Read More 5 minute read More Exiled Putin critic, Russian journalist Babchenko assassinated in Kyiv [UPDATE: he is actually alive] Arkady Babchenko, a Russian opposition journalist who fled to Ukraine has been shot in his home in the… byAlya Shandra
Read More 8 minute read More The Kremlin Guard: Russia’s pro-government youth organizations The leader of the Young Guard (Molodaya Gvardiya, MG) of United Russia Denis Davydov announced that the organization plans to create… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 7 minute read More Opinion A Killing Epidemic: The Culling of Russia’s Opposition Journalists When I was working on the story of the attempted poisoning of former Colonel GRU Sergey Skripal in the English… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Ukraine Free Idel-Ural Movement takes shape in Kyiv This week, three activists from the Middle Volga announced the formation of the Free Idel-Ural Movement to achieve… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Five disturbing Russian developments in danger of being overshadowed by 1917 anniversary All governments schedule their announcements to achieve maximum benefit for themselves, trumpeting things they are proud of at… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion Kremlin ‘road-tested’ repressive measures on LGBTs before applying them more broadly, Khots says Like many dictators before him and just as Pastor Niemoeller warned, Vladimir Putin tested various repressive measures on… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 22 minute read Opinion Russia ‘Putin now a sex symbol only for pensioners’ and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 6 minute read Opinion Russia Pastukhov: Any successor to Putin likely to be a dictator The current attacks on Alexei Navalny that suggest he will become a dictator if he manages somehow to… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Putin has transformed Russia into a gigantic ‘Island of Dr. Moreau,’ Nemets says In his 1896 novel, The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells describes how a doctor on a small… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia Political murders will continue in Russia because they are useful to Putin, Feygin says New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 9 minute read International More Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's leading opposition figures, is coming to a… byKseniya Kirillova
Read More 6 minute read Opinion Russia Three views on the consequence of this week’s demonstrations in Russia The anti-corruption demonstrations in Russia this week – for an interactive map on locations, numbers and arrests, see… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 4 minute read Opinion Russia Russian protests don’t threaten Kremlin for one simple reason, Portnikov says Both the Kremlin and the Russian people are afraid of a Maidan, but they needn’t be because for… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia When Russian liberalism doesn’t stop at border with Ukraine or at ring road around Moscow It is often said and with some justification that “Russian liberalism ends at the borders with Ukraine” –… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Russian opposition must make right of secession centerpiece of its program, Skobov says Because imperialism has been and remains at the root of almost all of Russia’s problems, Aleksandr Skobov says,… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia By focusing on corruption alone, Russian opposition unwittingly helping Kremlin, Pavlova says Alexei Navalny and the liberals who support him have focused almost exclusively on the issue of corruption, a… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia After Tillerson visit, Putin orders sweeping arrests of opposition figures Last night and this morning after the end of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit, Vladimir Putin… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More Despite crackdown, some brave Russians continue to demonstrate for Crimean Tatar rights Yesterday as they have done every 18th of the month since November, small groups of activists have come… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International More With Trump, Russian government and Russian opposition swap positions on US Russian democrats have denounced Donald Trump’s ban on some Muslims entering the US as a violation of human… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 10 minute read International Russia Trump Revolution: From Russia With Revenge Last week the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Director Jackson Diehl published an article titled "Putin's hope to ignite Eurasia-style protests in the… byKseniya Kirillova