Russians angry at authorities for failing to prevent terrorist attacks, Gorevoy says
Until recently, in the wake of any terrorist attack inside Russia, Russians focused their anger on the terrorists,…
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Putin provoking rather than preventing Islamist terrorism in Russia, Portnikov says
The 1999 apartment bombings led to actions by Vladimir Putin that contributed to the stabilization of Russia, but…
Will Petersburg terrorist act stabilize or destabilize Russia?
Just as he has in the past, Vladimir Putin is counting on being able to exploit the latest…
Who was Denis Voronenkov, exiled Putin critic murdered in Kyiv?
On 23 March 2017, exiled Russian ex-MP Denis Voronenkov was assassinated in central Kyiv near the hotel from…
Former Russian MP Voronenkov, key witness in Yanukovych treason case, assassinated in central Kyiv
UPDATED - Denis Voronenkov, a former member of the Russian Duma who had moved to Kyiv, has been…
Putin’s ‘secret weapon’ against the West – massive illegal cash hordes in foreign countries
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly…
Russian agents in Minsk pushing Lukashenka to crack down hard, Belarusian analysts say
Russian agents in the Belarusian security services along with Russian agents in the blogosphere are calling on Alyaksandr…
Moscow archpriest calls for new death squads to destroy ‘traitor-emigres’
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called…
Putin’s ‘real but Pyrrhic victory’: infecting the world with distrust and division
Vladimir Putin has achieved a real but Pyrrhic victory with his policy of hybridity: domestically - by transforming…
1.7 million people blacklisted from entering Russia and Belarus
On 28 February, the Belarusian Minister of Interior Igor Shunevych revealed that 1.7 million people are on the…
Moscow deploys the most dangerous kind of disinformation against Ukraine
Lies are one thing; disinformation quite another, as the late Nathalie Grant warned decades ago. The first can…
Nemtsov and Moscow’s Bloody List
February 27 will mark exactly six months since the death of my close friend and colleague, Russian and…
List of Kremlin-linked deaths since Nemtsov’s murder continues to lengthen
Today, many people around the world will be commemorating the second anniversary of the murder of opposition Russian…
Putin now fears a threat he helped create – 4,000 Russian citizens fighting for ISIS
Vladimir Putin told Russian military leaders yesterday that Moscow now estimates that there are some 4,000 Russian citizens…
Russia’s interest in Libya
While US President Donald Trump is doing its best to prove that Russia is going to become a…
Putin said plotting a new refugee crisis to influence EU elections
George Vella, the foreign minister of Malta, says that Vladimir Putin is now seeking to exacerbate the civil…
Another warlord killed: Mystery grows as series of deaths in Russian-backed enclaves continues
On 8 February 2017, at 6:12 AM, Mykhailo Tolstykh, callsign "Givi," was killed in his office in occupied…
‘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…
Even if Trump and Putin make a deal, Ukrainians ready to fight to defend their country, Kyiv experts say
As rumors swirl that Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will discuss Ukraine and possibly make a deal…
Putin regime raised political police above all other force structures, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ says
The Kremlin has “often put the E Center” – the informal name of the MVD’s Anti-Extremism Center –…