Animal killings launched in 11 Russian cities to “clear the field” for FIFA World Cup 2018
The shelter is overcrowded; there are now 179 dogs, and new strays are systematically turned away. “This is…
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Georgia’s sentence against Saakashvili: restoration of justice or political persecution?
The New Year in Georgia was inaugurated with an upsurge of political controversies, triggered by Tbilisi City Court’s…
Saakashvili in Ukraine: revolutionary, Kremlin agent, or Poroshenko’s project?
The story of the political activity of Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili in Ukraine is diverse and ambivalent. Some…
Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor…
Moscow preparing to replace its forces in Donbas with ‘private’ military ones, Kyiv analyst suggests
The Russian State Duma will soon be taking up draft legislation regularizing the status of nominally “private” military…
Putin becoming ‘a decorative dictator,’ Novoprudsky says
“The chief paradox” of the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, Semyon Novoprudsky says, is that “everyone knows who…
Chaplain Mykola: For patriotic priests, the “front line” represents all of Ukraine!
- The number one mission for anyone who loves Ukraine is protecting Ukraine, but not only in the…
As in Soviet times, Kremlin again misusing psychiatry against its political opponents, Svetova says
One of the most horrific aspects of the last years of the Soviet Union was the abuse of…
Can anything be done in Ukraine with the so-called “canonical” Moscow Patriarchate?
Similar acts committed by clerics of the UOC-MP – in fact a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church…
Putin invaded Ukraine to prevent ‘Ukrainian’ ideas from spreading into Russia, Shmelyev says
The main reason Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea and the Donbas, Aleksandr Shmelyev says, is that he feared that…
10 things about what the Kremlin is calling an “election”
Aleksey Shaburov, a Yekaterinburg commentator, says that people are making a mistake treating the March 2018 voting as…
Russia, not China, violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Nemets says
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at China for violating sanctions regime against North Korea, Aleksandr Nemets…
‘Ukrainian-Language Samizdat Appears in Russia-Occupied Crimea’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Yet another country – Lithuania – forced to ask: Is this stupidity or is it treason?
In mid-November 1916, Russian Kadet party leader Pavel Milyukov posed a question which is increasingly being heard in…
Soviet chekists weren’t the professionals Putin wants Russians to think they were, new book says
The KGB and its predecessors were not the highly disciplined professionals and successful managers Vladimir Putin and the…
Top Moscow bank to stop servicing sanctioned Russian defense firms
Oleg Sysuyev, the deputy head of Alfa-Bank, Russia's seventh largest bank by net assets, says that his institution will…
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…
Russia is preparing for big war and with each new conflict increases its capabilities, Shmulyevich says
The best explanation for Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Syria has been the improvement of the capabilities of the…
Moscow Patriarchate takes lead in prisoner exchange to its benefit in Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played…
What Ukraine can take from the “Croatian Scenario” of conflict resolution
What do people mean by “the Croatian Scenario”? What time does it refer to? The "Croatian Scenario” refers…