Fewer Russians but more Russian speakers: The changing face of Russia
The number and percentage of ethnic Russians in Astrakhan has been declining two to three percent every decade,…
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Orthodox world heading toward a new schism
The decisions of the Bulgarian, Serbian and Antioch Orthodox churches not to attend the Holy and Great Council…
The rapidly changing landscape in Europe
Thirty years ago the political landscape on the European continent seemed stable and fixated for decades to come.…
West must again shift from containing Russia’s leaders to defeating them, Pastukhov says
Just as was the case at the beginning of the 1980s, the United States must shift from a…
New round of “Game of Thrones” in the Russian Special Services
Quite a bit has been written about the opposition to Putin’s recently created National Guard under the leadership…
International protest #StopPutinsWarInUkraine – Photos
On 9-10 June 2016, the international protest Stop Putin’s war in Ukraine took place. 30 protest locations were…
Pocket Vocabulary of Kremlin-speak
Use this short vocabulary to translate the language the Kremlin uses in its broadcasts into human language: Sacral —…
“Just how bad is Russian economy?” and other neglected Russian Stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russian Communist Party wants to change date of Russia Day
Russian communists have proposed transferring the most important national holiday of the country – Russia Day – commemorating…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
Kremlin official: Moscow can’t sit by when ethnic Russians are “oppressed and persecuted” in former Soviet republics
Speaking in Russian-occupied Crimea, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko on Friday gave the clearest sign yet that the…
Two years of Poroshenko’s presidency: failures and achievements
Petro Poroshenko has been president for two years and Ukraine is slowly moving forward, but the question is…
‘Who are the anonymous people terrorizing those who criticize Putin?’
As disturbing as the Putin regime’s abuse of the Russian legal system to go after its online critics,…
Ukrainians unwelcomed. France denied visa for Euro 2016 to Ukraine’s youngest football fan
Eight year-old Volodya Bobenchyk from Lviv never misses any home game of FC Karpaty Lviv and cries when…
Is Moscow about to be offered easing of sanctions on the West’s terms?
Russian commentator Lilia Shevtsova argues that Moscow is about to be offered a way out of isolation but…
“How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow now training Belarusians in Russian camp headed by openly fascist leader
Belarusians are now being trained in a camp in Russia that is headed by an openly fascist Russian…
Russia remains a Byzantine state and that may doom it, ‘Gazeta’ editors say
The photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting on what many falsely supposed was the throne of Byzantine emperors have…
Under Putin, Russia has become ‘two nations living in one country,’ commentators say
One of the most powerful ideological memes of Soviet times was the notion that capitalism divided the population…
National responsibility: Why Savchenko is not a ticking bomb for Ukraine
Recently, Putin’s so-called “special Savchenko operation” has become the favourite topic of Russian propagandists, who are saying the…
