Russia aims to smear Mejlis after latest raid on Crimean Tatars which left one dead and imprisoned four
On 23 November, Russian secret police (FSB) raided two cafes and a number of houses in Crimea’s capital,…
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Moscow intensifies its efforts to use Russian emigres to promote Kremlin policies
At least in part because the Bolsheviks came out of emigration to take power, Moscow has long viewed…
Russia kidnapped two Ukrainian border guards and may hunt for more
The officers of Ukraine’s State Border Service (DPSU) Ihor Dzyubak and Bohdan Martson disappeared in Sumy Oblast, near…
‘Desperate Pensioner Asks Putin to Send Him a Coffin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russian Security Agencies Said Increasing Recruitment of Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin comes up with another way to hide Russian combat losses
Vladimir Putin’s decision to allow foreigners to serve in the Russian military not only reflects Russia’s demographic problems…
Exiled Putin critic’s murder in Kyiv work of FSB, Ukraine’s top prosecutor says
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has presented the results of an investigation into the murder of former Russian State…
Kremlin ‘road-tested’ repressive measures on LGBTs before applying them more broadly, Khots says
Like many dictators before him and just as Pastor Niemoeller warned, Vladimir Putin tested various repressive measures on…
FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say
The Zapad-2017 military exercise has ended “without the annexation of Belarus, a new round of aggression against Ukraine,…
Repression of Muslims in Crimea – a reflection of Moscow’s fear of Islam as an anti-colonial force
Zair Smedlyayev, a Crimean Tatar activist, and Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD)…
Russian FSB accuses Ukrainian teen it abducted of “terrorism”
Russia’s FSB has confirmed that the Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb, who went missing in Belarus on 24 August…
Russian FSB abducts Ukrainian teen who went to meet a girl in Belarus
On Ukraine’s Independence Day, 24 August, Pavlo traveled from Chernihiv in northern Ukraine to the neighboring Belarusian city…
Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US
Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…
FSB demands detailed personal information on Russians using social networks
In its effort to gain control over social networks, an effort that is likely to fall short given…
Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine: an exchange pool for Ukrainian hostages | #LetMyPeopleGo
On 30 June 2017, a powerboat bearing Russian identification marks was intercepted by Ukrainian military when approaching the…
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 heavily involved with ISIS and other terrorist groups, Ukraine tells NATO
In the not so distant past, the United States government would have taken the lead in exposing Russian…
Difficult choice for Ukraine as identities of KGB agents finally come to light
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files…
FSB arrest grad student for hanging Ukrainian flag from Moscow University building
The student waved the flag out the window in the direction of a March 18 rally commemorating the…
Imaginary “terrorists” with no terror acts: Russia’s collective punishment of Crimean Muslims
Difference between Russia and Ukraine 21 March is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.…