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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...
While non-Russians inside the Russian Federation and in the post-Soviet states have been horrified by the Kremlin’s murder of Aleksey Navalny, they...
Recent events, including not only the murder of Aleksey Navalny but the Kremlin’s aggression at home and abroad show that “Russia won’t be able...
Mongolia’s decision to build hydro-electric dams to solve its domestic electricity shortage, a decision that Beijing has backed by financing the...
Activists from the three largest Buddhist nations in the Russian Federation – Buryats, Kalmyks and Tuvins – the first two of which speak languages...
Although Committee for Ingush Independence emerged just over a year ago, its specific program beyond seeking to take advantage of the looming collapse...
Speaking in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin said demographers “don’t know anything” and thus he has to figure out what to do, a manifestation of...
One of the great tragedies of our time is the increasingly short-time horizons people and governments have about what they do and what is happening....
By allowing first the Wagner PMC and then the regular Russian army to recruit in Russian prisons with promises of pardons for those who agreed to...
By Kalinga Seneviratne The grand consecration of the idol of Lord Ram at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in northern India on January 22, which was...
Many are inclined to say that “Russia is attacking Russia because that is the nature of Russia,” Vasily Zharkov says; but such an essentialist...
The Moscow Patriarchate’s insistence on appointing Russian citizens to head branches of the Russian Orthodox Church in former Soviet republics and...
Russians are more confident about how their own lives will proceed in the future than they are about how their country will develop, with young people...
Aleksandr Dugin’s Eurasianism has the same philosophical foundation as his earlier national bolshevism and thus little in common with the messianism...
In many countries around the world, outbursts of anti-Semitism in recent weeks are the result of public reactions to the war in the Middle East,...
Many Russians to this day believe that Aleksandr Nevsky was right to make an alliance with the Mongols because he was fighting against not only the...
Putin’s fascism, like fascism of all kinds, seeks to homogenize everything by destroying all exceptions to its rules, Mark Lipovetsky says; but it...
Muslim leaders in the Russian Federation have long been alarmed by the propensity of many Russian officials and ordinary Russians as well to lump...
The US embassy in Moscow posted a New Year’s greeting online from the people of America to the people of Russia noting that “we have managed to...
The number of breakdowns in Russia’s already stressed utility system which involves supplying electricity, water and heat to millions of its...
Russians are obsessed with the ways in which their country has been isolated in terms of international athletic competitions, Kirill Shulika says; but...