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Why Won't This Russian Opposition Politician Watch His Language?

Why Won't This Russian Opposition Politician Watch His Language?

How many good ideas over recent years and decades have been ruined for the sole reason they were expressed rudely? Take Leonid Volkov, one of the...

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Valery Panyushkin

Who Will Take Responsibility for the Foreign Fighters Recruited for Russia’s War?

Who Will Take Responsibility for the Foreign Fighters Recruited for Russia’s War?

Azerbaijan and Iran have responded very differently to reports that Russia is recruiting their citizens to fight in Ukraine, which Moscow denies....

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Nigar Hasanova

Russians Feel Inflation Is Higher Than Officials Say. Are They Correct?

Russians Feel Inflation Is Higher Than Officials Say. Are They Correct?

People generally have little faith in statistics and the overwhelming majority of Russians are convinced that Rosstat deliberately understates...

14.01.2026 20

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Dmitry Nekrasov

Russia’s Ukraine War Lasting Longer Than Its WWII Fight Shatters Its Myth of Military Supremacy

Russia’s Ukraine War Lasting Longer Than Its WWII Fight Shatters Its Myth of Military Supremacy

Jan. 11 marked a new milestone for the war in Ukraine: 1,418 days. That is how long the Soviet army fought against Germany from June 22, 1941,...

12.01.2026 20

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Elena Davlikanova

Here’s What it Means to Be an ‘Extremist’ in Today’s Russia

Here’s What it Means to Be an ‘Extremist’ in Today’s Russia

A Russian court has declared Pussy Riot an extremist organization. What does this mean in practice? To begin with, it means that if you now write...

07.01.2026 1

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Maria Alyokhina