Russian authorities dig up ancient Muslim necropolis to build highway in occupied Crimea
Some of the human remains will be re-buried, others will be sent to research institutions. Vesti.Krym TV channel…
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Stalin frequently modified Russia’s borders, adding and subtracting territory, Butakov says
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were…
Broad coalition of non-Russians launch Internet petition drive against Putin’s language policies
Representatives of a significant cross-section of non-Russian nations now within the borders of the Russian Federation have launched…
Russia’s imperial crackdown on the memory of indigenous victims of deportations
Imperial nostalgia against the memory of victims In June 2017, a month after the 73d anniversary of Sürgünlik…
The worst Russophobes in the world are in the Kremlin, Kornyev says
Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin routinely denounce others as Russophobes, but most of those they target do not…
Russia’s ideology is ‘traditional great powerness cleansed of communism,’ Pavlova says
Both supporters and critics of the Putin regime often say his regime lacks an ideology – Aleksandr Podrabinek…
Moscow’s false story about Alaska infuriates residents of Russian North
A story Moscow media outlets put out yesterday claimed that an advisor to the governor of the US…
Former Soviet republics must and will become Russia’s ‘protectorates,’ Moscow blogger says
Given loose talk among some in the West about recognizing a Russian sphere of influence over the former…
Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…
Moscow analyst: the Kremlin won’t accept Finlandization of Ukraine
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration.…
Putin’s Russia for export at odds with his Russia for Russians, Shiropayev says
A major source confusion about Vladimir Putin and his intentions is that the Russia he has been promoting…
Russia has to yield more than Crimea for a chance to become a democracy, Buravlyev says
Many Ukrainians now argue Russia must give Crimea back to Ukraine to have any chance of becoming a…
Moscow wields Russian again as hybrid weapon against its neighbors
At the end of last week, Eleonora Mitrofanova, Moscow’s ambassador for special assignments, said that “the Russian language…
Sakha Constitutional Court in Russia rules ‘all the territory of Yakutia is the historical motherland of the Yakut people’
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that…
NATO won’t do more than express concern, if Putin attacks another former Soviet republic, Illarionov says
If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize into any of the former Soviet republics -- including the…
Putinism represents triumph of ‘feudal traditionalist reaction,’ Skobov says
Many commentators suggest that what Vladimir Putin is doing is restoring Sovietism, but they are mistaken, Aleksandr Skobov…
Putin’s new political technologies keep his antiquated system in place, Shevtsova says
Vladimir Putin is with remarkable success using modern political technologies to keep himself and his increasingly antiquated and…
Wagging the finger: where the West fails to understand Ukraine
I grew up in the West, where few people know much about Ukraine. In the USA—my home country—most…
Ukrainian independence exposed bankruptcy of all three Russian imperial projects, Ikhlov says
There “cannot be a more bitter date for contemporary Russia than August 24, 1991,” Yevgeny Ikhlov says, when…
Kremlin’s losing battle: Next stage of disintegration of Soviet space
Violence in Kazakhstan and Armenia are the clearest sign yet that the post-Soviet space is entering into its…