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In recent decades around the world and especially in the Russian Federation, ideologies have discredited themselves by their failures, Sergey
The shortage of policemen across the Russian Federation has hit residents of cities in the northern portions of that country
It should come as no surprise given Moscow’s long tradition of playing the ethnic card to advance Kremlin interests, but
For several years, Russian officials have sounded the alarm that the country suffers from a shortage of policemen given that
When people talk about propaganda on the war in Ukraine, they typically focus on outrageous statements of Moscow TV personalities;
Those who talk about “Siberia’s plentiful resources” are engaged in “wishful thinking,” Dmitry Verkhoturov says, because while the...
That the Russian police force has been losing officers rapidly because of low pay, poor working conditions and problematic management
For some time, activists and commentators in Central Asian countries have wanted to change the names of their countries now
The independent Important Stories portal says that since the start of Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, 78 percent of Russia’s federal subjects
References to Orcs, the evil characters of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels, have increased in frequency in Russian society since the start
Gun ownership among Russians, increasingly for self-defense rather than hunting or target practice, has risen dramatically since Putin launched his
The new draft constitution of Kazakhstan changes the words used to designate the status of the Russian language. The current
The volume of cargo carried via the Northern Sea Route in 2025 was 870,000 tons less than a year earlier
In its annual report on security challenges, Norway’s Police Security Service warns that Russian intelligence is targeting Svalbard, an archipelago
Fertility rates have been falling among Muslim nationalities in the Russian Federation just as they have been among traditionally Orthodox
The approach of Ramadan means that tens of thousands if not more of Russia’s Muslims will gather outside the few
Putin’s decision to complect his army from impoverished federal subjects ethnic Russian and non-Russian alike and his demand that these
Over the last several years, Russian analysts and commentators have talked about islands in the Baltic Sea – Gotland, the
In Soviet times, Stanislav Belkovsky says, jokes about the rulers was “a powerful channel of popular satire,” one especially powerful
In the final months of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, entire German units surrendered to the Red Army, a
The fertility rate in the Russian Federation continued to decline in 2025, down to an average of 1.374 children per
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Crimea is “no less important for the security of Russia than Greenland is for
Despite the Kremlin’s push to recruit more men to go to Ukraine and fill the depleted ranks of its army
Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine, the Kremlin does not see improving the health care of the Russian
With Putin’s war in Ukraine now having surpassed the length of the Soviet Union’s Great Fatherland War, it is long
Russians often say that their country is remarkable in that all of its domestic policies have led to the growth
Just before the Christmas holidays, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s deputy prime minister and minister of national defense, signed a...
Putin and his officials proudly claim that unemployment in Russia remains at a low 2.2 percent, but that figure captures
By Jonathan Power When it comes to war, the world does move on for the better, even as dramatic events like the
The editors of the independent Vyorstka news portal asked their journalists to predict what rights and opportunities ordinary Russians are likely to
Despite promises by Russian officials that they would prevent breakdowns in the supply of heat and water to the residents
By Jonathan Power What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS) get
When it comes to demography, and by implication much else besides, many Russian officials and experts continue to propose not
The need to dredge waterways in the southern portions of the Russian Federation has attracted increasing attention over the last
In Soviet times, Moscow’s space program competed with that of the United States; but now, it is falling behind China,
Rapidly falling water levels of the Caspian are forcing Azerbaijani ships to reduce the amount of cargo they carry by
At present, when the Moscow Patriarchate is slavishly obedient in all things to the Kremlin, it is difficult to remember
When Moscow arrests activists in the capital or in one of the major non-Russian republics, journalists and diplomats generally will
This week, Russian scholars met in Moscow to talk about Siberia; but talk is all they did, apparently committed to
During the Spanish Civil War, anti-fascist groups, including many who were allied with the Soviet Union, went into battle with
Horizontal Russia posed ten “naïve” questions to Aleksandr Morozov, a Russian political scientist. Among the many interesting answers...
As tensions rise over the possibility that Russia will divert part of the flow of Siberian rivers southward to Central
Women now form an estimated one in four of all immigrant workers in Russia, approximately one million in all. Most
In location after location across the Russian Federation, police on the beat find themselves outnumbered and even outgunned by criminals,
In the 1990s, some Russians called for Ivan the Terrible to be canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox
As Putin’s war in Ukraine drags on, some of his ideologists are insisting that “without a victory over Ukraine, Russia
The Kremlin works hard to keep its official unemployment figures low whatever the economic situation in the country, but the
Among the reasons that Vladimir Putin will not end his war against Ukraine short of a decisive victory is that
Until the last few years, discussions of Central Asia often ignored Turkmenistan because its policy of strict neutrality was accompanied
For most of his time in power, Vladimir Putin has promoted immigration to compensate for the demographic decline of the
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