Putin’s Russian world increasingly informed by a Nazi aesthetic, Moscow specialist says
Many commentators have discussed whether Vladimir Putin is a fascist in any serious sense, but most have failed…
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“Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The real clash of civilizations: Last Lenin comes down in Kyiv as Stalin cult rises in Moscow
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation…
Putin moving sector by sector to impose a state of emergency on Russia, Shelin says
In ever more sectors, Vladimir Putin has dropped all pretense that he is acting with the support of…
‘3 million people fled from Russia-occupied Donbas’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin’s supposedly overwhelming popular support could disappear overnight, Gudkov says
The Foundation for the Development of Civil Society says in a 26-page report that “’a Putin majority’” exists…
Peoples of Russia have nothing in common except loyalty to Putin, Kashin says
Historians have often observed that one of the fundamental weaknesses of tsarist Russia was that the country was…
Putin’s drive to build totalitarianism with political technology alone collapses, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin has tried to create something that the world has never seen and that quite possibly cannot…
Seven things Russians need to understand about their country and themselves now
Many of the problems Russians now face are rooted in their firmly-held misconceptions about the nature of Russia…
Putin leading Russia ever more rapidly to fascism and the world to war, Israeli analyst says
Vladimir Putin is leading Russia toward fascism at an ever accelerating rate, the result, Israeli analyst Avraam Shmulyevich…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
In Russia, 7-year old SMS gets you 7 years of prison
In early December, Oksana Sevastidi's undeservingly forgotten story came to the Russian media's attention. In March 2016, the simple…
‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says
The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally…
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…
Survey: Most Russians say they want a democracy but don’t support democratic values
A majority of Russians – 57 percent – say they want to live in a democratic state, according…
The Ordinary Fascism
Note with how much love the [Russian] military propagandists talk about everything that brings death to others. On the 55th…
Luddites of the world coming together to save Putin, Kyiv commentator says
In periods of rapid change, those who were comfortable in the old world inevitably emerge as political force,…
Russia was and remains a ‘prison of nations,’ Moscow writer says
Many writers seek to place all the blame for Russia’s current state on the Soviet system and the…
Something much worse than Yarovaya Laws is happening in Russia, Shipilov warns
Whenever the Putin regime does something terrible that attracts a great deal of criticism, it is always worthwhile…
Draconian “anti-terrorism” law means Putin preparing for war at home and abroad, Ponomaryov says
Today, the Russian Duma passed in second and third reading the so-called “Yarovaya-Ozerov Law on Terrorism,” a draconian measure…