‘Stalin’s second coming will require victims,’ Moscow paper says
Stalin is enjoying a rebirth in the Russian Federation, one that enjoys the support of the population, according…
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Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over half of that, OilStat analysts say
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since…
No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places
The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…
Whistleblower shares insights on workings of Russian state-controlled media
According to Mr Skorobutov, the management put pressure on him not to report an alleged attack by a…
Moscow’s plans to cut military pensions seen driving military retirees to back opposition
The first rule of any government is that the state pays the people with guns charged with protecting…
A rare Russian glimpse of fate of Vlasovites forcibly returned to the USSR
There are many Stalinist crimes Russian writers either pass over in silence or minimize, but one that is…
FSB seeking to block or control all links between Russians and emigration, Melikhov says
Like the KGB in Soviet times, the Russian FSB is seeking to block or take control of any…
Court extends house arrest of Fiscal Chief in Ukraine’s first major anti-corruption case
The detention of Roman Nasirov, Head of the Fiscal Service of Ukraine, in March 2017 was promising. For…
‘If a bourgeois revolution is to start in Russia, it will begin with Tatarstan,’ Kazan historian says
Just as jadidist writers like Yosef Akchura played a key role in elaborating “the Tatar model” that became…
FIFA said investigating Russian soccer team for doping, putting 2018 World Cup at risk
A British newspaper is reporting that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, is now investigating all the…
Crimean Tatar activist Zair Smedlyaev: “Russian guests” massively replace indigenous population of Crimea
Zair Smedlyaev, head of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar People, talks about how the Russian…
Is a Russian Oliver Stone going to make a movie about Donald Trump?
Vladimir Surin, director of the Moscow Center for the Study of Socially Significant Problems, says a Russian film…
Trump-Putin bromance is far from over, despite Russia’s anti-American rhetoric
Russian experts and sociologists have noted a sharp increase in both anti-Western sentiment and anti-American rhetoric in Russian…
Belarus not threatened by a Ukrainian scenario: It has its own ‘little green men,’ Ukrainian analyst says
Belarus is not currently threatened by a Russian action like the one Moscow has carried out in Ukraine…
French politicians to visit Donbas to “support Russian army being bombarded by Ukraine”
Three French local politicians from Bouches-du-Rhône county in southern France have kicked off their visit to Moscow to…
Putin regime now ‘one grandiose fake’ from top to bottom, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s use of a video showing American planes to impress Oliver Stone of the power of Russian…
Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…
Diplomatic tightrope and historical memory: Ukraine-Israel foreign policy audit
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the…
Russia’s long-haul truckers add a political dimension to strike against Plato system
The long-haul truckers, who have been striking against the Plato fee system, have decided to extend their action…
A century of Russian revolts against Soviet power
In 1974, Russian émigré journalist Yuri Srechinsky reacted with horror to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s suggestion in his GULAG Archipelago…