Pro-Kremlin analyst says Putin’s officials in Crimea do nothing but ‘lie and steal’
Yevgeny Satanovsky, president of the Moscow Near East Institute says that Ukraine and Türkiye have created some problems…
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Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea
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Did Putin occupy Crimea for same reason Stalin deported Crimean Tatars?
Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars and other Turkic peoples from the southern portions of the USSR because he…
Crimean Tatars form new organization to de-occupy Crimea
Discouraged by what they see as Kyiv’s indifference to their plight and failure to come up with an…
Contrary to Moscow’s charges, Muslims in Ukraine fight for Ukraine, not for ISIS
Russian propaganda has sought to link any group Moscow doesn’t like with ISIS as a way of justifying…
Energy blockade of Crimea raises 5 inconvenient questions, Kazarin says
The blowing up of power lines in order to intensify the energy blockade of Crimea not only “very…
Putin won’t get a new Yalta as West doesn’t need Russia to defeat ISIS
Russian propagandists and many in the West have been repeating the Kremlin’s mantra that ISIS cannot be defeated…
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The real reason why Putin annexed Crimea?
Chinese media are celebrating what has passed “almost unnoticed” in Russia: Moscow’s handing over of some 4.7 square…
Moscow’s repressions of Crimean Tatars threaten all non-Russians in Russia
Moscow regularly has used its illegal occupation of Crimea as a testing ground for policies Vladimir Putin wants…
Russian Federation ‘sooner or later’ will go the way of all other empires, Shevtsova says
The Russian Federation is not sustainable in its current form, Lilia Shevtsova says. “It is the last empire…
More Ukrainians have been forced to flee violence in their country than Syrians have had to flee theirs
Because of Russian actions, more than three million Ukrainians have fled the Donbas and Crimea either to other…
‘I condemn Putin. But …’ – What the West’s sellout of Ukraine will look like
Most Ukrainians and their supporters in the West have focused their ire on those Western politicians and commentators…
Kyiv must use military means to recover occupied territories, Borovoy says
Now that Vladimir Putin is focused on Syria and clearly unlikely to stop there, the Ukrainian government should…
Moscow’s plan to ban Crimean Tatar Mejlis seen backfiring
A few days ago, Ruslan Balbek, the vice prime minister of the Russian occupation government in Crimea, denounced…
West caving on Crimea – Putin’s first undeserved victory in Syria
Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Paris that “when Ukraine restores its sovereignty not over Crimea but…
Popov demolishes last KrymNash myth — that Crimean Anschluss hasn’t cost Russia anything
This week, Moscow historian Arkady Popov completes his demolition of what he calls the eight myths of the…
‘Don’t mention Crimean Tatar Mejlis because we say it doesn’t exist,’ Russian occupiers order media
Russian occupation officials have sent a letter to Crimean and Sevastopol media outlets directing that they are not…
Seventh KrymNash myth — that annexation was a response to West’s denigration of Russia — baseless, Popov says
The seventh “Krymnash” [CrimeaIsOurs] myth, one suggesting that Russia has not engaged in aggression in Crimea and the…
‘Support Ukraine and you’ll go to jail,’ Kremlin tells Russians
A Russian court has sentenced Rafis Kashapov of the Tatar Social Center to three years imprisonment for his…
Russian occupiers cut classes and schools in Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian
Despite Russian laws specifying that Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian are state languages in Crimea alongside Russian, the Russian…
Fifth myth of Krymnashism – Ukrainian statehood is ‘artificial’ – demolished by Popov
The Kremlin’s insistence that it has the right to take pieces of Ukraine because “Ukraine has no territorial…