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Yulia Navalnaya, a wife of the deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is accepting the Oscars award in 2023 instead of her husband for a documentary film "Navalny" about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with "Novichok", his treatment and return to Russia, where he was detained.

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Analysis

Ukraine calls to reject “good” Russians framework— it omits broader imperialism issue

While the West loops in the trap that splits support for Kyiv, Ukraine reveals why this cycle helps Putin by design — burying the only real path to Moscow's democracy.

byVira Kravchuk

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Opinion

Russia’s problem isn’t just Putin, it’s Russians

When opposition voices dream of the same empire, nothing changes

byAndrew Chakhoyan

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Latest news Ukraine

Man convicted for murder of Kremlin’s critic Nemtsov swaps prison for Ukrainian frontline

Russian authorities released Temirlan Eskerhanov, one of the men sentenced to 14 years in prison for the 2015 assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, and sent him to fight in Ukraine.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025

Inside Russia’s “Special liberation operation”: how expat rebels raid Putin’s borderlands

Adopting the Kremlin's euphemism for its Ukraine invasion, Russian rebel battalions have launched a 10-day 'special liberation operation of Russia from Putin' in Russia's Belgorod and Kursk oblasts, asserting they have seized villages, destroyed military equipment and diverted Russian forces from the front

byAlya Shandra

Latest news Ukraine

Russian opposition signs declaration to end Ukraine war, eliminate Putin regime

Politicians, scientists, journalists, and activists who left Russia called the war in Ukraine criminal, and demanded the elimination…

byAlya Shandra

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Russian opposition finally says Crimea is Ukraine’s, Kasparov says

The end of an empire begins with a military defeat. The Russian empire will be no exception Since…

byMatt Wickham

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Daily review

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 63: Russia strengthens its assault in Donbas, false-flag attacks hit Russian-occupied Transnistria

Morning report day 63 – April 27 Situation Russia threatens to attack Kyiv in the event of Ukraine's…

byHans Petter Midttun

Hitler goose-steps across the 'spineless leaders of democracy' towards his goal: 'Boss of the Universe.' The first 3 steps are labelled 'Rearmament,' 'Rhineland' and 'Danzig.' This prophetic cartoon by the British cartoonist David Low appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper in July 1936.

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Only military defeat in Ukraine can stop Putin from pursuing his larger goals, Skobov says

In proposing theses for an open letter condemning Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Moscow commentator Aleksandr Skobov has…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian opposition figures ask to exclude Russia from INTERPOL

Open letter to Interpol Commission We the undersigned are deeply concerned by the invasion of the Russian Federation…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says

The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…

byPaul A. Goble

Police arresting Putin opposition protesters in Moscow, Russia. May 6, 2012. The rally participants are protesting against Vladimir Putin’s new term as the Russian president. (Image: TASS)

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Russian opposition shows it doesn’t understand situation, Pastukhov says

Since the recent Russian Duma election, some members of the Russian opposition have tied themselves in knots with…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says

The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin Propaganda (Image Credit: PREDICTHISTUNPREDICTPAST.BLOGSPOT.COM)

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Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says

That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia

“Agents,” “undesirable,” “extremists” — how modern Russia combats dissent

If you open today any publication of Meduza, a well-known independent online media outlet, you can see the…

byPromote Ukraine

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Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says

Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian military finds a way to have a domestic control role, Golts says

The Russian high command has long wanted to have a domestic crowd control role, rather than as has…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin’s war in Ukraine looks very different in Pskov than it does in Moscow, new book shows

A new book, entitled Russia and Ukraine. Days of Eclipse, which collects articles about Putin’s war in Ukraine…

byPaul A. Goble

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Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says

Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin giving an interview to Russian propaganda TV channel RT, formerly known as "Russia Today" (Image: screen capture)

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Who’s most at risk of assassination by Putin’s siloviki? Kirillova provides a typology

One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian journalist Babchenko alive, SBU staged his “assassination” to catch organizer [Updated]

SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak told journalists that the special service faked the death of Babchenko to catch those…

byEuromaidan Press Staff