Daily review: TikTok comments sheds light on Russian army moves, Izolyatsiya torturer flees to France, Russia downscales NATO demands
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO report no attacks/shelling by Russian occupation forces. As of 19:30…
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Russia downscales demands to keeping Ukraine, Georgia out of NATO
Commenting on the negotiation process with the US, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia was ready…
Daily review: Germany keeps blocking arms exports to Ukraine; Russia moves troops to Belarus; another false-flag warning
Past 24 hours in the war zone JFO reported one attack by Russian hybrid forces near Pisky, Donetsk…
New Russian aggression in Ukraine will lead not just to sanctions but to a new Iron Curtain, Skobov says
Moscow commentators and presumably the Kremlin, Aleksandr Skobov says, are suggesting that the West has already capitulated to…
EU, US drop idea of cutting Russia off from SWIFT, prepare other sanctions – media
The United States and the European Union are no longer considering disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT international payment…
Russia-West talks have ended in uncertainty. Now it’s time to act.
Last week, the international community anxiously observed Russia’s sessions with various Western representatives. Over the span of four…
Russia seeks to maintain its global status by making threats and keeping others off guard, Shevtsova says
Russia is “attempting to maintain its global role with military threats to undermine the status quo at any…
For four reasons, Russian economy on the brink of panic, Shelin says
For four reasons, the Russian economy is on the brink of panic, something that threatens stock prices, ruble…
Russian troop strength in North Caucasus same as at peak of Russo-Circassian War, Beshto says
Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russo-Circassian War (1763-1864) ended, and despite all the…
Daily review: little agreement at NATO-Russia talks; 80 Ukrainian soldiers perished in 2021; Day of Political Prisoner
Past 24 hours in the war zone Ukraine's JFO command reported one attack by Russian-hybrid forces on Ukrainian…
NATO and Russia agreed to talk more at Brussels talks
Read also: 58% Ukrainians support joining EU, 54% in favor of NATO, IRI Ukraine poll finds NATO Secretary-General…
Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says
The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…
‘Authoritarian international’ emerging to fight democracy and human rights, Shaburov says
One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by…
Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous
Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…
Italy arrests Ukrainian theater director on demand of Russia in “fabricated” case
On 17 December 2021, Naples law enforcement officers arrested 39-year-old Yevhen Lavrenchuk, a Ukrainian theater director and ,…
Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…
Three-fourths of Ukrainians oppose Minsk accords in current form, poll shows
The accords were supposed to stop the fighting in eastern Ukraine, but several paragraphs of the documents turned…