FSB threatens pro-Ukrainian Russians with unemployment
In what is likely part of a broader pattern, FSB officers in several cities in the Urals have…
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Lukashenko kicks the wounded lion
At the meeting on economic issues on December 18, Alexandr Lukashenka demanded that the government of Belarus calculated…
Russian special services planned terrorist attack in central Kyiv
On December 19, members of the Ukrainian SBU have arrested a suspected saboteur in central Kyiv that, acting…
Ukraine enjoyed seeing Putin flustered
What matters is not what the Russian President said but how he did it. In this light, non-faction…
Putin’s reaction to Sobchak’s question: why did you let her speak?
During the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summary press conference, TV host and TVRain journalist Kseniya Sobchak asked him…
Medvedev wears platform boots to a meeting with the President of Kazakhstan
The Russian Prime Minister awed the Kazakh press. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who may be fired from…
Russia: the ruble crashes
The Russian Central Bank increased the key rate from 10,5 to 17 percent per annum on December 16.…
Putin’s strongman in Chechya to fight Ukrainians in Donbas
The head of Putin's administration in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, intends to ask the president of Russia to let…
PACE siding with Russia, bans Ukraine war exhibition. PHOTOS
PACE President Anne Brasseur has prohibited a display of a Ukrainian photo exhibition titled "Donbas: War and Peace" during the…
Was Russia’s economic miracle real?
The multi-year increase in the price of oil has created the illusion of an economic miracle in Russia.…
Petroleum transport operators of Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Belarus want to create their own association
On December 11, 2014, AK Transneft OJSC, Transpetrol (Slovakia), Gomeltransneft Druzhba (Belarus), Przyjaźń (Poland), MOL (Hungary), and MERO…
Russia and the West: who is more moral?
“Russia… is a country which strives to build a fair society based foremost on moral values,” said Vladimir…
Support Ukrainian political prisoners illegally held in Russia, write a letter!
Support Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia by joining the Annual Global Letter Writing Marathon of Amnesty International Ukraine.…
Putin wants a ‘New Munich’ on Ukraine but may not get it, Butakov says
The Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, as some have forgotten, was a compromise between what…
Activists waited for victims of Putin’s regime at arrival of Russian flight in Prague
Activists in Prague's airport held 10 signs with the names of people that died or seriously suffered from…
Belarus reinstates customs inspections at Russian border
Belarus, after being accused by Russia of re-exporting banned products, has reinstated customs checkpoints at the Russian-Belarusian border…
22 days inside the “Donetsk Republic:” a Russian volunteer militant’s story
Drafted in Russia's Rostov-on-Don At the militia's rally point in Rostov on Don, in Russia, hangs a boxing…
Dalia Grybauskaite: no need for Western leaders to deal with Putin directly
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin until…
Gazprom head: Zero gas through Ukraine
Miller described Russia's new strategy for gas market. The head of the Russian company Gazprom in an interview…
Ukraine and Putin: the aggressor’s bad luck
Vladimir Putin managed to accomplish everything before December 1, 2014. Since the moment of Crimea’s annexation in March,…