Putin’s priorities: Propaganda over people and even national defense
Budget documents may seem dry reading most of the time, but they often provide clearer indications than anything…
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Russia hosting Europe’s neo-Nazis, nationalists and anti-Semites, Putin supporters all
Even as Moscow denounces anything it views as a manifestation of fascism abroad and prepares to mark the…
Crimeans find a new way to protest Russian occupation — via the Census
There are many ways that the powerless can protest their status – jokes, indifference and contempt among them.…
Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatars recalls Hitler’s treatment of Jews before 1938
Russia’s treatment of the Crimean Tatars since the Anschluss a year ago recalls that of Hitler’s Germany between…
In the USSR, there was no sex; in Putin’s Russia, no suicides from medical despair
In the USSR, it was sometimes said, there was no sex because that subject could not be addressed…
Misled by Russian propaganda on Ukrainian fascists, Kyrgyz mercenary leaves separatists ranks
“Azattyk”: Manas, you are dressed in the fatigues of the separatist groups of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” How…
OSCE bans exhibition on Crimea
We have become used to the fact that OSCE-observers are fooled by Russia and their proxies in the…
Putin not threatened by a coup now but Russia is by its dependence on him, Kyiv analyst says
Kyiv analyst Taras Berezovets says that there is no threat that Vladimir Putin will be overthrown by a…
Unless Moscow suppresses racism, World Cup can’t be held in Russia, FIFA VP says
Given how much racism there is in Russia and how seldom Moscow seeks to rein it in, holding…
A green light for Putin? Germans say West hasn’t found way to block ‘hybrid’ war
Moscow has been encouraged not only by the failure of the West to do more than impose economic…
Russian government Internet trolls effective in forming pro-Putin opinion among youth
Many assume that Russians who turn to the Internet will form very different opinions about Vladimir Putin than…
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine reflects its failure to become a state
Moscow officials frequently suggest that the former Soviet republics are “failed states,” implying that the Russian Federation is…
Crimean Anschluss, the October Revolution of today, will eventually be scorned as such
Vladimir Putin’s illegal occupation and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the first anniversary of which is being marked…
Number of political prisoners in Russia doubled
Since June 2014, the number of political prisoners in Russia has doubled from 92 to 181, according to…
Timothy Snyder: Ukraine is but one aspect of a much larger strategy that threatens European order
In the year since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Russia has done much to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. It annexed Crimea…
Putin’s return dispelled only two of the theories used to explain his disappearance
Vladimir Putin’s disappearance from public view quickly sparked a variety of explanations for his absence; now, his return…
While repressing Crimea’s Muslims, Moscow attempts to manipulate Saudis into more slots for Mecca
Despite its continuing repression of the Crimean Tatars in their Ukrainian peninsula homeland, Moscow has boldly asked Saudi…
Kremlin promoting national pride in place of individual dignity
In scathing terms, Elizaveta Aleksandrova-Zorina denounces the ways in which the Putin regime has promoted Russian national pride…
Moscow has promoted Ukraine’s ‘dismemberment’ since 2004, Kyiv disinformation specialist says
Many who look at Moscow’s propaganda efforts consider only their current state and fail to see the ways…
The only ‘color revolution’ likely in Russia now would be ‘brown’
“The only ‘color revolution,’ which is likely in Russia at the present moment,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, would be…