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…
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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…
Who is who in the Minsk process | Infographics
The Minsk peace process is so far seen as the only way to stop the war between combined…
Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine
Very detailed evidence Now, almost three years after, very detailed evidence has been gathered about the event. The…
Yakovenko: Putinist fascism – not an ideology but a set of criminal ‘understandings’
Vladimir Putin’s fascism, the first “post-modern” fascism, is able to include under its banner so many radically different…
Is Russia getting ready to launch a nuclear strike from Crimea?
“For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the United States recognizes that Russia poses…
Putin’s Donbas tactics won’t work in Baltic countries for economic reasons, Ilves says
Moscow won’t be able to use “the Russian speaking diaspora” in Estonia and other Baltic countries as it…
Pastukhov: Any successor to Putin likely to be a dictator
The current attacks on Alexei Navalny that suggest he will become a dictator if he manages somehow to…
Email chains and other Russia’s propaganda tools in central and eastern Europe
The messages of pro-Kremlin disinformation may differ from country to country, as may the tools and channels for…
Russia needs the US as an enemy and as a supporter, Shevtsova says
During Mikhail Gorbachev’s first visit to Washington, Georgy Arbatov, the Soviet Union’s leading Americanist who was accompanying him,…
Putin’s Russian world seeks to offer others 12 unattractive values, Sytin says
Aleksandr Sytin was recently on a Moscow television show hosted by Vladimir Solovyev about the values Vladimir Putin’s…
Putin-Trump summit wasn’t a second Yalta; it was Rapallo-2, Abarinov warns
Many especially in Eastern Europe feared that the first Putin-Trump summit in Hamburg could become a second Yalta,…
Russian experts: In 20 years, Moscow will have 35 million residents, a third of them Muslims
The population of the Moscow agglomeration by 2035 will reach 35 million, of whom 25 to 30 percent…
Rex Tillerson’s visit to Kyiv: key things to know
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid an official visit to Kyiv on 9 June. A few days…
When a Western leader spoke the truth to Putin — and Putin couldn’t take it
Even Western leaders who are distinguished by the boldness of their statements on other issues appear reluctant to…
Zhirinovsky’s final solution for Ukraine would leave rump state within NATO and the EU
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the flamboyant and often outrageous leader of the misnamed Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia, must not be…
Moscow continues to cover up mass murder by Chechen authorities
Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents,…
‘Lavrov confirms Russian forces intervened in Ukraine’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…