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For first time, Ukraine legally defines rashism as totalitarian ideology combining Russian communist and Nazi practices

The legislation provides legal tools other democracies could adopt to counter authoritarian influence operations, transforming ideological warfare from propaganda to prosecutable crime.

byOlena Mukhina

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Kyiv formally recognizes forced resettlement of 700,000 Ukrainians by Moscow and Polish communist authorities as deportation

Decades after Operation Vistula, Kyiv enshrines the truth with legal clarity.

byOlena Mukhina

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‘Authoritarian international’ emerging to fight democracy and human rights, Shaburov says

One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron before a press conference in Bormes-les-Mimosas, France, August 19, 2019. Photo: kremlin.ru

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Portnikov: Kremlin wants Ukraine’s capitulation, Putin expects a “concrete result”

Assistant to the President of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, recently stated that the summit of leaders of the Normandy…

byVitaly Portnikov

Vladimir Putin riding a three-wheel motorcycle carrying the top two officials of the Russian occupation administration for Crimea Sergey Aksyonov and Mikhail Razvozhayev and being escorted by members of Moscow's Night Wolves biker club. Crimea, August 10, 2019. Photo: kremlin.ru

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Portnikov: Putin won’t pity us

The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior - the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the…

byVitaly Portnikov

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‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says

The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…

byPaul A. Goble

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Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryov and Ikhlov say

All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or…

byPaul A. Goble

Vladimir Putin visiting Karyes, the Orthodox enclave of Mount Athos in May 2016. The above photo, of Putin standing at an ancient throne alongside Greek officials and Orthodox dignitaries, was described by various Russian news outlets, both within the country and abroad, as Putin standing at a place which had until then been reserved only for Byzantine emperors.

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Putin’s Russia has a social pyramid like the oriental despotism it is, Eidman says

Russia under Vladimir Putin resembles an oriental despotism in that all property belongs to the ruler and all…

byPaul A. Goble

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What do you call a successful terrorist? Your excellency!

It has long been a witticism among specialists on international relations that terrorists who succeed are no longer…

byPaul A. Goble

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Newly opened Lviv museum of totalitarian regimes welcomes visitors and researchers from abroad

The “Territory of Terror” memorial museum in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv is located in a place that…

byKostiantyn Yanchenko

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‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says

The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally…

byPaul A. Goble

Presentation of results of the survey "The Perception of Freedom by Inhabitants of Russia" conducted by the Friedrich-Nauman Foundation. September 28, 2016. (Image: DW/E. Samedowa)

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Survey: Most Russians say they want a democracy but don’t support democratic values

A majority of Russians – 57 percent – say they want to live in a democratic state, according…

byPaul A. Goble

Former head of Putin's Presidential Administration Sergey Ivanov, Vladimir Putin, and Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko (Image: kremlin.ru)

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Putin’s personnel changes make a long-term dictatorship more likely, Pastukhov says

The removal of Sergey Ivanov as head of the Presidential Administration, whatever the proximate causes, “symbolizes a change in…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin accelerating his plan for long-term confrontation with the West, Illarionov says

For the last decade, Vladimir Putin has pursued a plan to isolate his country from the outside world…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!

Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…

byRadio Liberty

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How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?

One of the results of the Maidan is the transfer of the KGB archives to the National Memory…

byRobert van Voren

Russian soldiers line up to kiss an “icon” of Putin, while a Russian Orthodox priest of the Moscow Patriarchate blesses them. (Image: Social media)

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Putin’s Russia well on its way to ‘criminal neo-totalitarianism’ with a ‘neo-terror’ and a ‘neo-GULAG,’ Pastukhov says

Vladimir Pastukhov says that Putin’s Russia is well on its way to “criminal neo-totalitarianism” with all the attributes…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin not threatened by a coup now but Russia is by its dependence on him, Kyiv analyst says

Kyiv analyst Taras Berezovets says that there is no threat that Vladimir Putin will be overthrown by a…

byPaul A. Goble

Line of people to Boris Nemtsov's viewing

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Like Stalin and Mao, Putin needs ‘enemies of the people’ to keep power

To survive, Putin needs to corrupt the Russian people by promoting the idea that “enemies of the people”…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian oppositioner: ‘Zombification of society keeps Putin in power but will destroy Russia’

The ongoing “zombification” of Russian society and especially of young people and intellectuals is “a guarantee of the…

byPaul A. Goble