History repeats in Russia as FSB raids human rights activist from KGB-repressed family
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai…
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From CIA archives: Stepan Bandera’s 1954 interview to German radio
On 17 January 2017, the CIA declassified more than 930,000 documents from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) system…
Russian forces using Hamas-style terrorist tactics in Ukraine, Portnikov says
Russian forces in Ukraine are now using one of the most beloved tactics of terrorist groups like the…
Putin regime raised political police above all other force structures, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
The Kremlin has “often put the E Center” – the informal name of the MVD’s Anti-Extremism Center –…
Putin’s remarks about Russian prostitutes say more about him than about Trump, Orlova says
Many in the US have seen Vladimir Putin’s talk about media reports concerning Donald Trump and Russian prostitutes…
Putin’s special operations achieve a second and larger victory when they are exposed
Many in the US and elsewhere are horrified by Vladimir Putin’s overt and covert efforts to affect the…
The Splendors and Miseries of Russian special services
Because of the spying allegations raging around the US election, many seem to think that the Russian special…
Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
Putin returning Russia ‘not to Soviet but to Stalinist’ state security system, Felgenhauer says
Reports that Vladimir Putin wants to create a single security agency in place of the plethora of such…
Putinism represents triumph of ‘feudal traditionalist reaction,’ Skobov says
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
Lustration in Finland? Explaining the issue
Lustration was and is widely carried out in the former Eastern bloc countries. Recently, Finland made its first…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
‘What do French prostitutes, Kremlin media and Duma deputies have in common?’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
USSR dead? Not in Russia-occupied Crimea!
Did you ever think of what basic reason drives some people in Russia-occupied Crimea to support Putin? No,…
How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?
One of the results of the Maidan is the transfer of the KGB archives to the National Memory…
What Russia’s opposition can learn from a Soviet dissident from Ukraine
I once had the good fortune to meet Yakov Osmolovsky, a Soviet dissident from Ukraine whose fate brought…
Ukraine prepares to make Soviet KGB archives available online
For almost a year since the “decommunization laws” have entered into force, all the documents of repressive Soviet…
By taking over state archives, Putin makes a serious error
Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view…