65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years
On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by…
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Pull off a kangaroo court in five easy steps: a how-to guide from Russia
Do you need to jail a political opponent? Demonize an entire ethnicity for geopolitical benefits? Look no further,…
(No) right to a fair trial, or a manual to Russia’s conveyor of repressions in Crimea
Seven years ago, Russian Special Operations Forces with no badges yet equipped with Russian weapons took over a…
Indigenous leader accuses Russia of ethnocide at UN Forum
For the first time in history, an official UN event heard an address delivered in the Erzya language.…
Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts
Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that…
46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their homeland
Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights…
Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea
Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea…
Evil empire revives in Putin’s regime and FSB methods of “fighting terrorism”
In August 1991, just after the failure of the August Coup that had unsuccessfully tried to save the…
Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryov and Ikhlov say
All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or…
Since Anschluss, Moscow engaging in slow-motion deportation of Crimean Tatars, Kashapov says
When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course…
It matters profoundly what ‘Crimean Tatars’ are called, Belitser says
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who…
Crimea’s Russians who backed Anschluss now turning against Moscow, Vasiliyev says
Many ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before the Anschluss considered themselves more Russian than even those in…
Russia’s deportation of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars from occupied Crimea a “neo-imperial policy tool” – report
In February 2014, Russia started a military operation to occupy and annex a part Ukraine – the Crimean…
FSB, SVR divide control of Moscow Patriarchate church at home and abroad, Ukrainian intelligence official says
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) at the present time is “99 percent controlled”…
Russian analyst: Two simple reflexes explain Putin’s decisions
As the gap between what Vladimir Putin says and does and what Russians see around them widens, ever…
Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population
Since the Russian occupation of Crimea began four years ago, the combination of its longtime residents being forced…
‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Today as they have done every August 30, the International Day for Remembering Those Who Have Disappeared, Crimean…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…