The “Russian World” as a political technology used against Ukraine
What is the "Russian World"? The “Russian World” is a flexible and well-thought-out technology for spreading the ideology…
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Putin’s Russian world seeks to offer others 12 unattractive values, Sytin says
Aleksandr Sytin was recently on a Moscow television show hosted by Vladimir Solovyev about the values Vladimir Putin…
Putin’s failure to attract CIS leaders to Victory parade marks shift from post-Soviet era to Russian world, Dubnov says
Only one leader of another former Soviet republic, Moldova’s Igor Dodon, joined Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s Victory Day…
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…
Motorola’s death debunks 6 Kremlin myths
Myth No.1: Civil war continues in Ukraine Russian media continues to brainwash readers, referring regularly to the “civil…
Photo essence of Putin’s “Russian world” in the Donbas
This is [Russian-occupied] Luhansk today. Goats graze weeds growing from cracks in the pavement near the robbed and abandoned…
Putin overplays his hand with Lisa Case in Germany and loses friends in Berlin, Mitrokhin says
In the pursuit of his goal of exacerbating the European refugee crisis, Vladimir Putin has taken actions in…
Moscow’s Library of Ukrainian Literature to be replaced by “Russian world” propaganda center
Just as the Russian authorities transformed a museum on the GULAG from one that commemorated the suffering of…
Incredibly shrinking: Putin’s ‘Russian world’ in the post-Soviet space
Even as Vladimir Putin continues to talk about "Russian world" and the importance of reuniting it after the…
Today’s Molotovs not finding the new Ribbentrops they hoped for, Ikhlov says
At the end of 2014, Moscow commentator Yevgeny Ikhlov posted on Livejournal a comment entitled “Molotovs in Search…
Putin regime can’t be reformed, only replaced, like its Soviet predecessor, Yakovenko says
For several decades before the demise of the Soviet Union, there was an intense debate among both Russian…
The woman who sees “Russian world” every night
Watching Putin on TV talk about "Russian world," the Russian-speaking people from the corners of the former Soviet…
Russian analyst: ‘There is nothing specifically Russian’ in Putin’s ‘Russian world’
“There is nothing [specifically] Russian in ‘the Russian world,” according to Konstantin Zarubin. Its political philosophy reduces to…
Moscow analyst: War in Donbas marks ‘the irreversible and absolute end of the era of Russian empires’
The chauvinism Russia’s war against Ukraine has unleashed is becoming the grave digger of imperial consciousness among Russians,…
Putin’s incredibly shrinking “Russian world” – 3 reasons he insisted on Minsk for talks
Despite his success in intimidating some European governments into inaction or even willingness to come to terms with…
Soviet communism in the shape of the “Russian World”
The communist assembly took place in the new building of the State Great Patriotic War Museum. The heads…
The “Russian Spring” and its outcome
From the fall of 2013 until today, events in Ukraine have been the main topic of Russian politics and mass media.…
Russian Orthodox Church store in Minsk sells books about “Banderite junta”
“Defense of Donbas: Igor Strelkov: The Horror of Banderite Junta,” “Ukraine: Chaos and Revolution – the Weapons of…
Putin’s ‘Russian World’ said a model for dispersed non-Russian nations within Russian Federation
Many commentators are pointing to the influence Vladimir Putin’s irredentist policy in Ukraine is having on non-Russian nations…
Vitaliy Portnikov: Russia needs a new object for aggression
The Kremlin will only leave Ukraine alone after the empire gets a new object for hatred. For example,…