All Russia is now one big hot spot, regional affairs expert says
Natalya Zubarevich, perhaps Russia’s most prominent specialist on developments in the regions beyond the Moscow Ring Road, says…
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A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the…
Poll results: our readers think Belarus and Ukraine most imperiled by Russia
In 1992-2014 Russia occupied Transnistria region in Moldova, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, annexed Ukraine’s Crimea and…
Two Dictators and Two Responses
For more than two decades, many governments and commentators in the West have allowed themselves to feel morally…
‘Putin is the Bin Laden of today’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Day in History, 2014: UN rejects Russia’s violent attempt to reshape borders
The Assembly underscored that the so-called “referendum” held by the Kremlin-installed authorities in Crimea on March 16 had…
US sanctions on Russia effective, don’t hurt American economy, report finds
A new independent report released on 22 March 2017 shows that US sanctions against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine have…
Putin is getting ready to attack in Ukraine, Shmulyevich says
“Two terrible events in one day” – the murder in Kyiv of former Russian Duma member Denis Voronenkov…
New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and the US Face in Putin’s Russia
By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward…
Former Russian MP Voronenkov, key witness in Yanukovych treason case, assassinated in central Kyiv
UPDATED - Denis Voronenkov, a former member of the Russian Duma who had moved to Kyiv, has been…
Putin’s ‘secret weapon’ against the West – massive illegal cash hordes in foreign countries
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly…
Warning to Russia’s neighbors: Moscow started to undermine Ukraine in Crimea already in 2008
It has become an article of faith that Vladimir Putin acted suddenly in annexing Ukraine’s Crimea that many…
Is military aggression at the heart of Eurovision’s values? Open letter in protest of EBU statement
On 22 March 2017, Ukraine's security service banned entry to Russia's Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova over her performance…
Poll: What country is under danger from Russia the most?
Russia attacked Moldova in 1992 turning its Transnistria region into a puppet "state". In the same year, Russia…
The Kremlin’s five steps towards recognizing “DNR/LNR”
The Kremlin has changed its strategy with regard to the territories controlled by the militants. What are the…
FSB arrest grad student for hanging Ukrainian flag from Moscow University building
The student waved the flag out the window in the direction of a March 18 rally commemorating the…
Imaginary “terrorists” with no terror acts: Russia’s collective punishment of Crimean Muslims
Difference between Russia and Ukraine 21 March is the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.…
With Crimean Anschluss, Putin blocked Maidan from spreading to Russia, Shiropayev says
Even though Vladimir Putin did not take part in the public commemorations of the third anniversary of his…
Three years later: Russia’s suicide by Crimea
As long as Russia maintains its grip on the Ukrainian peninsula, significant changes for the better at home are…
The Crimean Anschluss at three: ‘A jubilee of stupidity and criminality’
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, said more than she perhaps intended when she declared that the…