Nationalism and fascism in contemporary Russia
Today’s reality is that fascism, Nazism and patriotism in contemporary Russian society are now one and the same.…
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Greek left-wing SYRIZA forms coalition with pro-Kremlin far right
After a landslide victory in the early parliamentary elections held on 25 January 2015, the Greek Coalition of…
Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ prompts Belarus to redefine ‘invasion’
Because both Vladimir Putin and the West have tried, albeit for radically different reasons, to avoid saying that…
Putin’s war in Ukraine keeps Moscow from addressing Cossack genocide of 1920s
Ninety-six years ago this weekend, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a…
The fear and rage of Vladimir Putin
In light of the mass renewals of combat in he east of Ukraine, the retreat of military units…
Ex-terrorist leader: “Referendum in Crimea was a farce”
Igor Girkin, ex-minister of defense of the so-called Donetsk Republic, who fled Donetsk in August of 2014, when…
Russian journalist: Putin will demand the impossible by ignoring objective reality
The first impulse of Western leaders whenever there is a crisis is to seek negotiations on the principle…
Moscow commentator: Putin now has his storm troopers and pogroms will surely follow
Putin’s Russia has crossed a Rubicon: it now has sanctioned the Anti-Maidan Movement, a domestic version of Hitler’s…
Church of Satan condemns Putin
Although Vladimir Putin is often portrayed by the most extreme of his critics as “the beast” or “antichrist”,…
Russian philosopher: Russia today has ‘nationalism without a nation’
“Post-Soviet Russian nationalism has been fatally flawed from the outset because it arose not from the word ‘nation’…
Moscow agrees to try Gyumri killer in Armenia but in a Russian court
Fearful that Armenian anger could lead to a break with Moscow or even spark an orange-style revolution in…
Russian analyst Illarionov discusses Putin’s plans for Ukraine
Translated text of report by Lithuanian news website Delfi from 16 January 2015 Andrey Illarionov, former adviser to Russian…
Russian Interior Ministry wants to restore Stalin-style ‘Troikas’ to speed up ‘justice’
The Russian interior ministry wants to revive the troikas Stalin used to conduct the purges in the 1930s…
Six reasons why Putin has stepped up Russian aggression in Ukraine now
Since Moscow’s Anschluss of Crimea almost a year ago, many in Russia, Ukraine and the West have asked…
Petro Poroshenko: the frontline to defend European values is in Ukraine
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko participated in a conference at the University of Zurich on 19 January 2015, on…
Analysis: ‘Putin isn’t a politician. He’s a spy and a provocateur’
Russia, the 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev reminded the world, cannot be measured by “an ordinary yardstick.”…
Gyumri events in Armenia could spark a new war over Karabakh
The murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri by a Russian soldier and the failure of Yerevan to…
Alfred Koch: Putin’s rejection of science and fear of the educated destroying Russia’s future
Vladimir Putin “understands that the threat to his regime is to be found among the thinking and educated”…
Igor Eidman: Putin became a fascist-style leader in mid-2014
Some object to the application of the term “fascist” to Vladimir Putin and his regime because he was…
Expert: Looming ethnic conflicts in Russia will be ‘more devastating’ than in Europe
The looming decline in the number of Russian births, the increase in emigration, and the rise in the…