French MP says Ukraine is responsible for invasion
The proposal by French MP Thierry Mariani to impose sanctions against Ukraine for not implementing the Minsk-II agreements…
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Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea
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Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…
1997 Treaty gave Moscow right to send army into Crimea before referendum, Chizhov says
A senior Russian diplomat has just come up with a justification for Russia having sent 9,000 military personnel…
Occupied Crimea is Moscow’s test laboratory for repressions, Stelmakh says
Moscow’s illegal occupation of Crimea is an even greater threat to the world and to Russia itself than…
Under Putin, Circassians and Crimean Tatars at greatest risk of repression – and for same reasons
For most of Soviet times, Western commentators, to the extent they dealt with the issue at all, assumed…
Russian coverage of Jamala’s victory descends to the level of old Soviet anecdote
The Russian media which had predicted the victory of the Russian competitor in this year’s Eurovision song competition,…
‘Jamala glorified Ukraine and Crimea!’ — Crimeans on Jamala’s Eurovision win
Jamala’s win in Eurovision 2016 song festival brought a lot of joy, pride and happiness to people in…
Crimea comes to Eurovision
Eurovision 2016 will go down in history because of the “1944” song. Today Jamala will sing at Eurovision…
Portnikov calls for establishing pan-Crimean body for liberation of Russian-occupied Crimea
Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov says that Ukrainians must recognize that Crimea is–like the Donbas–a Russian-occupied territory and will…
Russia ‘for first time in its history’ has lost its monopoly on the Russian language, Zhadan says
The bilingual Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan, who writes exclusively in Ukrainian, says that Russia “for the first time…
What Moscow did to Koenigsberg, it will do to Crimea
Moscow’s destructive approach to its exclave of Kaliningrad [former East Prussian city of Koenigsberg – Ed.] over the last 70 years suggests…
Seven reasons why Putin’s war in Ukraine is a turning point in Russian and world history
As the world’s attention shifts, many Russians and many in the West are telling themselves that Vladimir Putin’s…
Kerch bridge emblematic of new Russian imperialism, Kazarin says
Even though Moscow is facing difficulties financial as well as technical building its bridge to occupied Crimea, there…
Two years after Russia’s takeover, no Crimean spring
They’re calling it the “Crimean Spring.” These are the several celebratory events that are being held in occupied…
Crimean Anschluss opened way for justification of Stalin and Soviet system, Zubov says
The Crimean Anschluss opened the way for the “completely open” justification of Stalin and thus of everything Soviet…
As Crimea was occupied, Western countries cautioned Ukraine against “drastic steps”
Today, the National Security and Defence Committee has declassified and published the minutes of the most important high-level meeting…
Putin, trapped between war and revolution, will choose war, Ikhlov says
There are two possibilities in Russia today: either Vladimir Putin is in control of events or he is…
Putin, world’s first nuclear terrorist, must be isolated internationally, Yakovenko says
Like a dose of polonium, the “moral idiotism” of Vladimir Putin has succeeded in infecting all of Russia…
Russia prepares for a Crimean blockade at sea
The Ukrainian law banning almost all trade with Russian-occupied Crimea is now in force. Activists began taking down…
Troubling questions about Putin: Is he sick? And is he getting rid of witnesses?
In the dies non that exists in Russia over the country’s long winter holidays, two uncomfortable and potentially…