Kazakhstan’s secret services harass activists in Ukraine, Russian political refugee says
Aleksey’s story is quite interesting. A businessman from Nizhny Novgorod, he became actively involved in a Russian protest…
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Stalin frequently modified Russia’s borders, adding and subtracting territory, Butakov says
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were…
‘If Kazakhstan and Russia suddenly ceased to be allies…’
Very public differences between Moscow and Astana and Kazakhstan’s increasingly close relations with the United States have prompted…
More than half of all non-Kazakhs in Kazakhstan now speak Kazakh, Astana says
Artystanbek Mukhamediuly, Kazakhtan’s culture and sports minister, says that 83.1 percent of the population of his country now…
‘Ukrainian-Language Samizdat Appears in Russia-Occupied Crimea’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
“Ever More Russians Fleeing Moscow’s Oppression for Ukraine” and other neglected Russian news
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Northern Kazakhstan likely to be Putin’s next target for aggression
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received…
Ukraine suffered the most deaths in the Holodomor, while Kazakhstan had the highest percentage loss of population
Experts at the Kyiv Institute of Demography say that Ukrainians suffered the greatest number of excess deaths as…
‘Desperate Pensioner Asks Putin to Send Him a Coffin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russian Security Agencies Said Increasing Recruitment of Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russia Disappearing from Radar Screen of Young Ukrainians’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘UN: Human Rights in Crimea Have Deteriorated Since Occupation’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russian Banking System on Brink of Collapse’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Putin’s aggression in Ukraine: 35,000 killed and wounded’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘For Putin’s Visit, Perm Becomes Ultimate Potemkin Village’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…
Profound contraction of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics since 1989
The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen…
Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…
“Putin backers to ‘bare their breasts’ for Kremlin leader” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Would shift to Latin script liberate Ukrainian or destroy it?
Even though Ukrainian has a stronger historical claim to the Cyrillic alphabet than does Russian and even though…