Disintegrated Russia will be nuke-free, nations subjugated by Moscow decide
The post-imperial Russia disintegrated into 41 states will be nuke-free, nations subjugated by Moscow decided on their 8th meeting in Paris and London
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Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
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…
Constitutions didn’t save USSR and won’t by themselves save Russia, Vanin says
Facing a situation in which there is growing popular discontent and increasing dysfunction in institutions, Vladimir Putin has…
As long as Russia remains an empire, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Eidman says
As long as Russia remains an empire, Igor Eidman says, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive…
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…
More Crimea-like annexations are possible, Moscow scholar says
Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, one of the most important questions has been whether or not Moscow…
‘The West won’t allow the Russian Federation to disintegrate,’ Kashapov says
Rafis Kashapov, the deputy prime minister of the Tatarstan government in exile, a member of the presidium of…
Portnikov: A cup that cracked
The Church of Greece became the first after the Patriarchate of Constantinople to recognize the Ukrainian autocephaly. At…
Kyiv calls for defense of minority nations in Russia against Moscow oppression
The supporters of incumbent Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are calling on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt an appeal…
Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich says
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of…
Non-Russians inside Russia more important allies of West than is the opposition there, Verkhovna Rada leader says
In words that echo Eugene Lyons’ 1953 classic, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia, Hanna Hopko, chair…
West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed says
The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current…
Churchill’s diagnosis of Stalin’s Russia remains true for Putin’s, Bezsmertnyi says
Seventy-three years ago, Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, which is now remembered…
Moscow hides its effort to weaken larger non-Russian nations by playing up its support for smaller ones
Everyone who lived through the end of the Gorbachev era will remember that the Soviet president sought to…
Black January in Baku – the time and place the Soviet Union died
On January 20 twenty-nine years ago, Soviet forces attacked the people of Baku, killing and wounding hundreds and…
Ukrainian autocephaly a defeat for Putin but a victory for a future Free Russia, Illarionov says
Many commentators have suggested that the grant of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a great…
Growing Russian nostalgia for Soviet past far more dangerous than it appears, Kirillova says
New polls show that the share of Russians who would like to go “back to the USSR” is…
Ever more Russians want to go ‘back to the USSR’ but ever fewer Ukrainians do
Polls show that ever more Russians want to go “back to the USSR” but this nostalgia is not…
When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland
Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…
