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Soviet mentality
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Ukrainian dissident Marynovych: “Ukrainians are still making their way through the desert, searching for their Mount Sinai…”
– If we go back 30 years in history, could you, a prisoner of the communist regime, have…
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…
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…
Many Ukrainians remain “Soviet people” decades after collapse of the USSR. How to eliminate “Bolshevism of the mind”?
In the evening of 25 October 1917, a blank shot from the forecastle gun of the Cruiser “Aurora” signaled the start of…
‘Belarusians aren’t Russians and never will be’
In 2003, Leonid Kuchma published a book emphasizing that “Ukraine is Not Russia” in response to increasing Russian…
Will Russia soon cease to have a President… and have a Chairman or Tsar instead?
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the outrageous but often leading indicator of Kremlin plans, sang the Russian Imperial anthem “God Save…
Moscow Patriarchate Church in Ukraine headed toward the dustbin of history, Chapnin says
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is headed toward disintegration, and the only question is whether…
Russia’s accelerating return to Soviet past: Key dates under Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin’s restoration of many aspects of Soviet life is not only obvious but accelerating, as is clearly…
The future of Donbas: Ukraine or nothing
The speech by Donetsk professor and writer Olena Stiazhkina during the TEDx Kyiv 2014 conference, November 1, caught…