Russia stands behind “DNR” leader’s order to confiscate food crops, echoing Stalin’s Holodomor
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian client statelet, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, has called for the…
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“DNR leader” Zakharchenko orders confiscation of local crops
The text of this “Order” dated Novemeber 3, 2017 has been published on the “DNR” website. “Cereals and…
Russian info war against US, far broader than last year’s elections, an act of terrorism, Latynina says
Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again acceptance of Vladimir Putin’s claim that Moscow didn’t interfere in the 2016 US presidential…
Failure of Kremlin’s ‘Trump is Ours’ plan leading it to rethink Ukraine policy, Piontkovsky says
The failure of Vladimir Putin to get a sit down with Donald Trump represents “the agony of [the…
US, China have more in common than either has with Russia, regardless of leader’s feelings, Shelin says
However much Moscow suggests otherwise and however much inertia still leads others to share its conclusions, the United…
US, EU actions on Russia a remake of what brought the much stronger USSR to its end, Yakovenko says
The almost certain approval of a US defense budget that will provide assistance to Ukraine, including lethal arms,…
German DHL continues to operate in occupied Crimea
The German logistics company DHL continues to operate through so-called “partner service points” in Kerch, Sevastopol and Simferopol…
Russia’s second counter-revolution struggles to commemorate the first
Over the last century, Russia has suffered two revolutions followed by two counter-revolutions, and not surprisingly, its current…
Five disturbing Russian developments in danger of being overshadowed by 1917 anniversary
All governments schedule their announcements to achieve maximum benefit for themselves, trumpeting things they are proud of at…
The October Revolution: what it means for Ukrainians
A Russian thinks not of himself but of the power of the state that can conquer and humiliate…
Russia’s ‘special path’ is ‘modernization via catastrophe,’ historian Sergey Medvedev says
Russia today, Sergey Medvedev says, “stands where Russia did at the beginning of the 1990s: before the inevitability…
Ukrainian nation disappearing in Russia, Kyiv ethnographer says
The once large Ukrainian nation within the borders of what is now the Russian Federation is rapidly disappearing,…
Volunteer Mariya Berlinska’s outraged cry: “And when they come for us…
… Everything’s very clear... we all know what really happened. (On June 1, 2017, Amina Okueva and her…
The Kremlin’s Bulgarian game
During an official visit to Warsaw in early October, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev called to lift EU sanctions against Russia, which…
Russia “using Serbia to destroy Europe,” Ukraine’s Ambassador says
“Serbia is not doing enough to solve this issue,” Ukraine’s ambassador to Serbia, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, says, of the…
“LNR” admits to threat of rebellion due to high unemployment in occupied Luhansk
Occupied Alchevsk used to be the industrial centre of Luhansk Oblast, but is now almost totally abandoned by…
Russian “siloviki” oversee power vertical of occupied Donbas
Russia controls the situation in its proxy state in eastern Ukraine, the "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DNR") via Russian-established law enforcement…
“Russia Now Leading Source of ISIS Fighters” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Does Sobchak have a winning message for Russia beyond Moscow’s Ring Road?
Kseniya Sobchak has made her first foray outside of Moscow, a step that appears almost obligatory these days,…
Russian liberals attack current regime but defend foundation of regime as such, Birna says
One of the fundamental weaknesses of liberal Russian thought and behavior, Irina Birna says, is Russian liberals are…