Putin follows Hitler and Stalin in seeking to repress Jehovah’s Witnesses
In declaring the Jehovah’s Witnesses an extremist organization, Vladimir Putin’s regime is following in the steps of Hitler…
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Indoctrination campaign for kids reveals identity crisis of Kremlin’s proxy “republics” in Donbas
Since 2014, propaganda in the Russian-occupied territories of East Ukraine has been trying to ensure the obedience of…
Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says
No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great…
‘With Crimea, we got Poklonskaya,’ some Russians say in disgust
Some Russians recognize that Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea was simply wrong, others are upset that absorbing the Ukrainian…
Number of Russian citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria up dramatically in last year
The Kavkaz-Uzel portal has just published a detailed, 20,000-word study about people from Russia’s North Caucasus who are…
Striking truckers warn Moscow: ‘Shed our blood and there’ll be a revolution’
Even as Moscow continues to ignore or downplay the size of the long-haul truckers’ strike – with Dmitry…
Liudmyla Hlondar: My brother, hostage in “DNR” for 2 years, says only hope is prayer
What was said at the meetings? Were any concrete decisions made? We’ve been fighting long and hard…
‘Spetsnaz of the USSR’ – the new Russian irregulars in Syria now fighting for Assad
The Syrian military does not have enough personnel to simultaneously launch major attacks, suppress militants, and garrison cities…
‘Why should Russian taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?’
Eight days ago, US Secretary of State posed a rhetorical question to his G-7 counterparts, “Why should US…
Concentration camps for gays? Fake news, claims Russian human rights official
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the…
Moscow reacts to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan switching from Cyrillic with hysterics
Russian reaction to the decisions of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to move away from the Cyrillic-based scripts Moscow imposed…
‘Young Russians love Putin, state ownership and socialism,’ poll finds
The massive participation of young Russians in the March 26 anti-corruption demonstrations led many Russian and Western analysts…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…
West fails to recognize nature and scope of Putin’s hybrid war against it, Eidman says
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says,…
American CITIZENS should care about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Many commentators have now answered US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s question, “Why should US taxpayers be interested…
‘Trump has betrayed Russia to escape impeachment’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russian language use in post-Soviet space declining precipitously
The Euromonitor group, using UN and national data sets, reports that the number of people using Russian in…
Experts say the Kremlin may have been behind the St. Petersburg terrorist acts
The terrorist acts in Saint Petersburg were likely organized by the Russian special services. This is according to…
Behaving badly on big things and small core of Russia’s national strategy under Putin
From making world leaders wait for meetings to mafia-like language from its leaders and diplomats to flouting international…
Putin’s pocket parliament just made it easier for him to falsify presidential election
Yesterday, the Russian State Duma approved on first voting amendments to the law governing presidential elections, including one…