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

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

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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

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 4

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

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 2

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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 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 5

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

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 4

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

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 5

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Majority Of Russians Really Tired Of War But Expect It To Continue Anyway – OpEd

Majority Of Russians Really Tired Of War But Expect It To Continue Anyway – OpEd

Whenever any pollster has suggested that Russians are tired of war, the conflict’s supporters insist that isn’t the case because

22.03.2026 2

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Internet Shutdowns Highlight That Moscow Is Again Part Of Russia – OpEd

Especially since launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Puitn has sought to shield Moscow from the greatest

20.03.2026 3

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Caspian Sea Water Level Has Fallen To Lowest Level In Last 400 Years – OpEd

The water level of the Caspian Sea has now fallen to the lowest level at any time in the last

19.03.2026 6

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Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Takes Complete Control Over Nakhchivan Government – OpEd

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has approved amendments to the constitution of Nakhchivan that eliminate most of the autonomy that non-contiguous

18.03.2026 6

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South Caucasus Countries Brace For Possible Influx Of Refugees From Iran – OpEd

While there is as yet no indication that large numbers of Iranians have fled their country as a result of

17.03.2026 5

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As Putin’s War In Ukraine Drags On, Russians Are Beginning To Listen To The Opposition, A Harbinger Of Future Challenges To The Kremlin – OpEd

“When a war remains somewhere far away, it is easy to support it,” Abbas Gallyamov says; but when it begins

15.03.2026 7

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Fertility Rate Fell In All Regions Of Russia Last Month With Greatest Declines In North Caucasus Where Birthrates Nonetheless Remain The Highest – OpEd

Last month, the seasonally adjusted fertility rate fell in every federal subject of the Russian Federation with the largest percentage

12.03.2026 4

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History Has Replaced Ideology As Chief Political Argument In Russia – OpEd

In recent decades around the world and especially in the Russian Federation, ideologies have discredited themselves by their failures, Sergey

09.03.2026 4

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Residents Of Cities In Russian North Feel Increasingly Insecure Because Of Shortage Of Policemen – OpEd

The shortage of policemen across the Russian Federation has hit residents of cities in the northern portions of that country

08.03.2026 4

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Moscow Plays Ethnic Card By Having Russians With Ukrainian Roots Attack Kyiv In Diplomatic And Media Spheres – OpEd

It should come as no surprise given Moscow’s long tradition of playing the ethnic card to advance Kremlin interests, but

07.03.2026 8

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A Truly Disturbing Proposal: Putin Calls For Filling Depleted Ranks Of Police With Veterans Of His Expanded War In Ukraine – OpEd

For several years, Russian officials have sounded the alarm that the country suffers from a shortage of policemen given that

05.03.2026 7

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Local And Regional Media In Russia Play Major Role In Promoting Putin’s War In Ukraine As ‘A Given’ And Entirely ‘Normal’ – OpEd

When people talk about propaganda on the war in Ukraine, they typically focus on outrageous statements of Moscow TV personalities;

03.03.2026 6

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Siberia’s ‘Economically Accessible Resources’ Aren’t That Large – OpEd

Those who talk about “Siberia’s plentiful resources” are engaged in “wishful thinking,” Dmitry Verkhoturov says, because while the...

27.02.2026 10

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Many Of 80,000 Russian Policemen Who Left Their Positions In 2025 Joining Private Security Companies – OpEd

That the Russian police force has been losing officers rapidly because of low pay, poor working conditions and problematic management

26.02.2026 3

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Under New Constitution, Kazakhstan Will Break Free Of Soviet Russian Past And Become Kazakh Eli – OpEd

For some time, activists and commentators in Central Asian countries have wanted to change the names of their countries now

21.02.2026 10

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Putin’s War Is Why So Many Russians Are Suffering In The Dark, Cold And Without Water – OpEd

The independent Important Stories portal says that since the start of Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, 78 percent of Russia’s federal subjects

19.02.2026 7

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Tolkien’s Orcs, And The Identification Of Russians With Them, Key To Understanding Putin’s Country? – OpEd

References to Orcs, the evil characters of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, have increased in frequency in Russian society since the start

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More Than A Quarter Million Muscovites Now Own One Or More Guns – OpEd

Gun ownership among Russians, increasingly for self-defense rather than hunting or target practice, has risen dramatically since Putin launched his

15.02.2026 10

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New Kazakhstan Constitution Puts Russian ‘Alongside’ Rather Than ‘On Par’ with Kazakh, A Change Angering Some In Both Countries – OpEd

The new draft constitution of Kazakhstan changes the words used to designate the status of the Russian language. The current

14.02.2026 10

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Northern Sea Route Carried Less Cargo Last Year Than Previous Year And Far Less Than Moscow Had Projected – OpEd

The volume of cargo carried via the Northern Sea Route in 2025 was 870,000 tons less than a year earlier

11.02.2026 6

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Russian Intelligence Targeting Svalbard And Finmark, Using Russian Crews On Foreign-Flagged Vessels To Do So, Norwegian Police Security Service Warns – OpEd

In its annual report on security challenges, Norway’s Police Security Service warns that Russian intelligence is targeting Svalbard, an archipelago

09.02.2026 9

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Almost Half Of Muslims In Russia Want To Have Three Or More Children, More Than Double The Share Of Ethnic Russians Who Do – OpEd

Fertility rates have been falling among Muslim nationalities in the Russian Federation just as they have been among traditionally Orthodox

08.02.2026 6

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Senior Russian Muslim Leader Says Faithful Should Avoid Praying In Public – OpEd

The approach of Ramadan means that tens of thousands if not more of Russia’s Muslims will gather outside the few

06.02.2026 6

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Russian Veterans Returning To Impoverished Regions Likely To Have Even More Problems Than Those Returning To Most Non-Russian Republics – OpEd

Putin’s decision to complect his army from impoverished federal subjects ethnic Russian and non-Russian alike and his demand that these

05.02.2026 9

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Moscow Increases Its Focus On Two North Atlantic Archipelagos: Denmark’s Faeroes And Norway’s Svalbard – OpEd

Over the last several years, Russian analysts and commentators have talked about islands in the Baltic Sea – Gotland, the

02.02.2026 8

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Russians Don’t View Putin As Sacral But Rather As Eternal – OpEd

 In Soviet times, Stanislav Belkovsky says, jokes about the rulers was “a powerful channel of popular satire,” one especially powerful

29.01.2026 9

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Ukrainian Soldiers Not Surrendering The Way Germans Did In WWII, A Sign That End Of War Is Still Far Away – OpEd

In the final months of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, entire German units surrendered to the Red Army, a

27.01.2026 7

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Fertility Rate In Russia Falls To New Low, Highlighting Failure Of Putin’s Efforts – OpEd

The fertility rate in the Russian Federation continued to decline in 2025, down to an average of 1.374 children per

25.01.2026 9

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Does Russia Have ‘Every Right’ To Expand Its Position On Svalbard If US Does Same In Greenland? – OpEd

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Crimea is “no less important for the security of Russia than Greenland is for

24.01.2026 10

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A Quarter Fewer Men From City Of Moscow Went To Fight In Ukraine In 2025 Than Did In 2024 – OpEd

Despite the Kremlin’s push to recruit more men to go to Ukraine and fill the depleted ranks of its army

23.01.2026 10

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Moscow’s Plan To Boost Number Of Doctors Across Russia Won’t Work Quantitatively Or Qualitatively – OpEd

Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine, the Kremlin does not see improving the health care of the Russian

19.01.2026 20

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Putin’s War In Ukraine Radically Different From All Of Russia’s Previous Wars – OpEd

With Putin’s war in Ukraine now having surpassed the length of the Soviet Union’s Great Fatherland War, it is long

17.01.2026 10

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Domestic Tourism In Russia Likely Fall Smaller And Growing Less Quickly Than Moscow Routinely Claims – OpEd

Russians often say that their country is remarkable in that all of its domestic policies have led to the growth

13.01.2026 10

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Poland And Turkey Sign Accord Reminding World That Intermarium Countries Have Greater Military Capacities Than All NATO Countries Except The US – OpEd

Just before the Christmas holidays, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s deputy prime minister and minister of national defense, signed a...

11.01.2026 10

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‘Hidden’ Unemployment In Russia Skyrocketing – OpEd

Putin and his officials proudly claim that unemployment in Russia remains at a low 2.2 percent, but that figure captures

10.01.2026 10

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When War Slowly Loses Its Legitimacy – OpEd

By Jonathan Power When it comes to war, the world does move on for the better, even as dramatic events like the

09.01.2026 8

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Russians Are Going To Lose More Rights And Opportunities In 2026 – OpEd

The editors of the independent Vyorstka news portal asked their journalists to predict what rights and opportunities ordinary Russians are likely to

09.01.2026 10

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Putin’s War In Ukraine Leaves Thousands Of Russians This Winter Without Heat Or Water – OpEd

Despite promises by Russian officials that they would prevent breakdowns in the supply of heat and water to the residents

08.01.2026 8

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From Divine Rule To Popular Revolt – OpEd

By Jonathan Power What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS) get

06.01.2026 9

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Russia Is Facing A Demographic Catastrophe But With Those Currently In Power, Nothing Else Could Be Expected – OpEd

When it comes to demography, and by implication much else besides, many Russian officials and experts continue to propose not

06.01.2026 10

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Even Russian Ports Along Northern Sea Route Must Be Dredged More Often, And Those Which Aren’t Won’t Function – OpEd

The need to dredge waterways in the southern portions of the Russian Federation has attracted increasing attention over the last

04.01.2026 9

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Russia Fell Further And Further Behind China For Second Place In Space Race In 2025 – OpEd

In Soviet times, Moscow’s space program competed with that of the United States; but now, it is falling behind China,

03.01.2026 10

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Baku Asks Turkey To Get Involved On Responding To Falling Water Levels Of Caspian Sea – OpEd

Rapidly falling water levels of the Caspian are forcing Azerbaijani ships to reduce the amount of cargo they carry by

30.12.2025 10

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October 1993 Events Put An End To Moscow Patriarchate’s Hopes To Become A Force Independent Of The Russian State – Book Review

At present, when the Moscow Patriarchate is slavishly obedient in all things to the Kremlin, it is difficult to remember

29.12.2025 10

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