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, the human rights and economic situation in the occupied…
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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…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
‘Who are the anonymous people terrorizing those who criticize Putin?’
As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics,…
USSR dead? Not in Russia-occupied Crimea!
Did you ever think of what basic reason drives some people in Russia-occupied Crimea to support Putin? No,…
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…
Occupied Crimea is Moscow’s test laboratory for repressions, Stelmakh says
Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than…
Portnikov calls for establishing pan-Crimean body for liberation of Russian-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov says that Ukrainians must recognize that Crimea is--like the Donbas--a Russian-occupied territory and will…
Putin’s method to prevent terrorism at Sochi Games backfiring now in Middle East and Caucasus
Vladimir Putin received enormous credit for preventing any terrorist incidents from interfering with the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but…
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…
Pro-Kremlin analyst says Putin’s officials in Crimea do nothing but ‘lie and steal’
Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Moscow Near East Institute says that Ukraine and Türkiye have created some problems…
Two outrageous Russian charges signal new dangers for Ukraine
Two new and completely outrageous Russian charges – that the Crimean Tatars are under the control of Turkish…
Ukrainian parliament declares 1944 Soviet deportation of Crimean Tatars an act of genocide
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada today declared the Soviet deportation of the Crimean Tatars an act of genocide and announced…
Putin now using FSB to intimidate journalists into not covering his opponents
In the age of the Internet, it isn’t enough for an authoritarian ruler to control what appears in…
Putin rebuilding the Iron Curtain in his typical ‘hybrid’ fashion
Many people continue to carry with them an image of the Iron Curtain as consisting of barbed wire,…
‘In the Donbas, there is a war, but in Crimea, there is terror,’ Crimeans say
Many believe that the situation in Russian-occupied Crimea is “not so terrible” because there is no war going…
A checklist of 10 Russian developments worth watching
The situation in and around Russia is now changing with such dizzying rapidity that it is all but…
FSB sets the stage for new crackdown in Crimea and across Russia
The head of the FSB in annexed Crimea says that “anti-Russian risings do not yet threaten” the peninsula…