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Key Takeaways: Many Russians, when they hear the word “decolonization,” think that it is the same thing as the disintegration
Key Takeaways: Three weeks ago, a Norwegian court allowed for the seizure of a Russian ship in Svalbard in fulfillment
Key Takeaways: Western analysts constantly propose possible successors to Vladimir Putin and even seek to handicap them in much the
Key Takeaways: Under Putin, the Duma has been transformed from a place where regional and bureaucratic interests were fought out
In every Russian election since Gorbachev’s time, observers have expressed concern that electoral campaigns will exacerbate inter-ethnic relations...
Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in 2022, guns from that conflict have been flooding into the Russian
On September 1, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that he believes that “Turkey will reclaim Adjara,” a 400,000-strong autonomous
Key Takeaways: Moscow continue to promote the myth that Russia was never an empire but a liberator and provider of
Key Takeaways: In a world where it is increasingly difficult to separate satire from reality, Sergey Aksyonov, a Svobodnaya Pressa commentator, argues
The development of the Trans-Arctic Transportation Corridor, which includes the Northern Sea Route, will cost more than 120 billion US
Key Takeaways: Ever more people around the world recognize that the Russian Federation includes a variety of non-Russian nations who
In 2020, the water level of the Caspian fell by eight centimeters; but last year, it fell by 23, despite
Key Takeaways: Moscow invariably suggests that the Northern Sea Route will beat out the Suez Canal as the primary sea
Key Takeaways: The outcome of the elections to the new single chamber Kazakhstan parliament shows the direction that party building
Key Takeaways: Roughly a quarter of Armenia’s GDP consists of transfer payments by Armenians working in the Russian Federation; and
Key Takeaways: Moscow officials and Russian nationalists have long referred to the 17 countries – the 12 former Soviet republics,
Any individual, group or country which is part of a larger structure created by others which have done so to
Aleksandr Dugin, the outspoken Russian philosopher who has enormous influence on the Kremlin, says that the populations of Moscow and
Key Takeaways Abbas Gallyamov, a former Putin speechwriter who is now a fierce critic of the Russian president, says that
Because Moscow has failed for 25 years to do much to modernize the water supply networks of Russia, Ukrainian drone
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says his government is sending Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
Many assume that Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s regular statements of support for Putin’s war in Ukraine set the weather for Orthodox priests
The number of single-person households in Russia is increasing rapidly both because of the share of younger Russians who have
Despite being at war, something that usually drives up church attendance, Russian Orthodox Churches are drawing ever fewer attendees at
During his July 25 meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev offered a new model for non-Russian leaders dealing
One of the reasons drones are so effective is that they fly so low that until they are very close
Key Takeaways: More than half of Russia’s network of 250,000 km of oil pipelines are worn out and have leaked
Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian journalist and activist for the Polish minority in that country who has received a Sakharov Prize
Key Takeaways: Since the US Congress in 1959 required that the president declare the third week of July Captive Nations
Key Takeaways: The northern segment of the Caspian is historically and geologically much shallower than the southern part, Rauf Mammadov
Key Takeaways: “Max Weber described the state as a structure possessing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force” but
The Russian foreign ministry says that Moscow is now finalizing plans to files suit in the International Criminal Court against
In the course of the last three decades, the Caspian Sea has declined in size by an area the size
Key Takeaways: It is often forgotten that in the 1920s, Germany was divided between those who favored breaking it up
Key Takeaways Eight of the ten republics and regions in the Russian Federation that Ukrainian scholars have examined are capable
Key Takeaways Many Moscow commentators and politicians are suggesting that Russia’s future should involve the restoration of the Soviet system,
Key Takeaways The Estonian interior ministry has sent a letter to all religious associations in that Baltic country that they
The Russian defense ministry is preparing a law that will severely limit the ability of soldiers wounded in combat or
Reflecting the increasing dominance of the ethnic Kazakhs in Kazakhstan’s population and Astana’s commitment to building a unified civic society,
For Putin, elections remain critically important even though their results are pre-ordained because they serve as a means of “testing
The governors of three federal subjects – Penza, Transbaikal and Irkutsk – have declared a high state of alert because
Whenever one country annexes part of another as Russia did with Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, many observers immediately ask whether
The UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexualized Violence in Conflict for the first time ever has included
The Lenin State Library in Moscow is setting up a special restricted access collection (in Russian, spetskran) to hold what officials
Conspiracy theories about the demise of the USSR, associated in the first instance with publicist Yevgeny Spitsyn, are intended to
The Russian authorities have arrested on a variety of charges ten senior Muslim leaders, an action that some are linking
The four Azerbaijani exclaves in Armenia and the three Armenian ones in Azerbaijan, marked on Soviet maps but largely depopulated
Before Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian military tried to avoid drafting those with
On April 11, Dmitry Muratov who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in promoting independent journalism in Putin’s
Sergey Davidis, a longtime Memorial activist now in emigration, says that the main cause behind the decision to declare Memorial