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…
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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…
The revolution looming in Russia will be more like 1917 than like 1991, Pastukhov says
Twenty years before the Great French Revolution broke out in 1789, Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son that…
Zapad-2017: military games with an unpredictable ending
Just weeks remain until the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad-2017 take place. It is expected that they will be held…
Seeking to avoid another 1991, Kremlin takes a step making that more likely, Galkina says
Arguing that “there is no truer path to the collapse of a system than the hyper-centralization of authority,”…
Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’
A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…
“Russia now has more prostitutes than doctors, farmers and firemen combined” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin era is coming to an end and both he and other Russians recognize that, Moscow sociologist says
On March 1, 1953, Radio Liberty began broadcasting to the Soviet Union in Russian. Its Russian employees wanted…
More than 100 neo-Nazi sites have moved to Russian social networks
After its American internet providers refused to continue to carry it, the American neo-Nazi publication, The Daily Stormer,…
Armenia on its way to becoming ‘a second Ukraine,’ some commentators say
A few days ago, Karine Gevorkyan, a leading Yerevan orientalist, said that Armenia, as a result of the…
Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…
Russians persecuting ethnic Ukrainians and other ethnic groups, leading rights groups say
Russia’s leading human rights groups say that ethnic Russians are now actively discriminating against ethnic Ukrainians even though…
Russian Active Measures Used to Attack Ukrainian Civil Society
Russian special services have been heavily involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. From their officers commanding the…
‘Putin now a sex symbol only for pensioners’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The Kremlin’s new preoccupation: how to get out of the Donbas
"Military force will not solve the problems of the Donbas." These words by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
Korean crisis seen opening a way for new Trump-Putin rapprochement
Short of war, the largest fallout from the intensifying Korean crisis is likely to be a new rapprochement…
Youth gangs increasingly terrorizing Russian regions
Despite the Putin regime’s massive police presence – Russia now has more police per capita than any other…
Ukrainians turning away from Russia not only politically but culturally
To no one’s surprise, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine has alienated Ukrainians politically from the former imperial center; but…
More than 20 Russian regions now at third world levels economically
According to official statistics, approximately every fourth subject of the Russian Federation has a GDP per capita that…
North Caucasus republics could flourish on their own, Israeli political analyst says
Even people who accept that the North Caucasus is a Russian colony often argue that the republics of…