New Siberian website provides data on Russification of non-Russians and repression of Russians
At a time when most Russian sites are devoted to promoting an entirely positive image of the Russian…
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Russia’s cap of the Monomakh came not from Constantinople but from Khan Uzbek, Tashkent historian says
The cap of the Monomakh, a symbol for many Russians of Muscovy’s links to Constantinople and thus fundamental…
Russia lacks a state in the normal sense, Polikovsky and Oreshkin say
Russia has never had a state in the normal sense of the term and does not have one…
Ukrainian suggestion that Russia should be called Muscovy infuriates Russians
Even though Russian officials and commentators have felt free to call Ukraine and Ukrainians other names, the suggestion…
Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders
Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…
Two dangerous proposals on Crimea with even more dangerous consequences
Any time a dispute lasts beyond a few weeks, it is almost inevitable that some of those involved…
Being a historian an increasingly dangerous profession in Russia, Agora study says
For more than a century, Russia has been described as a country with an unpredictable past. The authorities…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Like Soviet one, Putin system can’t be reformed, only destroyed and replaced, Inozemtsev says
One of the many debates that riled Western studies of the Soviet Union concerned whether that system could…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Another ‘punished people’ documented – the Kola Norwegians destroyed by Stalin
As the Putin regime takes more steps to hide the crimes of Stalin – it has gotten Interpol…
Russia’s second counter-revolution struggles to commemorate the first
Over the last century, Russia has suffered two revolutions followed by two counter-revolutions, and not surprisingly, its current…
Russia’s ‘special path’ is ‘modernization via catastrophe,’ historian Sergey Medvedev says
Russia today, Sergey Medvedev says, “stands where Russia did at the beginning of the 1990s: before the inevitability…
Inozemtsev: Russian Empire’s special features haven’t disappeared in Russia today
Three specific and even unique characteristics of the Russian Empire in the past have not disappeared in the…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
Putin feels a kinship with Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin “defends Ivan the Terrible and Stalin ‘from excessive demonization’ because unconsciously he feels himself” to share…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The Soviet foundations of Russia’s Great Patriotic War myth
The myth of May 9 The largest myth of the Great Patriotic War is the concept that shifts its…
Since 1945, Moscow has been involved in a military action on average every 2 years
Among the many messages the Kremlin wants Russians to take away from its celebrations of Victory Day is…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…