Ankara congress underscores why Crimean Tatars are such an asset for Ukraine and such a problem for Moscow
The Second World Congress of the Crimean Tatar People which ended yesterday in Ankara shows why the Crimean…
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Normalization of relations with Moscow impossible until Russian occupation of Crimea ends, Ukrainian foreign minister says
In the most detailed discussion of what might be called Kyiv’s non-recognition policy of the Russian Anschluss, Ukrainian…
Idiots ‘useful’ and otherwise on the rise in Russia and the West
Idiotism is on the rise in both Russia and the West, with its spread in Russia having transformed…
Rights advocate forced to use ‘Russian-English samizdat’ to speak truths unwelcome in Russia and the West
Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that…
FSB helps Russian Islamists go fight in Syria, prosecutes ones who come back, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
“The Russian special services have controlled” the flow of Islamist radicals from Russia to Syria “from the very…
Moscow tries everything in unsuccessful bid to stop World Crimean Tatar Congress in Ankara
The Russian authorities are doing everything they can — from threatening Crimean Tatars living in occupied Crimea to…
Ukraine’s fugitive Prime Minister creates “Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine” in Moscow
According to the Russian news source Gazeta.ru, the fugitive former prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the party…
Patriarch Kirill sends letters to Putin and Poroshenko
On the eve of the 1000th anniversary of death of Vladimir the Great, Patriarch Kiril (of the Russian Orthodox…
Do Ukrainians want reform?
The word “reform” is being used in public discourse in Ukraine more frequently than ever before. The 2014…
Ukraine’s revolutionary technology startups hit the UK
The first Ukrainian Startups Roadshow was held in London on 23-25 July 2015. Ten innovative and creative technology projects…
Like Milosevic, Putin may destroy his country and end in the Hague, Shtepa suggests
In a comment for Kasparov.ru, Vadim Shtepa suggests that there are obvious “parallels” between Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir…
Jewish scholar fleeing ‘Nazi-like atmosphere’ of Putin’s Russia
Ilya Frank, a Jewish linguist whose approach has defined how Russians study foreign languages for more than a…
Moscow military analyst: Preparing for a war in 2025, Putin wants new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to divide up Ukraine
Vladimir Putin changed his public assessment of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which opened the way to World War…
Apocalyptic Russian nationalist utopias of today parallel their pre-1917 antecedents
In the last years of the Russian Empire, Russian conservatives composed numerous utopias in which “the Russian World…
Crimea braces for another Russian invasion – ‘commissars from Moscow’
Moscow has disbanded two of the agencies it created to integrate occupied Crimea – the Ministry for Crimean…
Donbas militias are “UNITS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY,” says Babchenko
Having launched a “hybrid” war giving it plausible deniability for many, Russia now has a “hybrid” army, a…
Moscow’s Ukrainian war again filling Russian streets with invalids
Moscow may be able to disown two of its soldiers who fought in its war in Ukraine, and…
Who are the French MPs that are visiting Crimea
Who came and for what reason? The trip of the French Parliament members was organized by the Franco-Russian…
Annexations real and imaginary
Seventy-five years ago today, Acting US Secretary of State Sumner Wells declared that the United States would not…
Ukrainians as ‘fraternal people’ – a Soviet invention, Oleshchuk says
The notion that Ukrainians are “a fraternal people” to the Russians, something that Russian leaders from Vladimir Putin…
