Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
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Daily review: Russia brings helicopters to Ukraine border; woman hostage tortured with screws through knees
Past 24 hours in the war zone Joint Forces Operation report two attacks by Russian hybrid forces, near…
Daily review: “Difficult” US-Russia talks on “security guarantees,” Germany arrests hero of war against Russia
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO report 2 attacks by Russian-led militants, namely near Popasna, Katerynivka.…
Kazakhstan government used convicts for pogroms preceding Russian-led intervention, Gulagu.net founder says
Kazakhstan has seen protests since 1 January. Rising gas prices became their formal reason. From 5 January, protests…
Not yet occupation, but already intervention. Consequences of Russian troops entering Kazakhstan
On January 6, the first CSTO military units, consisting of mostly Russian troops with assistance from Belarus and…
Indigenous leaders call on nations in Russia to boycott crackdown on protesters in Kazakhstan
Tatar, Bashkir, Erzya and other indigenous leaders in Russia expressed solidarity with the people of Kazakhstan and called…
‘Authoritarian international’ emerging to fight democracy and human rights, Shaburov says
One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by…
Daily review: Russian general who led Crimea occupation heads military mission in Kazakhstan, NATO coordinates position ahead of meeting with Russia
Past 24 hours in the war zone Headquarters report 2 attacks by Russian-backed militants, namely in Luhanske &…
Daily review: Court freezes Poroshenko’s assets; Latvia to send weapons to Ukraine; Christmas in Ukraine
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk,…
Pro-Russian bloc countries announce deployment of troops to Kazakhstan
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), unofficially known as “Russian NATO,” has decided to intervene militarily in Kazakhstan…
Some in Moscow and Nur-Sultan see Kazakhstan becoming ‘another Ukraine’
The Svobodnaya pressa commentator surveys the views of some and provides especially instructive reaction by Yevgeny Valyayev of…
Qarabagh war outcome opens way for Putin to create ‘post-Soviet space 2.0,’ Dubnov says
The most important outcome of the Qarabagh war was not the defeat of Armenia, the victory of Azerbaijan,…
Kazakhstan president lashes out at Russian suggestions Moscow ‘gave’ his republic land
Last month, Vyacheslav Nikonov, head of the Russian Duma’s education and science committee, observed that “the territory of…
Vitaly Portnikov: “The ghost of the Soviet Union was definitively buried in Ukraine in 2014”
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov was forced to resign following a week of protests against the rigged parliamentary elections.…
‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism
Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the…
West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed says
The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current…
New film shows Kazakhs they suffered a Holodomor too, infuriating Moscow
Ever more Kazakhs are revising their views about the early Soviet period when several million of their ancestors…
In post-Soviet countries, ethnic Russians are assimilating to titular nationalities, Kozlov says
Something unprecedented is happening to ethnic Russians in many post-Soviet states, Vladimir Kozlov of Moscow’s Higher School of…
Moscow hides its effort to weaken larger non-Russian nations by playing up its support for smaller ones
Everyone who lived through the end of the Gorbachev era will remember that the Soviet president sought to…
Putin elite can’t retain power and property without another war, Pastukhov says
All of the Kremlin’s recent actions — from a pension reform it didn’t have to carry out now…