Opposition to QR Codes in Russia far broader and more political than to vaccines, Kagarlitsky says
Russian opposition to the recent introduction of personal QR codes to identify individuals, control their movement and check…
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Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
Newly-elected Russian Duma likely to be the last one way or another, Yakovenko says
There are two reasons for thinking that the new State Duma (Russian parliament) will be the last, Igor…
Russia returning to Sovietism not because of the dictatorship but because most Russians like it, Vitukhnovskaya says
The passive aggressive nature of a significant portion of Russian society is the reason that the country has…
Russian opposition shows it doesn’t understand situation, Pastukhov says
Since the recent Russian Duma election, some members of the Russian opposition have tied themselves in knots with…
Kremlin’s panic over “smart voting” ends any prospect election will be viewed as legitimate, Pastukhov says
The Kremlin recognizes this, the London-based Russian analyst says; and that explains why its reaction has not been…
Moscow planning to slow down Internet speeds to where they were in the 1990s, Grozev says
The Bellingcat investigative journalist outlined this plan in a presentation to this year’s Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn…
Putinism is the post-industrial form of fascism, Skobov says
Putin’s attention to and approval of ever more distant if equally odious figures from Russia’s medieval past show…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
Is Shoygu preparing to become Russian President?
Shoygu first addressed the problem of developing Siberia and about a possible move of the Russian capital, and…
Moscow presents US as sinking into chaos
Four years ago, in November 2016, Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election was celebrated in…
US presidential election ‘extraordinarily unwelcome’ for Putin, Shlosberg says
If Vladimir Putin was pleased with the results of the 2016 US presidential election in which his operatives…
Why Ukraine should support Yuri Dmitriev, Russian historian unearthing Stalin’s repressions
On July 22, a court in Russia’s Karelia region sentenced 64-year-old historian Yuri Dmitriev. The man was found…
‘Russia can be destroyed from within and Turkey has the confederates there to do it,’ Honchar says
Given Moscow’s attempt to use ethnic Russians in Ukraine against that country, some in Kyiv have suggested the…
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…
Portnikov: Kremlin wants Ukraine’s capitulation, Putin expects a “concrete result”
Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy…
Portnikov: Putin won’t pity us
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior - the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the…
Zelenskyi may turn out to be a better Ukrainian president than many expect, Eidman says
Many fear that the inexperienced Volodymyr Zelenskyy may prove to be a disaster as president of Ukraine, making…