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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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” –…
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,…
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…
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…
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…