‘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…
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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…
Portnikov: Putin won’t pity us
The news of the death of another Ukrainian warrior – the victim of a virtual ceasefire between the…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…