Warning to Russia’s neighbors: Moscow started to undermine Ukraine in Crimea already in 2008
It has become an article of faith that Vladimir Putin acted suddenly in annexing Ukraine’s Crimea that many…
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Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea
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With Crimean Anschluss, Putin blocked Maidan from spreading to Russia, Shiropayev says
Even though Vladimir Putin did not take part in the public commemorations of the third anniversary of his…
Three years later: Russia’s suicide by Crimea
As long as Russia maintains its grip on the Ukrainian peninsula, significant changes for the better at home are…
The Crimean Anschluss at three: ‘A jubilee of stupidity and criminality’
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, said more than she perhaps intended when she declared that the…
Five signs of less than universal Russian approbation of Crimean Anschluss
Today, on the third anniversary of Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, the Russian government is orchestrating demonstrations across Russia in…
Three years later, Crimea abandoned by both Ukraine and Russia
Three years after the illegal annexation of Crimea, the topic about the peninsula’s status turned into a political…
Ankara bans Turkish ships from entering Russian-occupied Crimea. Again.
Türkiye has banned its own ships from visiting Russian-occupied Crimea. This comes after a meeting between Ukrainian Prime…
Hitler’s anschluss and Putin’s: Similarities and differences
Seventy-nine years ago today, Adolf Hitler issued the law on the unification of Austria and Germany, an event…
‘Stop feeding Moscow!’ – slogan of next Russian revolution, St. Petersburg regionalist says
The second anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s murder near the wall of the Kremlin has sparked many memories about…
Remember the Crimean Tatars jailed for resisting Russian occupation
On February 26, Ukraine observed the Day of Crimeans’ Resistance to the Russian Occupation. That day, a march…
Putin’s Russia pursuing ‘survival by paradox,’ Shevtsova says
Putin’s Russia is “a unique case” in which a country is surviving by paradox, Brookings Institution analyst Lilia…
“Kremlin views Trump as ‘stupid, un-strategic, and manipulable,'” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Imperial idiocy. How Putin became Ukraine’s ally
With his desire to become the "collector of lands," Putin has derailed the plans of a significant segment…
Turkish government warns Putin: Crimea is not yours
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at a press conference in Kyiv that his country does not recognize…
Sevastopol : how a “city of glory” became a provincial hole
Thanks to comments made by the former Deputy Chief of Staff Yuriy Dumanskyi, Ukrainian and world media have…
Does Bulgaria’s new President consider Crimea Russian?
Bulgaria's new President Rumen Radev took office on 22 January 2017. However, his political position remains controversial to this…
Escalating repressions in occupied Crimea: Russia detained key defense attorney
On Wednesday, 25 January, 2017 in Russia-occupied Crimea, the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Nikolai Polozov, the legal…
Moscow is trying to destroy the Crimean civic nation, Shtepa says
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation,…
A Trump-Putin deal on Crimea could trigger a much bigger war, Israeli analyst says
Avraam Shmulyevich, a leading Israeli specialist on ethnic issues in the former Soviet space, says that Kyiv might…
Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…