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UK intel: Putin’s decree pressures Ukrainians to accept Russian passports or leave occupied areas

This move is part of ongoing Russian efforts to enforce Russification policies in these areas, aiming to eliminate Ukrainian culture, identity, and statehood.

byYuri Zoria

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Ukrainians forced to obtain Russian passports won’t face legal consequences, says Ukraine’s Justice Ministry

The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice has assured that citizens coerced into obtaining Russian passports in occupied territories will not be held accountable. This decision aims to protect those who faced threats of repression from the occupying authorities.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian national flags shot at by Russian invaders but still flying over damaged gravestones of Ukrainian soldiers at the Yatsevo cemetery in Chernihiv after breaking the Russian siege. April 6, 2022. The Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-present. Photo: Stas Yurchenko via FB.

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British Defense Ministry: Russia extends ‘Russification’ in occupied Ukraine through education, personnel training

Moscow is launching a master's program to train personnel for government roles in the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson & Zaporizhzhia oblasts, likely aimed at creating a new administrative 'elite.'

byMaria Tril

Ukraine claims milestone in top UN Court, but Russia left unpunished

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UK intel: Russia threatens to deport Ukrainians without Russian passports from occupied areas

Russia forcing Ukrainian residents in occupied areas to accept Russian citizenship or face deportation, per UK intelligence.

byYuri Zoria

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Kremlin’s Russification campaign in Ukraine fuels nationalism and xenophobia within Russia – ISW

The Kremlin’s campaign of “Russification” in Ukraine is burning back into Russia itself as it continues to empower…

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Russian occupiers remove Ukrainian from school curriculum in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

The Russian occupation authorities intend to cancel the compulsory Ukrainian language curriculum in the temporarily occupied territories of…

byKate Ryabchiy

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Russian War Crimes

How schoolchildren in Russian-occupied Ukraine are taught to hate their homeland

“All the supporters of Ukraine are traitors. If Ukraine remains independent, evil will invade it.” Russian authorities in…

byOlena Mukhina

The regional distribution of self-identified ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Federation, as percentage of population (Source: 2010 Russian Federation census)

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Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous

Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian state language policy: In Russia you may speak any language, as long as it is Russian (Image: Euromaidan Press)

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Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says

But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

World Congress of Tatars, August 2017 (Image: business-online.ru)

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Kremlin simultaneously seeking to destroy republics and nations on which they rest, Shro says

In a Guildhall commentary, he suggests that these two processes, in turn, are connected with “the strengthening of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Hybrid War

Post-Euromaidan gains for Ukrainian language challenged by creeping Russification and state indiffirence

Since 2014, Ukraine has had a state policy for the protection and promotion of the Ukrainian language, to…

byBohdan Ben

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The brutal Russification of Ukrainian Kuban: from Zaporizhian Sich to the Kuban Cossack Host

The new land of the Ukrainian Cossacks Thousands of Ukrainian Cossacks and their families moved to the Kuban…

byChristine Chraibi

Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko created a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin from 5,000 spent shell cases collected from location of battles in Russia's aggressive war in the Donbas. Photo: dashart.com.ua

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Hybrid War

Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

This map shows Circassia and Georgia before the Russian conquest (Image: Johann Homann via Wikimedia)

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Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says

Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian Federation population growth/decline over 1985-2019

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Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says

Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by…

byPaul A. Goble

A congress of Crimean Tatar organizations in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2019 (Photo: qha.com.tr)

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46 Crimean Tatar organizations call for end to Russian occupation of their homeland

Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights…

byPaul A. Goble

A heavily-protected Russian entry point into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia in March 2014 (Image: Kommersant.ru)

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Experts: UN report understates Moscow’s effort to Russify occupied Crimea

Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea…

byPaul A. Goble

The Pomors, an ethnicity composing modern-day Russians. Photo circa 1900.

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Moscow has long sought to destroy Slavic languages other than Russian, Zolotaryev says

The Russian government’s efforts to undermine and push out of general use Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages are well-known,…

byPaul A. Goble

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New Siberian website provides data on Russification of non-Russians and repression of Russians

At a time when most Russian sites are devoted to promoting an entirely positive image of the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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The Ukrainian who set himself on fire protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Vasyl Makukh was born on November 14, 1927 in Lviv Voivodship, Second Polish Republic. He was a veteran…

byRadio Liberty