Zelenskyi playing on Putin’s fears Ukraine could be an alternative Russia, Kirillova says
Even before his inauguration, incoming Ukrainian president has launched an information war against Moscow, calling on others in…
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Zelenskyi doomed to be Putin’s personal enemy, Portnikov says
Even though the Kremlin wanted Petro Poroshenko to suffer in the recent elections, it did not want an…
Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
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…
Putin regime – West’s ‘existential’ enemy and West must stop his aggression in Ukraine by force, Skobov says
The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international…
Russians will celebrate return of Crimea to Ukraine if Putin tells them to, Portnikov says
The possibility that Vladimir Putin will return two or more of the Kurile Islands the Soviet Union seized…
Moscow sanctions Ukrainian parliamentarian who called for defense of rights of Middle Volga nations
Two weeks ago, Hanna Hopko, the chairman of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada’s foreign affairs committee, called on the…
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…
Putin’s Russia has a social pyramid like the oriental despotism it is, Eidman says
Russia under Vladimir Putin resembles an oriental despotism in that all property belongs to the ruler and all…
Authoritarian modernization ever less possible for Russia and others, Klyamkin says
In the course of his current debate with economist Andrey Illarionov, social commentator Igor Klyamkin makes an important…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
Putin feels a kinship with Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin “defends Ivan the Terrible and Stalin ‘from excessive demonization’ because unconsciously he feels himself” to share…
Pastukhov: Any successor to Putin likely to be a dictator
The current attacks on Alexei Navalny that suggest he will become a dictator if he manages somehow to…
No foreigner cracked Russians’ top ten statesmen of all times and places
The Levada Center poll concerning whom Russians see as the most outstanding statesmen of all times and places…
Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…
The worst Russophobes in the world are in the Kremlin, Kornyev says
Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin routinely denounce others as Russophobes, but most of those they target do not…
“Putin said to orchestrate Trump’s impeachment” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…