Russian “perfect storm”: oil at $25, ruble at 125, inflation at 30%
Vladislav Zhukovsky, an economist known for predicting disasters in the Russian economy and for then turning out to…
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Apocalyptic Russian nationalist utopias of today parallel their pre-1917 antecedents
In the last years of the Russian Empire, Russian conservatives composed numerous utopias in which “the Russian World…
Putin regime can’t be reformed, only replaced, like its Soviet predecessor, Yakovenko says
For several decades before the demise of the Soviet Union, there was an intense debate among both Russian…
Putin teaches geography: ‘All the former USSR is Russia’
The 150-minute film “The President” about Vladimir Putin is mostly boring and predictable in that it insists that…
Leningrad governor attacks Finno-Ugric groups as threats to Russia’s territorial integrity
Leningrad Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko says the Izhors, a Finno-Ugric group numbering 26,000, and the supporters of a largely…
Putin has destroyed any possible basis for unity on ‘post-Soviet space’
By his bombast and aggression, Vladimir Putin has destroyed “what was even a year ago called the post-Soviet…
Moscow analyst: War in Donbas marks ‘the irreversible and absolute end of the era of Russian empires’
The chauvinism Russia’s war against Ukraine has unleashed is becoming the grave digger of imperial consciousness among Russians,…
Putin calls a Security Council meeting regarding the topic of Russia’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity”
21 July 2014 The Russian security council intends to discuss issues dealing with the territorial integrity of the…