Russia blocks Ukraine’s peacekeeping proposals
Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin stated that no one in the UN Security Council supported the…
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‘For Putin’s Visit, Perm Becomes Ultimate Potemkin Village’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow analyst: Russia has made North Korea’s rocket program possible
In two articles published online this week, Moscow analyst Aleksandr Nemets details the evidence many have assembled showing…
Russian FSB accuses Ukrainian teen it abducted of “terrorism”
Russia's FSB has confirmed that the Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb, who went missing in Belarus on 24 August…
Russian fears about China’s aspirations east of the Urals on the rise
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing and Siberia has generated widespread attention to what Moscow may do to try…
Ukrainian Berkut police suspected of Euromaidan massacre now in Russia’s service?
On 20 February 2014, 48 participants of Ukraine's pro-western Euromaidan protests were shot by the Berkut riot police. Shortly after,…
Russian political refugees find new home in Kyiv
Evacuation from totalitarian Russia. This is how the Bubeyev family from Tver refer to their journey to Kyiv.…
A man of one heroic act. Remembering the death of Russian opposition journalist Shchetinin in Ukraine
One year ago, the Russian opposition journalist Alexander Shchetinin was found dead with a gunshot wound in Kyiv.…
Initiatives to counter disinformation spring up in the Russian language
Prominent Russian sociologist and dissident Igor Eidman has started a new Facebook group to “counter Kremlin propaganda” in…
Moscow’s private military companies continue to be a serious threat in Ukraine
Well-paid private military companies are an increasingly important component of Moscow’s strategy in the Donbas and elsewhere providing…
Putin suddenly wants armed peacekeepers in Donbas. Why now? What for?
Having ignored all previous Ukrainian proposals to deploy UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, Putin now claims that Russia…
‘Kim Jong Un guarded by former KGB officers’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Donbas in Gorky Park’ – Moscow’s violence in Ukraine is coming back to haunt Russia
The violence Moscow “exported” to Ukraine and other parts of what the Kremlin claims are parts of “the…
Russian-speaking Belarusians and Ukrainians threaten Putin’s ‘Russian world’ and Russia itself
Most commentaries on Belarus and Ukraine suggest that the relatively large Russian-speaking populations in these two countries are…
Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US
Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…
Military expert Starykov: Zapad-2017 war games in Belarus designed to demonstrate Russia’s military power
“The Vienna Document stipulates that there cannot be more than 12,000 troops participating in military exercises, but there…
‘Russians increasingly looking beyond Putin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Unique 1919-1920 map of Ukraine exhibited in Prague
The exhibition titled “The Refugee Experience: The Fate of Refugees from the Territory of the Former Russian Empire…
SWIFT software producer stops working with two Russian banks
Finastra, a company which owns the software used for SWIFT banking transactions, has ceased cooperation with Russian banks…
Three ways Kremlin contributing to Russia’s demographic crisis
Most analysts in Russia and the West argue that changes in the size of the prime child-bearing cohort…