Russians needn’t fear West’s sanctions but should worry about Moscow’s response, Shelin says
The last three years of Russia’s economic isolation show, Sergey Shelin says, that “the counter-measures invented by the…
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‘Is Putin a CIA agent or only the richest man on Earth?’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Shmulyevich: Putin to reprise Stalin’s Winter War in Finland strategy against Ukraine
One of the most important features of Moscow’s behavior but one that at the same time Western leaders…
Gontmakher: ‘Putin’s system could fall apart in a single day,’ like the tsarist one a century ago
A century ago, Nicholas II looked all powerful and yet he was overthrown and his country disintegrated, Yevgeny…
Russian ‘federalism’ is to federalism what ‘military music is to music’
In 1970, Robert Sherill published a harsh critique of the US military’s justice system under the title Military…
To Russia with love: pivotal signals to Putin from Trump Jr meeting
This month’s explosive revelations documented in an email chain that Donald Trump Jr. took a meeting explicitly pitched…
Russia slaps new 15-year prison sentence on Crimean Tatar political prisoner Zeytullaev
The Russian prosecution saw both previous sentences as insufficient and appealed against them in the Rostov Military Court…
War through a child’s eyes: 9-year-old’s diary about Kosovo war now in English
The first serious clashes between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Yugoslav authorities began back in January…
Russia will continue efforts to destabilize Montenegro, expert says
We have written before about Russia's destructive influence growing in the Balkans and the Russian links of those…
Russia joins Iran and North Korea on US ‘axis of evil’ list, Kommersant says
In his State of the Union address in January 2002, then-US President George W. Bush said Iran, Iraq…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
Russia achieving ever more anti-records under Putin
“There are achievements which it would be better not to have,” opposition Russian politician Gennady Gudkov says, and…
‘Syrian war has cost Russia $2.2 billion already’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Crimean residents, Russians increasingly hostile and at odds
Even Crimean residents who initially welcomed the Russian Anschluss are now disappointed with the occupation and angry at…
For the chekists, Navalny is the Yeltsin of 1987, Portnikov says
Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the…
Free Russia Forum outlines what a post-Putin Russia must do to rejoin civilized world
The Free Russia Forum, a group of opposition politicians and analysts, says that a post-Putin Russia can only…
Ukrainian attitudes harden against Kremlin’s positions on Donbas
According to new polls, 60 percent of Ukrainians favor the introduction of international peacekeepers in the Donbas; and…
Putin feels a kinship with Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin “defends Ivan the Terrible and Stalin ‘from excessive demonization’ because unconsciously he feels himself” to share…
‘Moscow losing control in Transdniestria,’ Russian paper says
The flight of the former Transdniestrian president to Chisinau coming after Moldova’s erection of customs posts on Ukrainian…
Eidman: If Kadyrov didn’t exist, Putin would have to create him
Vladimir Putin needs Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov so that “compared to him,” the Kremlin leader will appear “in…