Crimea and the Crimean Tatars: Centuries of competing claims and forgotten history
On August 23, 1932, a secret circular for the economic division of the secret police (OGPU) of the…
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Why Romania will fight Russia
Unlike Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who finally have begun to prepare for the coming Russian invasion, unlike Sweden,…
Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 15th, 2015 is known in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) or a “Holocaust and…
Russian historian: New laws on archives and names show Ukraine ‘increasingly diverging’ from Russia
“The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever…
Moscow wants Crimean Tatars to forget their history; Kyiv wants all Ukrainians to remember it
There are many significant differences between Moscow and Kyiv but perhaps none is more indicative of the kind…
When a preposition is predetermination – Putin began his attack on Ukrainian statehood in 2004
Vladimir Putin stopped using the preposition “v” or “in” Ukraine in 2004, reverting to the older form “na”…
Russia and Russian nation owe their existence to the Mongols, Kalmyk émigré Eurasianist argued
Eurasianism by definition is diverse because it argues that Russia to one degree or another has roots in…
Is Ukraine 2015 going to be a repetition of Hungary 1956?
Moscow’s actions in Ukraine now “strikingly recall the behavior of the Soviet Union” during the Cold War which…
Why did Stalin save the life of Hitler’s gauleiter in Ukraine who sent to graves 4 million people?
That the Soviets and the Nazis cooperated even before the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and that Stalin and Hitler were…
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine is but one aspect of a much larger strategy that threatens European order
In the year since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Russia has done much to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. It annexed Crimea…
Fascism exploited and distorted in Putin’s Russia for propaganda’s sake
For most of the 20th century, the Russians lived under the iron grip of an authoritarian Marxist-Leninist form…
Heroic women run in Ukraine’s blood: Olha Basarab and the 1920’s
Nadiya Savchenko's heroic struggle against illegal imprisonment by a hunger strike in Russia's Butyrka prison is a story…
Six post-Soviet countries now say they were occupied by the USSR
Yesterday, Georgians marked the 94th anniversary of what Tbilisi calls “the battle of the Soviet Occupation” of that…
Stalin’s Caucasus crimes Putin wants you to forget
Exploring the Caucasus is akin to exploring a mini-continent with its many diverse ethnic groups and cultures all…
Russian mother accused of treason defended nation’s right to stop crimes of the government
The whole spectrum of Russian society has already had a say in the debates concerning the case of…
Stalin’s Holodomor in Kazakhstan, or a very brief guide to “The Goloshchekin genocide”
In 1876, in the Russian town of Nevel, a little Bolshevik figure by the name of Philip Isaevich…
Russian analyst: Russia’s turn to fascism should surprise no one
No one should be surprised that Russia is rapidly turning to fascism, according to Mikhail Yampolsky. It is…
Putin on Ukraine repeats Molotov on Finland
1) Putin on Ukraine and NATO = Molotov on Finland and "imperialists" Essentially, Putin repeats Molotov's words. See…
Ukraine and Auschwitz: history and politics
On January 27, 2015, delegations from 40 world countries will arrive in the Polish town of Oświęcim to…
Putin’s war in Ukraine keeps Moscow from addressing Cossack genocide of 1920s
Ninety-six years ago this weekend, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a…