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…
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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…
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…
‘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…