Youth gangs increasingly terrorizing Russian regions
Despite the Putin regime’s massive police presence – Russia now has more police per capita than any other…
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Ukrainians turning away from Russia not only politically but culturally
To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but…
More than 20 Russian regions now at third world levels economically
According to official statistics, approximately every fourth subject of the Russian Federation has a GDP per capita that…
North Caucasus republics could flourish on their own, Israeli political analyst says
Even people who accept that the North Caucasus is a Russian colony often argue that the republics of…
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…
Arms race, on top of sanctions, destroyed the USSR and will destroy Russia
Vladimir Putin’s plans to spend more money on rearmament is “a squandering of valuable natural and labor resources,…
Russians mark Putin’s 18th year in power by reprising Brezhnev-style anecdotes
Eighteen years ago, Vladimir Putin was named Russian prime minister putting him on course to become the ruler…
Appointment of US Special Representative for Ukraine positive for war in Donbas
America’s freshly appointed “Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations” Kurt Volker visited the war zone in East-Ukraine in late…
‘Almost like a century ago’ – Tatars again organize an alternative state in Russia
Last week, the World Congress of Tatars resolved to create its own national council, the Milli Shura, an…
West backed Forest Brothers in Baltic countries, newly declassified CIA documents show
Many in the Baltic countries and elsewhere still celebrate the US non-recognition policy which specified that Washington would…
“Putin’s three greatest ‘achievements’ – unifying Ukraine, the US and the West” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Clash between Tuvin and ethnic Russian soldiers at Russian training academy turns violent
Sixty ethnic Tuvin professional soldiers clashed with about 100 ethnic Russian professional soldiers at a sergeants training academy…
Six characteristics define today’s Stalinists and explain their large influence, Pavlova says
“Stalinist,” like many epithets, is not so much an explanation as something that needs to be explained, US-based…
Putin elites want ‘Stalinism without Stalin’ and ‘repression with a human face,’ Rubtsov says
Russians do not, by their nature, “love Stalin,” Novaya gazeta commentator Aleksandr Rubtsov says; instead, they “are being…
Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
Russia now has 15 to 20 enormous and horrifying ‘national disaster zones,’ statistics show
Statistics issued by Rosstat and the United Nations show that Russia now consists of 15 to 20 “national…
‘Alternatives to revolution in Putin’s Russia are not elections but more wars,’ Eidman says
Last week, Pskov parliamentarian Lev Shlosberg argued that the only alternative to revolution in the Russia of Vladimir…
“Stay, my people!” – last word of Crimean Tatar political prisoner Zeytullaev
I would like to appeal to my long-suffering people, who have sustained a lot of violence and forcible…
Putin has never grown out of childish belief that force is enough, Yakovenko says
In most cultures, young people use force to dominate others but with time, the majority of them uses…
Is it beginning in Belarus? ‘Little green men’ appear alongside Russian troops in Vitebsk
A man from the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, a city not far from the Russian border, has posted…