Belavezha Accords didn’t destroy the USSR: it had already ceased to exist, Shtepa says
As Russians and others approach the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords, many of them are certain to…
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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…
Moscow’s propaganda about Ukrainian anti-Semitism — response to Ukrainian resistance, Ackerman says
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of…
Kuropaty, the Soviet killing fields in Belarus — world must not forget
Zianon Pazniak, who 28 years ago published an article exposing the Soviet killing fields at Kuropaty, a wooded…
June 22, 1941 – the day Hitler and Stalin ceased to be allies
Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he…
Archives show Stalin was ready to give Hitler Ukraine and the Baltics
A few days after Hitler broke his alliance with Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet dictator…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
Does the Kremlin fear repeats of 1962 Novocherkassk events – and would it react equally brutally?
Reports that Russian police are training to suppress working class risings appear especially ominous given that they come…
Russia remains a Byzantine state and that may doom it, ‘Gazeta’ editors say
The photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting on what many falsely supposed was the throne of Byzantine emperors have…
Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…
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 government now behaves like ‘any other occupation regime,’ Moscow commentator says
With its plans to reintroduce the Soviet tax on “parasites” and to restrict travel abroad, the Putin regime…
The price for a clear conscience in Russia
Not being able to go home to your own country, to see your parents, to bury your loved…
Chornobyl destroyed the Soviet Union
Thirty years ago this week, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident set in train the forces that destroyed…
Chornobyl: the secret tragedy which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union
Kyiv, a 10-y.o. old boy comes from school and says: – Mom, a girl in my school told…
Ukraine’s Chornobyl, like Russia’s Chelyabinsk before it: Symbols of untenable Soviet moral decay
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) Nuclear Power Plant disaster. On April 25, 1986, workers…
What Russia’s opposition can learn from a Soviet dissident from Ukraine
I once had the good fortune to meet Yakov Osmolovsky, a Soviet dissident from Ukraine whose fate brought…
The Kremlin’s revival of the “red project” may ultimately turn against it
In early July, I wrote about how it is profitable for the Kremlin to take advantage of radical…
Two anniversaries of Soviet state terrorism must not be forgotten
Twenty-five years ago today, Soviet forces carried out an act of state terrorism in the Latvian capital of…