Moscow’s success in gutting Crimea’s independent media and Two meanings of ‘Russianization’
In Soviet times, Western analysts often said that Russians in the USSR were subjected to Sovietization while non-Russians…
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Moscow overplayed its hand in Moldova and undermined Gagauz vote
Moscow’s interference in the Gagauz Bashkan elections was so blatant that even a Barbie or matryoshka doll could…
Putin’s FSB speech paves road for more repressions and crackdowns in Russia
Highlights from Putin’s speech to the Federal Security Service board meeting on 26 March 2014: I would like…
Like Stalin, Putin makes fascists feel ‘right at home’ in his ‘Reich’
Some Russians explain the holding of a conference in St. Petersburg of fascists from around the world by…
Save Crimean Tatar television!
Many people around the world are talking about the need to launch Russian-language television channels in order that…
Russians repress Ukrainians in Far East and threaten to deport Crimean Tatars there
Ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, the descendants of Ukrainians who moved there voluntarily in late tsarist…
Moscow financier: Russia must be expelled from UN just as USSR was from League of Nations
Vladimir Putin is “not Yeltsin’s successor but Stalin’s,” and Sergey Lavrov is the successor of Stalin’s commissar Vyacheslav…
‘A calm before the storm?’ – Russia’s radical right refocusing on ‘fifth column,’ SOVA says
Positive developments with regard to radical extremist Russian nationalists during 2014 – including a falloff in the number…
Three more historical parallels for Putin
Whenever people are confronted by changes that call into question existing paradigms, their first reaction typically is to…
Cast your vote for the most lunatic fascist at the International Russian Conservative Forum
The “International Russian Conservative” aka fascism Forum that was hosted by the Russian party ‘Rodina,’ a close ally of…
British Ukrainians crowdsource three cars, send to Ukraine’s frontlines
London Euromaidan is sending 3 cars (2 SUVs and 1 Pick-up), protective equipment and medicine to Ukrainian soldiers…
Russian imperialism: Only a bare majority of Russians wants Russia to stay within its current borders
Only 57 percent of Russians say that their country should be satisfied with and continue to live within…
All ‘Chechen versions’ in Nemtsov murder case show Putin to blame
The Kremlin and its supporters in Russia and abroad along with those frightened by the implications of holding…
Support for Putin’s Ukrainian policy softens in Russia but remains high in Russian diaspora
As Russians become aware of the costs that Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine entail, ever fewer of them…
5 explanations for the Russian “Kyiv junta” myth
On 22 March 2015, Russia’s party ‘Rodina’ (‘Motherland’), which caucuses with Putin’s ‘United Russia’ party and was formerly led by…
After Putin, Russians will say they were deceived just as Germans did after Hitler
Not all, but “the overwhelming majority of Germans sincerely believed” what Hitler said, just as not all but…
Trauma and Betrayal: How Ukraine is beginning to break free of Russia
When the commander of battalion Azov, Andrii Biletskyi, commented recently on the reluctance of Ukrainian bureaucrats to fight…
Russia hosts Fascist Forum in St. Petersburg
Today Russian conservatives welcomed members of Europe’s far-right ultranationalist parties to participate in a forum entitled “International Russian…
Russian historian: Ukrainian war helped make Russia a neo-totalitarian regime that will fall to the Black Hundreds
The most terrible thing for Russia about its war in Ukraine is the extent to which that conflict…
Russia tries hassling Denmark over protection
Denmark might become a possible target for Russian nuclear attacks according to the ambassador of Russia in Denmark…