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Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, a senior member of the Verkhovna Rada, says that he and others in Kyiv view the peoples of
The Russian Federation currently lacks the number of ethnic specialists needed to address nationality issues, participants in a hearing of
Vladimir Putin has benefitted throughout his time as Russian president by the constant references in Russian and foreign media to
Kremlin propagandists have succeeded in attracting worldwide attention to the ways in which the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine has moved to...
Declining water levels in the Caspian are reducing the amount of cargo ships on that body of water can carry
Neither Putin nor Trump is a fascist in the classical sense, and neither in fact are neo-fascists, Vladimir Pastukhov says.
At the end of February, Bishkek and Dushanbe announced the conclusion of an agreement about the disputed border between them.
Russia is a police state with an unusual problem: it doesn’t have enough policemen to man the front lines. As
Igor Eidman, a Russian sociologist who now lives in Berlin exile, says that under President Donald Trump, the ruling elite
For more than a century, Russians have talked about the possibility of diverting water from Siberia’s rivers to Central Asia
Anyone reading the Western press or what is left of its Russian counterpart this week will have been struck by
In order to fight crime and prevent the emergence of ethnic enclaves, St. Peterburg plans to upgrade its CCTV cameras
Until very recently, it was a commonplace among Western commentators on Ukraine that Western Ukraine, the portion that Stalin annexed
Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, many commentators have focused on the way that war has
Since Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russians have increasingly turned to fortune tells and other
In a new book, Amusing Russia. 228 Answers, Sergey Shelin argues that Vladimir Putin is concerned only with himself and
Assad’s ouster not only is likely to cost Russia its military bases in Syria but also to drive from office
By Peter Jacobsen Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, recently made a big announcement: the platforms are going to stop fact-checking
Between 1953 and 1990, more than 1200 members of the Soviet elite fled abroad, individual actions that Western governments supported
The possibilities of ending the war in Ukraine by negotiation can be understood only if one is clear about the
By Patrick Carroll In a subdued press conference on Monday morning, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he plans to step down...
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...
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...
Two Danish possessions in the north Atlantic, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, are attracting increasing attention in Washington, where President-...
Beijing has been rapidly expanding its influence in the economy and government offices of the Russian Far East, often with Vladimir Putin’s help...
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...
No one should be surprised that Moscow is persecuting those who openly call for the demise of the Russian Federation, Sergey Chernyshov says; but...
Below is a speech I delivered online to the Second International Conference on Independent Circassia on Nov. 23. A video of this speech is...
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...
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...
Although the Russian government does not release any statistics on homelessness, the Shelter (Nochlezhka) organization, the oldest group in Russia...
In the 1980s, Western governments and experts overrated both the strength and likely longevity of the Soviet Union, with many assuming it would...
Homelessness has long been a serious problem in Russia, although it has existed for so long that its dimensions are typically ignored. But new...
Just as took place in the last decades of the Russian Empire, extreme right and often prepared for violent Russian nationalist organizations are...
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has released data on convictions during the first six months of 2024. They show that courts there...
When Putin transferred Nikolay Patrushev from his position as secretary of the Russian Security Council and appointed him as a presidential...
Rovshan Rustamov, head of Azerbaijan Railways, says he and his Iranian opposite number, Ali Zaqeri Sardrudi, have agreed on the construction of a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what...
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,...
President Volodymyr Zelensky says that he has asked representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to raise the status of the...
There are legitimate reasons for believing that the Russian Federation should come apart but there are also legitimate reasons for believing that...
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...
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...
By J Nastranis UN’s top disarmament and legal officials have warned of continued prohibited weapons transfers to Ukraine and Russia. Parties to the...
When Putin departs from power, the role Russian may very well expand, Aleksandr Verkhovsky says; and the sooner the Kremlin leader does so, the...
Russia has exhausted the reserves of electric power generation left over from Soviet times, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov says, and today it has...