The Unsung Lament: Russian Atrocities in Caucasus
“Russian Tsars attack a small people with millions of soldiers and they consider themselves noble.” Kube Şaban, Circassian…
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The American style of identity Moscow fears to seek for Russians
Those in Moscow who want Russians and non-Russians within the borders of the Russian Federation to give up…
Russia fell apart when its leaders overrated its strength and that could happen again, Inozemtsev says
Twice in the last “long century,” Russia has fallen apart because its leaders overrated the strength of their…
The West didn’t ‘betray’ Russia: Russia betrayed its best self
For the past several weeks, many in Russia and the West have been having fun with a Facebook…
Russian poetess: Evil and cruelty deified not condemned in Russia today
In Russia today, the state by celebrating some of the most odious figures in the Russian past is…
Belavezha Accords didn’t destroy the USSR: it had already ceased to exist, Shtepa says
As Russians and others approach the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, many of them are certain to…
Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Russia remains a Byzantine state and that may doom it, ‘Gazeta’ editors say
The photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting on what many falsely supposed was the throne of Byzantine emperors have…
Russians won’t admit expulsion of Circassians was genocide — but Ukrainians should
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter…
By taking over state archives, Putin makes a serious error
Vladimir Putin has committed many crimes, but his political tactics at least from his own point of view…
Building a new Russia means rooting out Stalin’s destructive Soviet legacy
Sixty years ago at the XXth Congress of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union], Nikita Khrushchev…
Another baker’s dozen of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Why don’t Russians commemorate the Terror Famine?
Today Ukrainians around the world commemorated the Holodomor, the terror famine Stalin directed against the peasantry in the…
Maidan and its significance. A historical retrospective
In the past six months, the world has seen some amazing political activity in Ukraine. We watch and…
Moscow’s claims of ‘historic right’ to Crimea don’t stand up, Popov says
The second of the eight myths Vladimir Putin has propounded to justify his illegal annexation of the Ukrainian…
Russian historian: 2014 Ukrainian Maidan affecting Russia much as 1863 Polish revolt did
Drawing on Richard Pipes’ argument that the 1863 Polish revolt was viewed by many Russians as an illegitimate…
Crimea: the Russian chauvinists’ inferiority complex
Vladimir Putin has been mentioning Crimea frequently in the recent days. He either gives history lessons, saying some…
Crimea is Not Historically ‘Ours,’ Russian Historian Says in ‘Vedomosti’
The underlying premise of Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea is false: Crimea has not been part of Russia…
“Novorossiya? Steppe Ukraine? Northern Black Sea region?”
Crooked and untrue. “Novorossiya” first emerged in 1764. Back then Catherine II just became empress of Russia. They…