Kremlin ‘road-tested’ repressive measures on LGBTs before applying them more broadly, Khots says
Like many dictators before him and just as Pastor Niemoeller warned, Vladimir Putin tested various repressive measures on…
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‘UN: Human Rights in Crimea Have Deteriorated Since Occupation’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Crimea suffering from ‘East German Syndrome,’ Moscow scholar says
There have been almost as many premature deaths in Crimea as a result of rapidly rising mortality rates…
Moscow, not Kyiv, behind ethnocide of ethnic Russians in Ukraine, Yakovenko says
The Russian Duma has declared that Kyiv’s decision to make Ukrainian the language of instruction in Ukrainian schools…
Experts weigh in on Ukraine’s hotly debated new minority language policy
On 28 September 2017, Ukraine's new law on education entered into force. Called to advance Ukraine's badly needed…
Beware – This Film Was Made by the West to Destabilise Russia!
Most recently, we learned that comedy movies can be a “planned provocation” and part of a western plot…
UN report condemns Russia over human rights abuses in occupied Crimea
"We have documented reliable allegations of serious human rights violations and abuses, committed by a paramilitary formation, the…
‘Russian Banking System on Brink of Collapse’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia set to cut funding of proxy “republics” in Donbas in favor of Crimea – media
The Russian government intends to stop the "humanitarian assistance to certain territories" in favor of financing projects in…
“March for Peace” against Russia’s war with Ukraine held in St. Petersburg
On 24 September 2017, from 200 to 400 people in Russia's St.Petersburg held a March for Peace protesting, first of…
FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say
The Zapad-2017 military exercise has ended “without the annexation of Belarus, a new round of aggression against Ukraine,…
Struggle for Belarus: Minsk is promoting Belarusianization; Moscow, re-Sovietization
Minsk is promoting the Belarusianization of Belarus while Moscow is pushing its re-Sovietization. But because both are being…
Who is Putin’s candidate of choice in the Bundestag?
The elections for the Bundestag, the German parliament, are approaching and Moscow's attempts to influence the outcome of the…
Ukrainian President repeats call for peacekeepers to Donbas at UN Security Council
Poroshenko stressed that there is undeniable proof of Russian involvement in the conflict as he showed the military…
“Russia tries to exchange peace in Ukraine for Ukraine’s freedom” – President Poroshenko at UN
A UN reform is needed A comprehensive reform of the Security Council is long overdue. When the UN was…
Lithuania’s President: UN must rise up against Russia’s abuse or face irrelevance
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, The topic of this year's debate invites to focus on people and our…
Can Forrest Gump defeat Russian propaganda in Belarus?
Sometimes the simultaneous appearance of two stories apparently unrelated sheds light on issues more clearly than either of…
Russia putting historic Crimean landmarks in danger
Ukraine’s Ministry of Temporary Occupied Territories has appealed to UNESCO for help in resolving the situation. The Swallow’s…
‘Putin’s aggression in Ukraine: 35,000 killed and wounded’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Repression of Muslims in Crimea – a reflection of Moscow’s fear of Islam as an anti-colonial force
Zair Smedlyayev, a Crimean Tatar activist, and Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD)…