In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young Russians were focused on democratic models but it turned out that their attachment to them was superficial and soon...
Historians have often observed that one of the fundamental weaknesses of tsarist Russia was that the country was held together only by personalist ties of loyalty to the tsar and so that when the tsar was removed from the equation, Russia...
Valery Korovin, a member of the Izborsky Club, has asked Russia’s Civic Chamber of which he is also a member to press for amending the Russian Federation Constitution to include a declaration that the Russian nation is the unique...
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that may trigger what challenges Moscow’s view of the country and that many Russians and non-Russians are likely to see as...
Several well-known Russian nationalists and Stalinists have formed the “Committee of January 25th” a new “movement” to “prevent Russia’s collapse” and to “pursue a policy of reunification of...
Many Ukrainians and others believe that after Vladimir Putin leaves the scene, Moscow will return Crimea and the Donbas to Ukraine and relations between the two Slavic countries will normalize, Anatoly Oktysyuk says. But in fact, Russia...
Many people in Russia and the West are inclined to support Vladimir Putin and his policies however much they disagree with them because they believe that he is the only thing standing between the current situation and an even worse one...
Aleksandr Verkhovsky of the SOVA human rights monitoring organization says that the Ukrainian crisis and competition among Russian force agencies to distinguish themselves has led to a dramatic rise in the number and...
Ever more frequently those writing about the Russia of Vladimir Putin have recalled the chilling words of German Pastor Martin Niemoller about the way in which the failure of Germans to protest Nazi repression against one or another group...
Staunton, May 15 – The pride that people feel in their country consists of two elements: a cognitively processed one in which individuals assess the actual past and present achievements of their nation, thus grounded in reality, and...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
