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…
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24 years ago, Moscow attacked Chechnya, triggering a war that changed everything
Most people today are focusing on bidding farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the great human rights activist that Vladimir…
Putin’s rise had 13 ‘fathers’ and 12 serious opponents, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin and the Russian political system known as Putinism did not emerge out of nowhere, Andrey Illarionov…
Putin elites want ‘Stalinism without Stalin’ and ‘repression with a human face,’ Rubtsov says
Russians do not, by their nature, “love Stalin,” Novaya gazeta commentator Aleksandr Rubtsov says; instead, they “are being…
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 Chechen War isn’t over’
Moscow, Grozny and many in the West like to say that the Chechen war is a matter of…