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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
The average pension in the Russian Federation has fallen this year to 24 percent of average wages and salaries of
Because of differences in the topography of the coastline and in the depth of coastal waters, the rapid fall in
Given the centrality of Soviet participation in World War II for Putin and the Russian people today, it is disturbing
It remains an article of faith in the Kremlin and is widely accepted by many analysts in the West that
Most people see a market economy and totalitarianism as antithetical phenomena and believe that where one exists, the other cannot.
By James E. Jennings Last Monday’s show at the White House featured a smug-faced Prime Minister Netanyahu and a rambling,
Many in the West in response to Lukashenka’s release of a few political prisoners suggested that “a thaw” was taking
The demographic crisis Russia now faces is “far more dangerous” and will be far more difficult to solve than was
By Jonathan Power The words still ring in policy-makers’ ears from Harvard Professor Samuel Huntington’s famous treatise, The Clash of Civilizations.
The Forum of Free Peoples of Post-Russia has succeeded in calling attention to the fact that the Muscovite empire is
In the more than three years since Putin began his expanded war in Ukraine, Russian yards have built only one
If Russia admits and retains as many immigrants as it currently does for the rest of this century, its population
In an acknowledgement of how serious Russia’s demographic problems now are, the Russian government has now directed the labor, health
For most of the last three decades, Putin has made the development of the Northern Sea Route his focus for
The decline in the water level of the Caspian Sea, the result of global warming and decreasing flows of rivers
There has long been a debate about what closures in rural areas mark the approaching death of towns and villages.
As border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia erupted to five days of fighting before a ceasefire was declared, reports of
There is a widespread notion that today’s United Russia Party is like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and
The water level of the Caspian Sea has fallen to its lowest level in recorded history, restricting the ability of
Since the beginning of Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine, “a minimum” of 12 Russian generals have died, most near the
With its “unerring intuition,” the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has declared Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin “a mistake,” thus
Putin’s “40-year-old managers” are increasingly important players in his political system, are committed to continuity so that they keep their
One of the aspects of international negotiations often neglected by outside observers is that the greatest progress is made on
Despite what Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky says, Moscow transferred Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 not
Moscow is celebrating its registration of the 100,000th member of the numerically small peoples of the North and Far East...
By Alon Ben-Meir The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one’s head and
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