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…
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Russian occupiers continue to destroy history and culture of Crimean Tatars
The sacking of Bilyal Bilyalov as head of the Crimean Tatar Academic Musical-Dramatic Theater this week on trumped…
Putin repeating Stalin’s genocide with ‘new hybrid deportation of Crimean Tatars’
Seventy years after Stalin expelled 200,000 Crimean Tatars from their homeland, Vladimir Putin is doing it again, albeit…
74 years on, Russian genocide of Crimean Tatars continues
Seventy-four years ago, Joseph Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland, an action that cost nearly…
Being a historian an increasingly dangerous profession in Russia, Agora study says
For more than a century, Russia has been described as a country with an unpredictable past. The authorities…
Kremlin, worried about a popular explosion, taking steps to suppress it before it begins
Vladimir Putin is not acting with the self-confidence one would expect of someone who has just won re-election with…
The Crimean Tatar Palace and other historic sites Russia is destroying in occupied Crimea
Read also: Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage Among the illegal activities in Crimea, the prosecutors mentioned the following suspected crimes:…
Russia’s FSB no longer ‘new nobility’ but only tool like old KGB, Soldatov and Borogan say
The role of Russia’s security services changed in the last year, Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan say. It…
Moscow may block Twitter despite saying it views Trump’s tweets as official US policy
Roskomnadzor, the Russian government agency which oversees the media, has warned Twitter that it would block the service…
Putin will restore Iron Curtain after elections, Agora’s Chikov says
Pavel Chikov, head of the Kazan-based Agora Human Rights Organization, says that after Vladimir Putin is re-elected, the…
Inside occupied Crimea’s crackdown on independent journalism
Mykola Semena was accused by the Russian authorities of issuing public calls to violate Russia’s territorial integrity. In…
Repression of Muslims in Crimea – a reflection of Moscow’s fear of Islam as an anti-colonial force
Zair Smedlyayev, a Crimean Tatar activist, and Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Umma Muslim Spiritual Directorate (MSD)…
Russian Guard’s aspirations open the way to mass repressions, Stanovaya says
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says.…
Ukrainians in Crimea: Six sanctions for refusing a Russian passport
What is life like for Ukrainian Crimeans who have refused to take Russian citizenship, who have not yet…
‘Russian spies interfered with Nobel Committee to prevent Poroshenko Peace Prize’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Escalating repressions in occupied Crimea: Russia detained key defense attorney
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal…
Why did Putin say Russia’s prostitutes were ‘best in the world’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Like his ‘hybrid wars,’ Putin’s ‘hybrid repressions’ are all too real, Tuomi says
Some in Russia and in the West appear to think that if one inserts the world “hybrid” in…
Russians calling Washington ‘Nashington’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow is trying to destroy the Crimean civic nation, Shtepa says
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation,…