Most of Russian elite oppose war but tell Putin lies – Financial Times
Vladimir Putin’s bureaucratic culture and prizing of loyalty over competence have pushed his closest circle to tell him…
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Russia’s strategic nuclear forces to hold drills ahead of Biden’s visit to Europe – Ukraine’s Intel
Russia started large-scale drills of its strategic nuclear forces ahead of Joe Biden’s visit to Europe, Ukraine’s Intelligence…
Leaked emails from Russia FSB reveal it discussed use of nuclear weapons in March 2022 – Newsweek
Leaked emails from a whistleblower at Russia’s FSB revealed that Russian officials discussed potential use of nuclear weapons…
Moscow Patriarchate moved into Africa to provide cover for FSB officers and PMCs, not to punish anyone over Ukraine, Horyevoy says
The Moscow Patriarchate has insisted and most people have accepted the idea that Kirill has expanded the presence…
Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…
The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…
Daily review: Ukraine refutes Russia’s claims of chemical weapons use, Russia seeks intel on Ukraine’s air defense, life sentences demanded for MH17 suspects
Past 24 hours in the war zone According to Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation Staff, Russian-led militants launched 3…
A coffee seller and an entire village family: who are the three detained Ukrainians Russia’s FSB arrested as “spies”
Grani.ru, Russia’s independent website, draws a link between this event and the meeting of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign…
Prisons central to Putin regime and films of torture in them a major political problem
Prisons and even their reputation for brutality are an important support for the Putin regime because Russians do…
GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal
The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” – a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Moscow seized control of Russian émigré group in US to promote Kremlin policies in Ukraine
In fact, the FBI did speak with some members of the group; but it did not move to…
Ukrainians fear Moscow may use their co-ethnics in Russia in provocation to restart war
Five days ago (April 29), the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported it had arrested 16 members of a…
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
Like KGB in Soviet times, FSB ‘curators’ assuming expanded role in Russian academia
The special departments in educational institutions that existed in Soviet times and were headed by the KGB were…
Russia still hiding Stalin’s genocidal crimes against Finns and Norwegians after 80 years
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940…
Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 2: commercialization and criminalization, from “Bandit St. Petersburg” onward
The formation of a fundamentally new Russian political force – the FSB – took place throughout the entire…
Supreme power of Putin’s FSB. Part 1: how the Soviet KGB became Russia’s FSB
“State security agencies have always been an instrument of the supreme power of the existing political regime… [In…
Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness yet
The man is mentioned in the report by the first letter of his last name as “citizen K.”,…
The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…
