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…
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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…
Putin and Trump may have chemistry but they don’t have physics to make a deal, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may have achieved a certain “chemistry” at their meeting in Hamburg, as US…
A single methane ‘bubble’ explosion from global warming could cut Russia off from 89% of its natural gas
Eighty-nine percent of Russia’s natural gas production comes from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the Russian Far North…
Middle Volga Muslim fighters for ‘Russian world’ in Donbas divided on its meaning, Suleymanov says
Muslims from Russia’s Middle Volga region who went to fight for the "DNR" and "LNR" in Ukraine were…
Russia has as many as 5 million homeless, not the 64,000 Rosstat reports
Sergey Mironov, head of the Just Russia Party, says there may be as many as five million homeless…
Fugitive Ukraine’s President Yanukovych recalls his lawyers from treason trial, files motion over “coup d’état”
On July 5, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who stands charged with high treason in Ukraine said he will not…
Russia’s imperial crackdown on the memory of indigenous victims of deportations
Imperial nostalgia against the memory of victims In June 2017, a month after the 73d anniversary of Sürgünlik…
Global warming already having ‘explosive’ consequences in Russian North
Because permafrost underlies two-thirds of the territory of the Russian Federation and because two-thirds of that is projected…
Putin’s greatest fear is the FSB refusing to fire on the Russian people, Golts says
Aleksandr Golts, a Moscow specialist on military affairs and the deputy chief editor of Yezhednevny zhurnal, says that…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator.…
Disinformation across ages: Russia’s old but effective weapon of influence
I. The Metropol gala It was 10 December 2015. Russia’s global propaganda television channel RT (formerly Russia Today)…
Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change
Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower…
The Russian war against Ukraine by the numbers
There is no “Ukrainian crisis,” as so many in Moscow and the West continue to say; there is…
“Poisoning” by headlines: how Russian disinformation keeps spreading
Several Russian-language outlets reported that visitors of the “Green Day” festival in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson…
Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions
Facing ever greater difficulty in raising money in the West because of sanctions and calls by its own…
“Britain may be leaving the EU, but is not forgetting Ukraine” | International relations audit
The interaction between Ukraine and the United Kingdom demonstrates hundreds of examples of intensive collaboration, yet there are…