Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change
Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower…
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The Russian war against Ukraine by the numbers
There is no “Ukrainian crisis,” as so many in Moscow and the West continue to say; there is…
“Poisoning” by headlines: how Russian disinformation keeps spreading
Several Russian-language outlets reported that visitors of the “Green Day” festival in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky (Kherson…
Political murders will continue in Russia because they are useful to Putin, Feygin says
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to…
Russia considering introducing Islamic banking to get around Western sanctions
Facing ever greater difficulty in raising money in the West because of sanctions and calls by its own…
’14 million Russians don’t have enough money even for food’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
8 reasons why Russian Communism and Russian Orthodoxy are so interchangeable
Many people are surprised and others are alarmed that Russian Orthodoxy and Communism are so “easily interchangeable,” but…
Meaningfully deterring Russia is NATO’s best option for European security
In Western official discourse, NATO-Russia relations are often analyzed by wishful thinking rather than by accepting realities. It…
The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
For Moscow, the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols which divided Eastern Europe between Hitler and Stalin…
Putin aide: Few in Kremlin expected US-Russian relations to deteriorate after Trump election
Yury Ushakov, an assistant to Vladimir Putin, told the Primakov forum this week that few in the Kremlin…
Everything you need to know about the massive Petya cyberattack which started from Ukraine
Read our live updates of 27 June about the cyber attack: Ukrainian banks, enterprises, media and energy companies under…
No more VPNs: Kremlin mulls limiting anonymising software
The greatest challenges to government-sponsored disinformation campaigns are strong independent media and critical debates among members of civil…
‘Stalin’s second coming will require victims,’ Moscow paper says
Stalin is enjoying a rebirth in the Russian Federation, one that enjoys the support of the population, according…
Russia earned 3 trillion US dollars from petroleum and stashed abroad over half of that, OilStat analysts say
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since…
No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places
The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…
Whistleblower shares insights on workings of Russian state-controlled media
According to Mr Skorobutov, the management put pressure on him not to report an alleged attack by a…
Moscow’s plans to cut military pensions seen driving military retirees to back opposition
The first rule of any government is that the state pays the people with guns charged with protecting…
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…
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…