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Crimea – not sanctions – real harbinger of demise of Russian Federation, Telegram channel says
A compelling argument can be made that the Soviet Union died when it did and not much later…
UK exhibition on 1917 Revolution puts Ukraine’s Leninfall in the spotlight
Many events worldwide are commemorating the centenary of the Russian revolution of 1917. Most are funded by the…
Can America look to Ukraine for guidance on their growing monument problem?
For Americans in light of the Charlottesville events, Ukraine is a world away. Right now it has been…
The real clash of civilizations: Last Lenin comes down in Kyiv as Stalin cult rises in Moscow
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation…
Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact revisited, Part 1: The interwar prelude
More than we think, Soviet propaganda has influenced the way in which many see World War II. This…
![A "Pussy for Putin": In 2010, 17-year old Alisa Kharcheva in a group with other 11 students and would-be students of Moscow State University starred in an erotic calendar for Putin's 58th birthday as Miss April. In 2012, Kharcheva posted these photographs with a cat and Putin portraits in a personal blog post entitled "Pussy for Putin." Then she sent a formal notice to Putin’s office and posted her phone number on her LiveJournal entry just in case. “Until Vladimir Vladimirovich decides to pick up his [birthday] gift, the kitty will live with me,” she wrote. According to Reuters, in 2015, a business associate of Arkady Rotenberg, a close friend of Putin, transferred into her possession an apartment in a smart gated complex in a desirable part of Moscow. She was 23 at the time. (Image: Alisa Kharcheva)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Kharcheva_0411.jpg)
Why did Putin say Russia’s prostitutes were ‘best in the world’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Stalin starved populations to death to russify Ukraine, North Caucasus and Kazakhstan, statistics show
Today, Ukrainians and people of good will around the world will mark the Day in Memory of the…
Lenin statues to stand in Russia, but to fall in its successor states, Shtepa says
Sometimes a brief Facebook post can say in brief compass more than an extended discourse of article or…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
Putin’s Fixes and Fixations: Russia’s President Prefers Stalin to Lenin, Soviet History to Scandals
The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable…
Why the Guardian is wrong, and Soviet monuments should not be protected
In light of recent events in Kharkiv, Agata Pyzik of the Guardian took the task of explaining why…
Monument’s destruction marks end of Soviet era and Kharkiv mayor
The toppling of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in the former capital of Soviet Ukraine should mark the…
Kharkiv says good bye to largest Lenin statue in Ukraine
On September 28, the largest Lenin monument in Ukraine located in Kharkiv, the predominantly Russian-speaking industrial Eastern Ukrainian…