Is Lukashenka worried about the loyalty of the Belarusian siloviki?
Less than two weeks from when a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise is scheduled to begin, Belarusian President Alyaksandr…
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Initiatives to counter disinformation spring up in the Russian language
Prominent Russian sociologist and dissident Igor Eidman has started a new Facebook group to “counter Kremlin propaganda” in…
Moscow’s private military companies continue to be a serious threat in Ukraine
Well-paid private military companies are an increasingly important component of Moscow’s strategy in the Donbas and elsewhere providing…
Putin suddenly wants armed peacekeepers in Donbas. Why now? What for?
Having ignored all previous Ukrainian proposals to deploy UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, Putin now claims that Russia…
‘Kim Jong Un guarded by former KGB officers’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Donbas in Gorky Park’ – Moscow’s violence in Ukraine is coming back to haunt Russia
The violence Moscow “exported” to Ukraine and other parts of what the Kremlin claims are parts of “the…
Russian-speaking Belarusians and Ukrainians threaten Putin’s ‘Russian world’ and Russia itself
Most commentaries on Belarus and Ukraine suggest that the relatively large Russian-speaking populations in these two countries are…
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…
Military expert Starykov: Zapad-2017 war games in Belarus designed to demonstrate Russia’s military power
“The Vienna Document stipulates that there cannot be more than 12,000 troops participating in military exercises, but there…
‘Russians increasingly looking beyond Putin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Unique 1919-1920 map of Ukraine exhibited in Prague
The exhibition titled “The Refugee Experience: The Fate of Refugees from the Territory of the Former Russian Empire…
Three ways Kremlin contributing to Russia’s demographic crisis
Most analysts in Russia and the West argue that changes in the size of the prime child-bearing cohort…
The revolution looming in Russia will be more like 1917 than like 1991, Pastukhov says
Twenty years before the Great French Revolution broke out in 1789, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son that…
Seeking to avoid another 1991, Kremlin takes a step making that more likely, Galkina says
Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,”…
Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’
A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…
“Russia now has more prostitutes than doctors, farmers and firemen combined” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin era is coming to an end and both he and other Russians recognize that, Moscow sociologist says
On March 1, 1953, Radio Liberty began broadcasting to the Soviet Union in Russian. Its Russian employees wanted…
More than 100 neo-Nazi sites have moved to Russian social networks
After its American internet providers refused to continue to carry it, the American neo-Nazi publication, The Daily Stormer,…
Armenia on its way to becoming ‘a second Ukraine,’ some commentators say
A few days ago, Karine Gevorkyan, a leading Yerevan orientalist, said that Armenia, as a result of the…
Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…