The ugly things Moscow might do if Ukraine is consigned to a Russian sphere of influence
All too many people in the West are casually talking about recognizing Ukraine as lying within a Russian…
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Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…
Putin’s plutonium threat ‘tactically clever but strategically disastrous,’ Solovey says
Vladimir Putin’s ultimatum to the West over the plutonium issue may be “tactically clever” on his part largely…
Crimea’s occupied cultural heritage
The Russian occupation of Crimea affected all areas of life on the peninsula. The situation with violation of…
Stalinist times are returning in Russian-occupied Crimea, Poroshenko says
The incarceration of Ilmi Umerov, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, in a psychiatric hospital…
Moscow deliberately undercounting ethnic Ukrainians in Russia, Kyiv official says
Russian officials from Vladimir Putin on down have routinely complained that the Ukrainian authorities discriminate against ethnic Russians…
Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…
‘If the Russians come back again, they won’t be constrained by communism’
Some years ago, before he became Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves observed that “if the Russians come back…
Fewer Russians but more Russian speakers: The changing face of Russia
The number and percentage of ethnic Russians in Astrakhan has been declining two to three percent every decade,…
Ringing silence: US sending the wrong signal to peoples of Russia
At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space…
Russians won’t admit expulsion of Circassians was genocide — but Ukrainians should
One hundred sixty-two years ago today, tsarist forces defeated the Circassians in the North Caucasus after the latter…
Moscow seeks to block Circassians in Russian capital from marking genocide anniversary
For decades, Circassians have marked May 21 as a Day of Sorrow, the anniversary of their expulsion from…
Crimean Tatars no longer alone in remembering Stalin’s crimes against their nation
Seventy-two years ago, the Soviet state deported the Crimean Tatars from their homeland to Central Asia, a tragedy…
Occupied Crimea is Moscow’s test laboratory for repressions, Stelmakh says
Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than…
Under Putin, Circassians and Crimean Tatars at greatest risk of repression – and for same reasons
For most of Soviet times, Western commentators, to the extent they dealt with the issue at all, assumed…
Portnikov calls for establishing pan-Crimean body for liberation of Russian-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov says that Ukrainians must recognize that Crimea is--like the Donbas--a Russian-occupied territory and will…
Moscow authorities looking for patrons of Ukrainian library
Russian investigators have requested personal data on three patron who had checked out books in the Library of…