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Central Asians And All Others Must View Russian And Soviet History As ‘A History Of Colonialism’ – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Moscow continue to promote the myth that Russia was never an empire but a liberator and provider of

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Putin Should Follow Trump’s Example And Give Russian Names To Wherever He Likes, Leaving US With ‘Only A Lake In Canada’? – OpEd

Key Takeaways: In a world where it is increasingly difficult to separate satire from reality, Sergey Aksyonov, a Svobodnaya Pressa commentator, argues

01.09.2026 7

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Development Of Shipping Routes In Arctic Will Cost More Than $120 Billion Dollars Over Next Decade, Rosatom Head Says – OpEd

The development of the Trans-Arctic Transportation Corridor, which includes the Northern Sea Route, will cost more than 120 billion US

31.08.2026 5

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Putin’s Monopoly On ‘Russianness’ Has Allowed Him To Continue To Wage War In Ukraine And Must Be Challenged – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Ever more people around the world recognize that the Russian Federation includes a variety of non-Russian nations who

29.08.2026 10

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Caspian’s Water Level Decline Accelerating Despite Expectations That Sea’s Declining Surface Area Would Mean Less Evaporation – OpEd

In 2020, the water level of the Caspian fell by eight centimeters; but last year, it fell by 23, despite

28.08.2026 9

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Northern Sea Route Shows That ‘Shortest Path Is Not Necessarily The Most Profitable’ – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Moscow invariably suggests that the Northern Sea Route will beat out the Suez Canal as the primary sea

26.08.2026 5

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Outcome Of Kazakhstan Election Shows Where Russia And Other Post-Soviet States Are Likely Heading – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The outcome of the elections to the new single chamber Kazakhstan parliament shows the direction that party building

25.08.2026 10

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To Keep Armenia In Russia’s Orbit, Moscow May Soon Use Migration Weapon – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Roughly a quarter of Armenia’s GDP consists of transfer payments by Armenians working in the Russian Federation; and

24.08.2026 10

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Moscow’s 1520mm Railway Gage ‘Empire’ Long A Source Of Influence Losing Ground To China Inside Russia Itself – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Moscow officials and Russian nationalists have long referred to the 17 countries – the 12 former Soviet republics,

18.08.2026 10

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Armenia’s Pursuit Of Equal Treatment For All Members of Russian-Led Groupings Threatens Moscow More Than Its Own Exit Would – OpEd

Any individual, group or country which is part of a larger structure created by others which have done so to

18.08.2026 30

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Dugin Says Russia Must Empty Moscow And Other Large Cities To Save The Country From An Upcoming Nuclear War – OpEd

Aleksandr Dugin, the outspoken Russian philosopher who has enormous influence on the Kremlin, says that the populations of Moscow and

16.08.2026 10

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Ever More Russian Elites Want Collective Leadership Instead Of Personalist Dictatorship – OpEd

Key Takeaways Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin speechwriter who is now a fierce critic of the Russian president, says that

15.08.2026 10

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Ukrainian Drone Attacks On Russia’s Water Supply Network Would Lead To Disaster And Moscow Would Be To Blame – OpEd

Because Moscow has failed for 25 years to do much to modernize the water supply networks of Russia, Ukrainian drone

12.08.2026 10

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Iranian Government Wants Country’s Parliament To Ratify 2018 Caspian Accord – OpEd

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says his government is sending Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

10.08.2026 10

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Only ‘About 15 Percent’ Of Orthodox Priests In Russia Support Putin’s War – OpEd

Many assume that Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s regular statements of support for Putin’s war in Ukraine set the weather for Orthodox priests

10.08.2026 20

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Single-Person Households In Russia Increasing Rapidly At Both Ends Of The Age Spectrum – OpEd

The number of single-person households in Russia is increasing rapidly both because of the share of younger Russians who have

05.08.2026 10

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Kremlin’s Promotion Of ‘Civic Religion’ Emptying Out Orthodox Churches – OpEd

Despite being at war, something that usually drives up church attendance, Russian Orthodox Churches are drawing ever fewer attendees at

04.08.2026 10

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Kazakhstan President Offers New Model For Dealing With Moscow, ‘Partnership Without Political Alignment’ – OpEd

During his July 25 meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev offered a new model for non-Russian leaders dealing

01.08.2026 10

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Moscow To Deploy Dirigibles To Better Defend Russia Against Ukrainian Drones – OpEd

One of the reasons drones are so effective is that they fly so low that until they are very close

28.07.2026 20

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More Than Half Of Russia’s 250,000 Km Oil Pipelines Worn Out And Leaking Or At Risk Of Doing So In Near Term – OpEd

Key Takeaways: More than half of Russia’s network of 250,000 km of oil pipelines are worn out and have leaked

24.07.2026 10

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‘Belarus Isn’t Russia’ But Rather A Country ‘Five Minutes Away From Totalitarianism’ – OpEd

Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian journalist and activist for the Polish minority in that country who has received a Sakharov Prize

23.07.2026 10

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Trump’s Captive Nations Week Proclamation Focuses More On Threats In US Than On Those Elsewhere – OpEd

Key Takeaways: Since the US Congress in 1959 required that the president declare the third week of July Captive Nations

22.07.2026 10

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If Northern Caspian Disappears, Russia Will Lose Its Caspian Flotilla And Much Else – OpEd

Key Takeaways: The northern segment of the Caspian is historically and geologically much shallower than the southern part, Rauf Mammadov

20.07.2026 20

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Putin Excluding Individuals And Groups From Common Legal Sphere Much As Nazis Did – OpEd

Key Takeaways: “Max Weber described the state as a structure possessing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force” but

19.07.2026 10

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Moscow Finalizing Plans To Take Baltic Countries To International Criminal Court Over Treatment Of Ethnic Russians – OpEd

The Russian foreign ministry says that Moscow is now finalizing plans to files suit in the International Criminal Court against

17.07.2026 10

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Dramatic Shrinkage Of Caspian Sea Equals Size Of Sicily, Residents Face Growing Health Risks – OpEd

In the course of the last three decades, the Caspian Sea has declined in size by an area the size

15.07.2026 10

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Adenauer’s Opposition To A United Germany In 1920s Should Be Recalled By Both Those Denounced As Wanting To Dismember Russia And Those Doing Such Denunciations – OpEd

Key Takeaways: It is often forgotten that in the 1920s, Germany was divided between those who favored breaking it up

14.07.2026 10

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New Ukrainian Study Says Eight Out Of Ten Russian Regions Capable Of Rapidly Becoming Independent Countries Once Moscow Collapses – OpEd

Key Takeaways Eight of the ten republics and regions in the Russian Federation that Ukrainian scholars have examined are capable

11.07.2026 20

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Marxism Succeeded In Russia Because Its Denial Of Freedom Matched Russian National Character – OpEd

Key Takeaways Many Moscow commentators and politicians are suggesting that Russia’s future should involve the restoration of the Soviet system,

10.07.2026 20

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Estonia Gives Russian Orthodox Church Six Months To Appoint New Metropolitan And Cut All Ties With Moscow – OpEd

Key Takeaways The Estonian interior ministry has sent a letter to all religious associations in that Baltic country that they

09.07.2026 20

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Russian Defense Ministry Preparing Law To Limit Ability Of Wounded Or Infected Soldiers To Separate From Service – OpEd

The Russian defense ministry is preparing a law that will severely limit the ability of soldiers wounded in combat or

07.07.2026 20

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Tokayev Disbands Assembly Of The People Of Kazakhstan – OpEd

Reflecting the increasing dominance of the ethnic Kazakhs in Kazakhstan’s population and Astana’s commitment to building a unified civic society,

04.07.2026 20

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For Putin, Elections Serve As Key Tool To ‘Test The Waters’ On Elite And Public Sentiment – OpEd

For Putin, elections remain critically important even though their results are pre-ordained because they serve as a means of “testing

02.07.2026 20

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Gas Crisis Leads Three Russian Regions To Declare State Of High Alert, Could Be Step Toward Delaying Elections – OpEd

The governors of three federal subjects – Penza, Transbaikal and Irkutsk – have declared a high state of alert because

01.07.2026 20

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Even Though Russia Has Not Yet Annexed South Ossetia, Questions Grow Over Possible Absorption Of Abkhazia – OpEd

Whenever one country annexes part of another as Russia did with Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, many observers immediately ask whether

28.06.2026 20

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UN Body Puts Russian Forces In Ukraine On Its List Of Worst Perpetrators Of Sexualized Violence – OpEd

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexualized Violence in Conflict for the first time ever has included

27.06.2026 20

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Moscow Orders ‘Destructive Literature’ Be Kept In Special Library Collections Most Russians Won’t Be Allowed To See – OpEd

The Lenin State Library in Moscow is setting up a special restricted access collection (in Russian, spetskran) to hold what officials

26.06.2026 20

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Popularity Of Conspiracy Theories About Demise Of USSR Intended To Distract Attention From Real Causes – OpEd

Conspiracy theories about the demise of the USSR, associated in the first instance with publicist Yevgeny Spitsyn, are intended to

25.06.2026 30

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Moscow Arrests Ten Senior Muslim Leaders, Sending New Chill Through Russia’s Islamic Community – OpEd

The Russian authorities have arrested on a variety of charges ten senior Muslim leaders, an action that some are linking

23.05.2026 20

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Exclave Issue In Armenia And Azerbaijan Seen Heating Up Again After June Vote In Armenia – OpEd

The four Azerbaijani exclaves in Armenia and the three Armenian ones in Azerbaijan, marked on Soviet maps but largely depopulated

22.04.2026 20

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Despite Nominal Ban, Russian Military Still Signing Up Mentally Handicapped To Fight And Die In Putin’s War In Ukraine – OpEd

Before Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian military tried to avoid drafting those with

18.04.2026 20

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In Putin’s Russia ‘Cruelty Has Become A Form Of Patriotism,’ Says Dmitry Muratov – OpEd

On April 11, Dmitry Muratov who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in promoting independent journalism in Putin’s

17.04.2026 20

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Moscow’s Naming Memorial An Extremist Organization ‘Direct Result’ Of Putin’s Declining Poll Numbers – OpEd

Sergey Davidis, a longtime Memorial activist now in emigration, says that the main cause behind the decision to declare Memorial

12.04.2026 30

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More Than 23,000 People Evacuated From War Zone In Ukraine Four Years Ago Remain In Temporary Housing In Russia – OpEd

After Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian forces evacuated many residents from the war zone

03.04.2026 30

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Turkmenistan Announces Plans To Build Its Own Patrol Boats For Caspian Duty – OpEd

Of all the Caspian littoral states, Turkmenistan has attracted the least attention for efforts to build a fleet to protect

31.03.2026 30

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For First Time In Fifty Years, Migration Flows Have Now Shifted Away From Russia’s Major Cities Toward Smaller Ones – OpEd

Russian geographers and economists speaking at a Moscow conference this week say that for the first time in almost half

29.03.2026 40

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Once Large And Active Ukrainian Diaspora On Russia Currently ‘Lost To Ukraine’ – OpEd

Since 2010, Moscow has worked to suppress or take full control over all organizations in Russia involving Ukrainians as part

28.03.2026 30

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Russians Marry Later Now Than In Past And All Signs Are They Will Marry Even Later In Future Regardless Of What Moscow Does – OpEd

Russians are now marrying approximately four years later than they did a little over a century ago, following with a

27.03.2026 40

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Putin Regime Bringing Charges Against Russians For Posts They Made Online Long Ago – OpEd

Internet comments and pictures Russians posted online many years ago are being examined by the Putin regime’s Center E and

25.03.2026 40

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Russia’s Richest Regions Growing Richer While Poorest Ones Grow Poorer – OpEd

The 10 richest federal subjects of the Russian Federation – the two capitals and eight resource extraction locations – are

24.03.2026 40

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