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Over the course of the last month, Vladimir Putin has offended large swaths of his entourage by firing or demoting officials but leaving them or their...
Russian liberal reformers in the 1990s laid the groundwork for the rise of a ruler like Putin by using despotic means to achieve the liberal goal of...
By accusing Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Western governments of being behind the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Tsipko says, the Putin...
Vladimir Putin has “very successfully” exploited both widespread anti-Americanism especially in the global south and the belief which exists there...
By Alon Ben-Meir* The leader of the National Unity party, Benny Gantz, who resigned from the war cabinet, may well
Ukrainian drones have now hit targets in a dozen federal subjects of the Russian Federation. Most of these are predominantly
Russian commentators have occasionally suggested that Russia faces “a second generation” problem with its immigrant communities like the one that...
In April, Yerevan and Baku agreed on the delimitation of the Armenian-Azerbaijan border in the north the return to Azerbaijan of four villages to...
During his time in China, Vladimir Putin for the first time visited Harbin, a city in northeastern China near the Russian border that was founded by...
At his recent summit meeting with Chinese leaders, Vladimir Putin signed an agreement calling for “the joint development” of disputed islands in...
Armenian and Azerbaijani officials have been making progress in the delimitation of the state border between them, despite the difficulties left over...
Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR, says that Russia should draw on the experience of the Communist International (Komintern), a Soviet-led union of...
Vladimir Putin’s new decree goes far beyond Stalin in defending all Russian actions against non-Russians past and present and in
At Yerevan’s request and in a way consistent with Moscow’s withdrawal of its so-called “peacekeepers” from Azerbaijani territory, the Russian
The Moscow Patriarchate’s unqualified support for Putin’s aggression abroad and repression at home has already led to the isolation of the Russian...
Over the last two years, Tehran has sought to increase its influence in Central Asia, convinced that changes in the region and more broadly make that...
Since the start of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been intensifying his repression of Belarusians at home and of Belarusians in...
Moscow has stepped up its effort to expand contacts between regions in the Russian Federation and regions in Belarus, in support of closer integration...
The Putin regime’s obsessive focus on Ukraine is not only isolating Russia from the West but it is reducing Moscow’s influence across the former...
Last fall, Grigory Golosov, a professor at St. Petersburg’s European University, said that Moscow has come up with a new means of going after...
Russian and international media have devoted enormous attention to Moscow’s decision to withdraw its so-called “peace keepers” from Azerbaijan...
Moscow has always assumed that the Central Asian countries would remain in its corner because of their authoritarian leaderships and the lack of an...
Over the last two years, the number of Russians who refuse to answer pollsters’ questions has soared, a trend that calls into question all claims...
The majority of the 2,440,000 people living in Russia’s enormous Arctic zone are working-age men who are often do not remain there for long even...
The Congress of the League of Free Nations which took place in Estonia April 6-7 provided not only many insights about the direction such groups are...
By Jonathan Power* “Diplomacy is back”, President Joe Biden said shortly after becoming president. But then, in the middle of a delicate...
In the past few days, what Russian officials refer to as “telephone terrorism” – the calling in of warnings that bombs have been placed in...
The synod of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has declared that the idea of “a Russian world” now being pushed by Patriarch...
It is sadly no surprise that the Kremlin has now arrested Aleksandr Skobov, a dissident in Soviet times and a dissident in post-Soviet ones, because...
In a development with potentially far-reaching consequences, Moscow is now working to ensure that its propaganda is carried by Kazakh-language print...
After Baku restored Azerbaijani control over Karabakh last fall and the Armenian authorities there announced the dissolution of the breakaway republic...
The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack is the latest example of the West’s longstanding effort to set Russia’s Christians and Russia’s Muslims...
The 2020/21 Russian census, most experts and observers say, suffered from serious shortcomings: It took place during the covid pandemic, and large...
Just like earlier Russian emigrations, many who fled Russia in disgust and fear after Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine assumed that...
In the just-completed Russian presidential elections, Denis Volkov says, “everyone played their assigned roles: the loyal majority rallied around...
Russians have traditionally put their money into real estate viewing it as the perhaps the safest defense against future shocks. Consequently, prices...
Moscow has a long history of using border regions to expand Russian influence in neighboring countries, but in the case of Moldova, a country with...
Many of the mistakes Western elites have made about Russia and that Moscow elites have made about their own county arise from misconceptions each has...
Until very recently, the Muslim community in Lithuania was small, the remnant of the Tatars who came to that country half a millenium ago. But now, as...
The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate faces mounting problems in all three countries of the South Caucasus despite the fact that...
Despite the economic squeeze between rising prices and stable or falling incomes that many Russians feel, residents of that country last year, faced...
Some Russians may not like the influx of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan because they are culturally and linguistically distinct, but...
The Russian anti-war “Go Through the Forest” project has declared February 29th the Day of the Deserter, to change the image of those who flee...
Having no project for the future, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has sought to find one in the past; but he has so distorted that past for his...
This week, Azerbaijanis and Armenians are commemorating the anniversaries of two of the greatest tragedies in their long-running conflict, with
The idea that the Russian people can peacefully overthrow the Putin dictatorship is the product of the experience of Eastern European countries after...
Two years after Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine, that war has been transformed from an event into “a fact of life,” Anastasiya...
On the 80th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of the Chechens and Ingush, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada voted to recognize the right of the Ingush...
The murder of Aleksey Navalny, Vladimir Pastukhov says, represents the end of one act of Putin’s “’reactionary revolution,’” in which the...
The world must understand that Putin by murdering Aleksey Navalny has “opened the abyss of permissiveness” to dictators everywhere, including in...