How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…
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Moscow officials currently preparing for Anschluss of Belarus, Larionov says
Moscow’s demand that Minsk agree to the opening of a Russian base in Belarus in order to continue…
Save the Council of Europe from Russian blackmail
The human rights situation in the European Region is under threat, as the key organization protecting it might…
Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it
The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…
Five common notions about Russia’s disintegration all defective, Shtepa says
The five most common stereotypical notions about how the Russian Federation might fall apart do not reflect realities…
Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
Russia ignores PACE resolutions to end aggression against Ukraine. So PACE prepares to lift sanctions
Russia has not implemented a single call of any PACE resolution calling on it to stop its aggression…
Tensions flare after Hungarian consul caught secretly issuing passports in western Ukraine
Ukraine and Hungary have entered another round of conflict escalation. A video which surfaced on 19 September showing…
Elections 2019: beware of Ukrainian media manipulating polls and ratings
- Let’s start with the denial published by Iryna Bekeshkina, Director of the Democratic Initiatives Fund: “We didn’t…
Moscow’s much-ballyhooed Vostok-2018 military maneuvers involve far fewer soldiers than advertised, Golts says
In an article for New Times, independent Russian military analyst Aleksandr Golts says that the ongoing military maneuvers…
Russian propaganda all too often promoted by ‘willing local participants,’ Imbi Paju says
Western governments, worried about Russia’s propaganda war against the West, often talk about blocking messages from the Kremlin;…
Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says
Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near…
Given rising Russian protests, Putin has three options – and none is good for Ukraine, Portnikov says
The protests in Russia on Sunday were an unusual event, but they were not “the beginning of a…
Moscow attacked Skripal for betraying Russian oligarchs, highlighting mafia nature of Putin regime, Portnikov says
Sergey Skripal’s cooperation with the Spanish authorities in exposing the criminality of the Russian oligarchs rather than the…
Moscow military expert: Ukraine is Russia’s mortal enemy and must be dismantled or absorbed
All too many people in Moscow view Ukraine as a fraternal republic that NATO is using against Russia,…
Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow
Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the…
Occupied Donetsk: re-settlement of Russian “immigrants”, all-pervasive fear & ecological disaster
“The Russian militants have always intimidated the locals, ever since they arrived in our area… so that almost…
A warning sign in the Donbas: Moscow replacing local people with Russians
One of the most reliable signs that an aggressor is about to launch a new attack is his…
Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able…
Falling ratings even more likely to lead Putin to large war than they were before 2014, Larionov says
Over the last three months, the ratings of Vladimir Putin and the Russian authorities have fallen by almost…