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Kyiv Views Middle Volga And North Caucasus As Likely To Be First Regions To Become Independent Of Moscow – OpEd

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a senior member of the Verkhovna Rada, says that he and others in Kyiv view the peoples of

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Russia Lacks Enough Ethnic Specialists To Address Nationality Issues – OpEd

The Russian Federation currently lacks the number of ethnic specialists needed to address nationality issues, participants in a hearing of

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Kremlin Helping Lukashenka Repress Belarusians By Including More Than 4,700 Of Them On Russian Wanted List – OpEd

Kremlin Helping Lukashenka Repress Belarusians By Including More Than 4,700 Of Them On Russian Wanted List – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has benefitted throughout his time as Russian president by the constant references in Russian and foreign media to

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Moscow Patriarchate Taking Full Control Of Religious Life In Occupied Territories Of Ukraine – OpEd

Moscow Patriarchate Taking Full Control Of Religious Life In Occupied Territories Of Ukraine – OpEd

Kremlin propagandists have succeeded in attracting worldwide attention to the ways in which the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine has moved to...

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Caspian Sea’s Declining Water Levels Threaten Both Russia’s North-South Project And China’s One Belt-One Road Plan – OpEd

Declining water levels in the Caspian are reducing the amount of cargo ships on that body of water can carry

14.03.2025 3

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Post-Fascism, A New Totalitarian Ideology, Now Spreading ‘Especially In Russia And The US’ – OpEd

Neither Putin nor Trump is a fascist in the classical sense, and neither in fact are neo-fascists, Vladimir Pastukhov says.

13.03.2025 9

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Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Accord Not Universally Popular In Kyrgyz Political Elite – OpEd

At the end of February, Bishkek and Dushanbe announced the conclusion of an agreement about the disputed border between them.

10.03.2025 3

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Russia Scrambling To Cope With Mounting Shortage Of Policemen – OpEd

Russia is a police state with an unusual problem: it doesn’t have enough policemen to man the front lines. As

08.03.2025 3

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Russian Sociologist Says American Ruling Elite Now Following ‘Typically Soviet Traditions’ – OpEd

Igor Eidman, a Russian sociologist who now lives in Berlin exile, says that under President Donald Trump, the ruling elite

05.03.2025 4

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Siberian River Diversion May Finally Happen Because Experts Say Russia Needs It Even More Than Central Asia Does – OpEd

For more than a century, Russians have talked about the possibility of diverting water from Siberia’s rivers to Central Asia

28.02.2025 4

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Kremlin Ignores Third Anniversary Of Putin’s Expanded War In Ukraine And For Good Reasons – OpEd

Anyone reading the Western press or what is left of its Russian counterpart this week will have been struck by

27.02.2025 3

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Russia: St. Petersburg To Use CCTV Cameras On Streets To Identify Passersby By Ethnicity – OpEd

In order to fight crime and prevent the emergence of ethnic enclaves, St. Peterburg plans to upgrade its CCTV cameras

21.02.2025 2

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Kirill’s Crack About Critic Possibly Being From Western Ukraine Speaks Volumes About Moscow’s Attitudes About Ukraine – OpEd

Until very recently, it was a commonplace among Western commentators on Ukraine that Western Ukraine, the portion that Stalin annexed

17.02.2025 9

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Ukraine War Transforming Russian Nation Just As Profoundly As It Is Ukraine – OpEd

Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, many commentators have focused on the way that war has

13.02.2025 4

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Since Start Of Expanded War In 2022, Russians Have Increasingly Turned To Fortune Tellers And Witchcraft – OpEd

Since Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russians have increasingly turned to fortune tells and other

06.02.2025 6

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Unlike Stalin, Putin Will Leave Behind Not A Strong State But Only ‘Ruins’ – OpEd

In a new book, Amusing Russia. 228 Answers, Sergey Shelin argues that Vladimir Putin is concerned only with himself and

27.01.2025 5

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With Assad’s Ouster, Moscow Set To Lose Important Church Ally In Orthodox World – OpEd

Assad’s ouster not only is likely to cost Russia its military bases in Syria but also to drive from office

23.01.2025 6

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Zuckerberg Is Removing Fact-Checkers: Did He Just Have A Change Of Heart? – OpEd

By Peter Jacobsen Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, recently made a big announcement: the platforms are going to stop fact-checking

18.01.2025 4

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West Must Take Five Steps Now To Encourage Members Of Russian Elite To Break With Putin And Flee Abroad – OpEd

Between 1953 and 1990, more than 1200 members of the Soviet elite fled abroad, individual actions that Western governments supported

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Ukraine Can Achieve Its Goals Only If Russia Suffers Strategic Defeat, Something West Isn’t Ready To Inflict – OpEd

The possibilities of ending the war in Ukraine by negotiation can be understood only if one is clear about the

14.01.2025 5

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Trudeau Announces He Plans To Resign – OpEd

By Patrick Carroll In a subdued press conference on Monday morning, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he plans to step down...

08.01.2025 6

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Narva Becomes Cultural Capital Of Finno-Ugric World – OpEd

Narva has become the cultural capital of the Finno-Ugric world for 2025 and because of its own ethnic heritage has given that title a new and...

08.01.2025 3

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Arnold Rüütel, ‘A Washington For Estonia,’ Dead At Age Of 96 – OpEd

At the age of 96, Arnold Rüütel passed away on Tuesday. He served as a senior official in the Estonian SSR during the occupation and later, in a...

02.01.2025 3

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With Trump Again Talking About Greenland, Moscow Focusing On Faeroe Islands And Their Possible Independence – OpEd

Two Danish possessions in the north Atlantic, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, are attracting increasing attention in Washington, where President-...

28.12.2024 4

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Beijing Rapidly Expanding Its Influence Across Russian Far East, With Putin’s Help – OpEd

Beijing has been rapidly expanding its influence in the economy and government offices of the Russian Far East, often with Vladimir Putin’s help...

12.12.2024 3

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Buddhist Cossacks Appear To Be Making A Comeback In Buryatia, With Ulan Ude’s Support – OpEd

Many in Moscow and the West assume to this day that all Cossacks are Russian Orthodox in religion and Russian-speaking as far as language is...

05.12.2024 10

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What’s Needed Now: A Calm Conversation About Whether World Would Be Better Off Without Russian Federation And What Is Needed For That To Happen – OpEd

No one should be surprised that Moscow is persecuting those who openly call for the demise of the Russian Federation, Sergey Chernyshov says; but...

04.12.2024 5

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Circassians Have A Chance To Lead Coming Parade Of Exits From Muscovite State – OpEd

Below is a speech I delivered online to the Second International Conference on Independent Circassia on Nov. 23. A video of this speech is...

02.12.2024 3

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Creeping Annexation? Moscow Expands Use Of Border Regions To Increase Influence In Neighboring Belarus – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has taken another page from Stalin’s playbook and is using the western border regions of the Russian Federation to expand Moscow’s...

28.11.2024 5

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Putin’s Order To Promote Patriotism Repeats Stalin’s ‘Almost Word For Word’ – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s May 2024 directive to use history lessons in the schools to boost patriotism and a willingness to sacrifice one’s life for Russia...

23.11.2024 6

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Russia Now Has Two Million Homeless And Their Ranks Are Growing Because Of War In Ukraine – OpEd

Although the Russian government does not release any statistics on homelessness, the Shelter (Nochlezhka) organization, the oldest group in Russia...

21.11.2024 5

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West Repeating Error Of 1980s And Overrating Moscow’s Strength And Survivability – OpEd

In the 1980s, Western governments and experts overrated both the strength and likely longevity of the Soviet Union, with many assuming it would...

15.11.2024 2

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Russia’s More Than Two Million Homeless Live On Average 19 Years Fewer Than Those With Housing – OpEd

Homelessness has long been a serious problem in Russia, although it has existed for so long that its dimensions are typically ignored. But new...

01.11.2024 3

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Another Black Hundreds Group Revived In Putin’s Russia – The Union Of The Russian People – And With Official Support – OpEd

Just as took place in the last decades of the Russian Empire, extreme right and often prepared for violent Russian nationalist organizations are...

28.10.2024 3

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Russia: Courts Convicting Record Numbers For Treason, Espionage, And Crimes By Military Personnel – OpEd

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has released data on convictions during the first six months of 2024. They show that courts there...

22.10.2024 2

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Patrushev Using New Position To Promote Changes In Russian Naval Policies That Threaten The West – OpEd

When Putin transferred Nikolay Patrushev from his position as secretary of the Russian Security Council and appointed him as a presidential...

20.10.2024 2

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Despite Hype, Baku And Tehran Still Far From Agreement On Railway Connecting Azerbaijan And Nakhichevan Via Iran – OpEd

Rovshan Rustamov, head of Azerbaijan Railways, says he and his Iranian opposite number, Ali Zaqeri Sardrudi, have agreed on the construction of a...

17.10.2024 3

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If Kyiv Can Force Moscow To Pursue Total Mobilization, Russia Will Collapse And Ukraine Will Win The War – OpEd

Kyiv does not need to retake all the territory currently occupied by Russian forces to defeat Moscow, Igor Eidman says. It need only force Moscow...

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Sri Lanka: Home-Grown ‘Color Revolution’ Needs Support Both From India And China – OpEd

By Kalinga Seneviratne At the height of Sri Lanka’s debt crisis two years ago, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar gave a talk at...

08.10.2024 5

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Russia’s ‘Silent Majority’ Doesn’t Share Putin’s Traditional Values – OpEd

A new survey says that “fewer than one percent” of Russians believe women should be restricted to the role of wife and mother while “more than 90...

08.10.2024 3

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Putin’s New Governor General In The Urals Faces Fateful Political Choices – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has named Artyom Zhoga, a former military man in the DNR to be the plenipotentiary for the Urals federal district, an origin that...

06.10.2024 2

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War In Chechnya Far From Over And Will Be Major Problem For Those Who Come After Putin – OpEd

On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what...

03.10.2024 10

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Islamist Radicalism Continues To Spread From Eastern North Caucasus Into Bi-National Republics In The Middle – OpEd

Since 1991, most of the Islamist violence in the North Caucasus has occurred in the three republics in the eastern part of that region, Dagestan,...

27.09.2024 4

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Ukrainian President Seeks Patriarchal Status For Orthodox Church Of Ukraine – OpEd

President Volodymyr Zelensky says that he has asked representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to raise the status of the...

26.09.2024 3

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Wanting To Keep Russia In One Piece Not The Same Thing As Wanting To Keep Putin In Power – OpEd

There are legitimate reasons for believing that the Russian Federation should come apart but there are also legitimate reasons for believing that...

23.09.2024 3

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Russian Experts Concede Caspian Water Level Falling 69 Centimeters A Year, Threatening Moscow’s Economic And Military Use Of Sea – OpEd

The decline in the water level of the Caspian Sea is now increasing so fast that Russian experts now say that it will soon threaten the ability of...

22.09.2024 10

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Claiming Russia Is Fighting NATO And Not Just Ukraine Helps Kremlin Keep Russians From Asking Inconvenient Questions About Failures – OpEd

The longer the war in Ukraine has gone on, the more the Kremlin and its propagandists have insisted that Russia is opposed there not by the...

18.09.2024 3

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Ukraine War: UN Concerned About Prohibited Weapons Transfers – OpEd

By J Nastranis UN’s top disarmament and legal officials have warned of continued prohibited weapons transfers to Ukraine and Russia. Parties to the...

17.09.2024 3

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Russian Nationalists Likely To Play Far Larger Role After Putin Departs – OpEd

 When Putin departs from power, the role Russian may very well expand, Aleksandr Verkhovsky says; and the sooner the Kremlin leader does so, the...

17.09.2024 3

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Russia Has Exhausted The Power Generating Capacity It Inherited From Soviet Union – OpEd

Russia has exhausted the reserves of electric power generation left over from Soviet times, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov says, and today it has...

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