Ukrainian soldiers to join VE Day march in London as “frontline of freedom” fighters
The UK government stated their inclusion symbolizes "global support for their continued fight for freedom" against Russia's invasion.
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Pro-Russian Bulgarian politician claims part of territory from Ukraine, fueling Kremlin narratives
Bulgaria Revival party leader Kostadin Kostadinov has aligned with Russian messaging by declaring Ukraine's imminent collapse and demanding the return of Southern Bessarabia (a part of Odesa Oblast) to Bulgaria.
Russia to raise taxes on wealthy persons and companies to fund Ukraine war
The Russian Finance Ministry has proposed significant tax hikes on corporations and wealthy individuals to raise approximately 2.6 trillion rubles annually, aiming to mitigate the fiscal deficit caused by the war in Ukraine.
Iceland joins 25 countries that recognize Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians
The government of Iceland supported the resolution that officially recognized the artificial man-made famine Holodomor (death by hunger,…
No reason for Russia to disintegrate either under Putin or after him, Navalny movement leader says
The Navalny ally makes that argument about the fate of the Russian Federation on a YouTube video…
Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991
For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
30 years on, only one Russian in 100 connects USSR with Red Terror, shootings and GULAG
Given Vladimir Putin’s obsession with the Soviet Union whose demise he regularly calls “the greatest geopolitical disaster” of…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Ukrainian music forbidden under Soviets comes to limelight in international project
Since the beginning of 2021, a young, driven team of music enthusiasts in Lviv has been working on…
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…
Vitaly Portnikov: “The ghost of the Soviet Union was definitively buried in Ukraine in 2014”
Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov was forced to resign following a week of protests against the rigged parliamentary elections.…
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…
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…
Stalin’s NKVD and Hitler’s Gestapo cooperated closely even before Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Perhaps the only thing that outrages Russian defenders of Stalin more than the obvious parallels between his regime…
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…
GULAG was not something far away in Siberia: it was all around, even in Moscow
Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This…
Russians urged to reflect on ‘inexplicable paradoxes of the Soviet Union’
A Moscow blogger has suggested that Russians now, when thinking about the Soviet past, should reflect on what…
For the chekists, Navalny is the Yeltsin of 1987, Portnikov says
Many have forgotten that in May 1987, Boris Yeltsin, then head of the Moscow city committee of the…
The real reason the Kremlin will never completely disown the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
For Moscow, the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocols which divided Eastern Europe between Hitler and Stalin…