Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Russia, other former Soviet republics persecuting Christians, new Notre Dame report says Vladimir Putin has proudly claimed and all too many in the West accept at face value that he… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Putin follows Hitler and Stalin in seeking to repress Jehovah’s Witnesses In declaring the Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization, Vladimir Putin’s regime is following in the steps of Hitler… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read Opinion Russian Aggression Putin leading Russia ever more rapidly to fascism and the world to war, Israeli analyst says Vladimir Putin is leading Russia toward fascism at an ever accelerating rate, the result, Israeli analyst Avraam Shmulyevich… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Crimea International More Occupied Crimea is Moscow’s test laboratory for repressions, Stelmakh says Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More Putin changing nature of Russian nation and alienating many who had been part of it, Shtepa says Finland’s Marshal Mannerheim offers a distant mirror of the evolution of identity that Vladimir Putin is again causing… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Ukraine 74 years after Hitler’s invasion, Russia — not Ukraine — moving toward fascism, Inozemtsev says Seventy-four years ago today, Hitler turned on his ally Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, an action that… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read International Russia The only ‘color revolution’ likely in Russia now would be ‘brown’ “The only ‘color revolution,’ which is likely in Russia at the present moment,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, would be… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Political analyst: Putin’s Russia is already ‘a classic fascist state’ Fascism is no longer a threat in Russia, Vitaly Portnikov says; rather, it is “an accomplished fact,” the… byPaul A. Goble