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Ukrainian Defense Minister: Prigozhin’s death shows Putin cannot be trusted
The assassination of Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin proves that Russian President Vladimir Putin should not be negotiated…
How Russia justifies the murder of Ukrainians: Russia’s 2022 “genocide handbook” deconstructed
Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder called the Russian infamous declaration “What Russia should do to Ukraine” published on 3 April 2022 a “genocide handbook”. The text justifies the Russian murder of Ukrainians and the destruction of the Ukrainian nation, testifying an intent to destroy a specific group, which falls under the legal definition of genocide.
Moscow issues slide show for Russian schools to teach pupils to hate Ukraine
Given the viciousness of Russian state propaganda about Ukraine, it is no surprise that this would gradually affect…
Putin’s war on Ukraine has devastating consequences for Russia, Russian analyst says
Vladimir Putin made five strategic mistakes that led him to his broadening of his war on Ukraine [The…
Russia’s war against Ukraine isn’t a “real” war, most Russians think
Russians are against war, something they understand as a major war involving the West; but with regard to…
Protests against war in Ukraine spread across Russia
As is invariably the case, anti-war actions in Moscow have attracted the most attention not only because of…
For human rights, 2021 ‘worst year in history of post-Soviet Russia,’ Davidis says
Sergey Davidis, a specialist on political prisoners at the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, says that 2021…
![Vladimir Putin's wrestling coach, the person who reportedly helped him get admitted to the Leningrad State University using his connections, was one of the city's top criminals, had served 20 years in prison, and died in a gang battle at 57. Putin admiringly wrote about him in his memoirs called "From the First Person" without using the coach's surname or mentioning his criminal links (for obvious reasons). As the engraving on his grave stone states, the coach Leonid Ionovich Usvyatsov composed the epitaphs himself. [Translator: Please note that in the original Russian the epitaphs crudely rhyme, but the translation did not attempt to reproduce rhyming prioritizing accuracy instead.] The epitaph on the front panel says: "A grave and on the grave there is an epitaph: 'I am dead, but mafia is immortal.'" The back panel is engraved with the following epitaphs: "Hooray! I finally died!!! All of my life I worked for broads like a slave. Now I won't spend a kopeck on this liver sausage anymore." "I gave her my two final bangs and then was carried away on a hearse." "Let's drink to us all, because the curtain will soon fall." (Image: openrussia.org)](https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/4bbcb9a683811.gif)
Fusion of state and criminal world in Russia even more dangerous than absence of democracy, Pastukhov says
Russia has only rarely been a democracy and certainly is not one now, Vladimir Pastukhov says; but the…
Opposition to QR Codes in Russia far broader and more political than to vaccines, Kagarlitsky says
Russian opposition to the recent introduction of personal QR codes to identify individuals, control their movement and check…
In new film, Putin promises ‘no mercy’ to those who ‘cooperated with West’ in destruction of USSR, Kolerov says
In a new documentary film about Russia in the 1990s presented by the Russian state television, Vladimir Putin…
Kremlin refuses to see ‘Russians are tired of empire’ and so is on a suicidal path, Tsipko says
Vladimir Putin and his regime continue to try to blame Gorbachev or the West for the demise of…
Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous
Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…
Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…
The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…
Newly-elected Russian Duma likely to be the last one way or another, Yakovenko says
There are two reasons for thinking that the new State Duma (Russian parliament) will be the last, Igor…
For Russia’s rulers, war now a defining ‘principle of reality,’ Pavlovsky says
For the 30 years of the existence of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin has increasingly gotten involved in…
Prisons central to Putin regime and films of torture in them a major political problem
Prisons and even their reputation for brutality are an important support for the Putin regime because Russians do…
GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal
The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” – a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has…
Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says
The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…