Russia Archives - Page 97 of 267

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Russian MFA publishes private correspondence with France and Germany saying Donbas talks will only happen if everyone agrees with Russia

On 17 November, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly published on its website a document (archived) containing…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Will Russia invade Ukraine? Here is what we know (and what we don’t)

Ukraine is in the middle of another war scare – the second one in just one year. Reports…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial

Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia's most famous human rights organization, accusing it…

byAlya Shandra

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International

The end of the Soviet Man: How ex-USSR states forged their national identities | 30 Years of Freedom, p.3

In 1920, when hopes were high for the creation of an independent Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, and Baltic states,…

byBohdan Ben

Left: Hitler announces the Anschluss of Austria on the Heldenplatz, Vienna, Austria on 15 March 1938. (Image: Wikipedia) Right: Putin speaking in occupied Sevastopol to celebrate 18 March 2014 anschluss of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine conducted by Russian military and special forces. May 9, 2014 (Image: kremlin.ru)

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Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says

Many who hear Vladimir Putin’s most outrageous statements or see his most aggressive actions are inclined to say…

byPaul A. Goble

Tanks of Russia's elite Taman Division shelling the House of Soviets (now known as the White House) where the Supreme Soviet of Russia (its parliament, now known as State Duma) was located at the time. Moscow, October 4, 1993. Photo: TASS

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Newly-elected Russian Duma likely to be the last one way or another, Yakovenko says

There are two reasons for thinking that the new State Duma (Russian parliament) will be the last, Igor…

byPaul A. Goble

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Hybrid War

The Kremlin could instantly end Europe’s gas crisis by restoring transit through Ukraine

Europe is facing an unprecedented surge in natural gas prices, threatening a large-scale energy crisis. The targeted actions…

byCenter for Strategic Communications and Information Security

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To have stable and predictable relations with Russia, US need to strengthen Ukraine

When US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III lands in Kyiv he will find Ukrainian officials which are…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Prisons central to Putin regime and films of torture in them a major political problem

Prisons and even their reputation for brutality are an important support for the Putin regime because Russians do…

byPaul A. Goble

Gold mosaic of the Holy Mother at the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of Iberia of Zugdidi, Georgia. Photo by Giorgi Abdaladze, Communications Department of the Administration of the President of Georgia, via Wikimedia.

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Georgian Church’s recognition of Ukrainian autocephaly ‘only a question of time,’ Horyevoy says

The Georgian Orthodox Church has not yet recognized the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church because it is…

byPaul A. Goble

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GULAGU.Net exposes systemic torture and rape of prisoners in Russia; regime responds with investigations and denial of service attack on portal

The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” - a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has…

byPaul A. Goble

Myth: “In Soviet times, there was friendship of the peoples.” Fact: That is absolutely untrue. In the Soviet Union, inter-ethnic hostility and anti-Semitism were widespread, and the official nationality registered in one’s passport often determined one’s life outcomes. In the military, ethnic groups formed up to defend themselves and attack others. This reflected the fact that “Armenians didn’t like Azerbaijanis, people from the Caucasus tried to subordinate Slavs to themselves, and everyone fraternally disliked Muscovites.”

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‘Friendship of the peoples’ – one of many Soviet myths waiting to be debunked, Mirovich says

Myths about the Soviet past continue to circulate and even to grow, Maxim Mirovich says; but they are…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says

The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…

byPaul A. Goble

Police arresting Putin opposition protesters in Moscow, Russia. May 6, 2012. The rally participants are protesting against Vladimir Putin’s new term as the Russian president. (Image: TASS)

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Russian opposition shows it doesn’t understand situation, Pastukhov says

Since the recent Russian Duma election, some members of the Russian opposition have tied themselves in knots with…

byPaul A. Goble

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The curtain falls on a Russian-OSCE charade in Ukraine

The OSCE had mandated the OM in 2014 to watch the cross-border traffic, which at that time and…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Hungary to continue blocking Ukraine’s NATO membership talks

Gergely Gulyás said it on 29 September at a government briefing, commenting on Ukrainian objections to the Hungarian-Russian…

byYuri Zoria

Putin the TV Puppet Master (Image: Zina Saunders)

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Entire spectrum of Russian propaganda increasingly aggressive in its messaging, Kirillova says

Russian propaganda can be classified into three broad categories, and until recently, only the last contained aggressive messages,…

byPaul A. Goble

A Russian election advertisement in Transnistria, Moldova (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Weak response to Russian Duma elections in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

From the standpoint of international law, these territories belong to Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine, respectively; and their residents…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Annual working-age population growth rates worldwide 2015-2020 (Sources: HSBC, UN Population Division data)

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Latinization of Ukrainian and Belarusian threatens Moscow’s ability to address Russia’s demographic crisis, Khavich says

If Ukraine and Belarus shift from the Cyrillic-based alphabets they now use to Latin scripts, they will not…

byPaul A. Goble

Stalin supervising the signing of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact dividing Poland between Hitler's regime and his own, Aug 23, 1939. From left to right: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (sitting); Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator; Vladimir Pavlov, First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Germany (Image: TASS)

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Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says

In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…

byPaul A. Goble