AP: Russia dupes African women into making drones for its war in Ukraine
Russia's Alabuga factory is recruiting African and Asian women to assemble drones for the Ukraine war, using deceptive job advertisements and exploiting labor shortages.
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Ukraine’s National Resistance Center: Russian teens to manufacture 10,000 Shahed drones annually
Activists from the "Cyber Resistance" group have shared documents with the National Resistance Center, providing evidence of yet…
Ukrainian intel: No Western weapons used in Russia’s Tatarstan attack
Tatarstan officials claimed the drones used in the attack were "equipped with NATO-country equipment."
Another oil refinery targeted in Russia’s Tatarstan by drones
Unknown drones targeted an oil refinery and a Shahed drone assembly plant in Tatarstan, Russia, causing damage, with reports suggesting Ukrainian-made drones were used in this deep attack into Russian territory.
Russia’s many non-Russian nations no longer have any authors under 35 writing in their languages – Tatar scholar
A recently held roundtable on the census in the Tatarstan capital that attracted experts from across the Russian…
Ukraine’s Muslim leaders united against Putin’s war; Russia’s very much divided
The leaders of the Muslim community in Ukraine are united in opposing the Russian invasion of their country,…
Many non-Russians inside Russia oppose Putin’s war; some see end of empire approaching
The divide between those in the Russian Federation who support Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and those who oppose…
Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…
The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says
They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and…
Russia’s Tatarstan to have a Muslim holiday in memory of those who fell fighting Ivan the Terrible in 1552
With the weakening and then collapse of the Soviet empire, Tatar activists began to mark the event with…
“World will see a free Ichkeria and a free Tatarstan,” secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council says
These efforts appeared to peak in 2018 and 2019 when the Verkhovna Rada discussed and then passed a…
‘Russia can be destroyed from within and Turkey has the confederates there to do it,’ Honchar says
Given Moscow’s attempt to use ethnic Russians in Ukraine against that country, some in Kyiv have suggested the…
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…
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…
Putin’s ‘Russian world’ continues to contract
Despite Vladimir Putin’s aggressive Russification program at home and his promotion of the Russian language abroad, the Kremlin…
Non-Russian nations of Russia to defend themselves from Putin because their elites won’t
In the face of Vladimir Putin’s continuing attacks on the non-Russian republics, including now a call by his…
‘Almost like a century ago’ – Tatars again organize an alternative state in Russia
Last week, the World Congress of Tatars resolved to create its own national council, the Milli Shura, an…
Russian ‘federalism’ is to federalism what ‘military music is to music’
In 1970, Robert Sherill published a harsh critique of the US military’s justice system under the title Military…
‘If a bourgeois revolution is to start in Russia, it will begin with Tatarstan,’ Kazan historian says
Just as jadidist writers like Yosef Akchura played a key role in elaborating “the Tatar model” that became…
Five signs of less than universal Russian approbation of Crimean Anschluss
Today, on the third anniversary of Putin’s Crimean Anschluss, the Russian government is orchestrating demonstrations across Russia in…