Kremlin telling Russians to face falling living standards for years to come, Shelin says
“For the first time in the 21st century, the [Russian] regime is seeking to accustom its citizens to…
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A rare Russian glimpse of fate of Vlasovites forcibly returned to the USSR
There are many Stalinist crimes Russian writers either pass over in silence or minimize, but one that is…
FSB seeking to block or control all links between Russians and emigration, Melikhov says
Like the KGB in Soviet times, the Russian FSB is seeking to block or take control of any…
‘If a bourgeois revolution is to start in Russia, it will begin with Tatarstan,’ Kazan historian says
Just as jadidist writers like Yosef Akchura played a key role in elaborating “the Tatar model” that became…
FIFA said investigating Russian soccer team for doping, putting 2018 World Cup at risk
A British newspaper is reporting that FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, is now investigating all the…
Crimean Tatar activist Zair Smedlyaev: “Russian guests” massively replace indigenous population of Crimea
Zair Smedlyaev, head of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar People, talks about how the Russian…
10-dollar Putin icons and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Is a Russian Oliver Stone going to make a movie about Donald Trump?
Vladimir Surin, director of the Moscow Center for the Study of Socially Significant Problems, says a Russian film…
Belarus not threatened by a Ukrainian scenario: It has its own ‘little green men,’ Ukrainian analyst says
Belarus is not currently threatened by a Russian action like the one Moscow has carried out in Ukraine…
Putin regime now ‘one grandiose fake’ from top to bottom, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s use of a video showing American planes to impress Oliver Stone of the power of Russian…
Kremlin agents seeking to reduce part of Kazakhs to a Russian-speaking sub-ethnos of the Russian nation, Gali says
The Russian government has set up a network of agents in Kazakhstan in order to undermine that country’s…
Russia’s long-haul truckers add a political dimension to strike against Plato system
The long-haul truckers, who have been striking against the Plato fee system, have decided to extend their action…
A century of Russian revolts against Soviet power
In 1974, Russian émigré journalist Yuri Srechinsky reacted with horror to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s suggestion in his GULAG Archipelago…
Human sacrifices for the Kremlin’s propaganda machine: meet the “Crimean saboteurs”
“Not a single Ukrainian citizen has suffered here [since 2014], there are absolutely no restrictions, and the attitude…
Ukraine ramps up fight against Russia’s hybrid war
Hybrid war has been a buzzword surrounding Ukraine for more than three years. But the country has dealt…
Russian regions in deep trouble: in most, only one household in five has money for more than food
Despite Putin’s upbeat comments, Russians living in the regions are even in the most successful case balance at…
Russian Guard’s aspirations open the way to mass repressions, Stanovaya says
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says.…
Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says
The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's leading opposition figures, is coming to a…
Profound contraction of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics since 1989
The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen…
Demographic decline powering rise of dedovshchina in Russian and Belarusian armies
Dedovshchina, the Russian term for the mistreatment of more recent draftees and recruits by their seniors or of…