Separatist TV: Delirious Reports from the Stone Age
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Latvian and Lithuanian volunteer groups deliver sixth donation cargo to Ukraine
At the very end on March, Latvian volunteer group “SOS palīdzība Ukrainas armijai” together with its Lithuanian allies…
Is the Russian Army about to get a Central Asian face?
Moscow’s proposals to create a Russian foreign legion and to allow Tajikistan citizens to serve in the ranks…
Russian military observer: To counter NATO in Baltic, Moscow ready to use nuclear weapons
Faced with superior NATO forces in the larger Baltic Sea region and the threat they pose in the…
Russian historian: New laws on archives and names show Ukraine ‘increasingly diverging’ from Russia
“The mental gap between Ukraine and Russia is growing, and the trajectories of the two country are ever…
Summary of Ukraine’s four new decommunization bills
1. Bill #2538-1 “On the Legal Status and Honoring the Memory of Fighters for Ukraine’s Independence in the…
Moscow commentator: Belarus must vote this year to join Russia or face ‘liquidation’
In what appears to be a response to Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s recent declaration that Belarus will never become the…
Russian internal troops prepare to counter “maidans” across Russia and in occupied Crimea
Russian internal troops are currently conducting exercises in six of the countries federal districts – the North-West, Central,…
The country of triumphant resentment: Yampolskiy on Russia’s loss of reality
Resentment One of the most striking developments in Russian society has been the explosive growth of aggression simultaneously…
Crimean Tatar leaders, NGOs meet in Turkey, pledge to seek justice for repression
On 4-5 April 2015, 43 Crimean Tatar organizations dubbed the “Platform of Crimean Tatar organizations” met in Ankara,…
Moscow wants Crimean Tatars to forget their history; Kyiv wants all Ukrainians to remember it
There are many significant differences between Moscow and Kyiv but perhaps none is more indicative of the kind…
Sputnik News or manure for feeble minds
Today I stumbled upon the article “Anti-Russian Sanctions Are a ‘Disaster’ for Italy” by Russia’s propaganda outlet Sputnik…
Russian occupiers close 11 of 12 Crimean Tatar media outlets and 2700 of 3,000 others
Of the slightly more 3,000 media outlets in Crimea before the Anschluss, the Russian occupation authorities have reregistered…
When a preposition is predetermination – Putin began his attack on Ukrainian statehood in 2004
Vladimir Putin stopped using the preposition “v” or “in” Ukraine in 2004, reverting to the older form “na”…
Putin conducting ‘hybrid genocide’ against Crimean Tatars, Muzhdabayev says
Moscow officials are asserting and some in the West are accepting the notion that local officials in Crimea…
Kremlin propaganda, fellow travelers, and the third Russo-Ukrainian war
The Propaganda Those who know their history realize we are witnessing the 3rd Russo Ukrainian war. The first…
Russia and Russian nation owe their existence to the Mongols, Kalmyk émigré Eurasianist argued
Eurasianism by definition is diverse because it argues that Russia to one degree or another has roots in…
Russians refuse to note Putin is treating Crimean Tatars the same way Hitler did
For more than a year, Russians have failed to take note of and react to the fact that…
FSB’s continuing conflict with Kadyrov highlights Putin’s weakened position
The conflict between the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and Ramzan Kadyrov over who is to be held…
Rabid Russian imperialism and anti-Americanism feed worldview of key Kremlin strategist
Some “pearls of wisdom” from Leonid Reshetnikov, a retired SVR general, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic…