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Beijing Rapidly Expanding Its Influence Across Russian Far East, With Putin’s Help – OpEd

Beijing has been rapidly expanding its influence in the economy and government offices of the Russian Far East, often with

12.12.2024 7

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Buddhist Cossacks Appear To Be Making A Comeback In Buryatia, With Ulan Ude’s Support – OpEd

Many in Moscow and the West assume to this day that all Cossacks are Russian Orthodox in religion and Russian-speaking as far as language is conerned,...

05.12.2024 4

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What’s Needed Now: A Calm Conversation About Whether World Would Be Better Off Without Russian Federation And What Is Needed For That To Happen – OpEd

No one should be surprised that Moscow is persecuting those who openly call for the demise of the Russian Federation, Sergey Chernyshov says; but at...

04.12.2024 6

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Circassians Have A Chance To Lead Coming Parade Of Exits From Muscovite State – OpEd

Below is a speech I delivered online to the Second International Conference on Independent Circassia on Nov. 23. A video of this speech is available...

02.12.2024 10

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Creeping Annexation? Moscow Expands Use Of Border Regions To Increase Influence In Neighboring Belarus – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has taken another page from Stalin’s playbook and is using the western border regions of the Russian Federation to expand Moscow’s...

28.11.2024 6

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Putin’s Order To Promote Patriotism Repeats Stalin’s ‘Almost Word For Word’ – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s May 2024 directive to use history lessons in the schools to boost patriotism and a willingness to sacrifice one’s life for Russia...

23.11.2024 5

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Russia Now Has Two Million Homeless And Their Ranks Are Growing Because Of War In Ukraine – OpEd

Although the Russian government does not release any statistics on homelessness, the Shelter (Nochlezhka) organization, the oldest group in Russia...

21.11.2024 8

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West Repeating Error Of 1980s And Overrating Moscow’s Strength And Survivability – OpEd

In the 1980s, Western governments and experts overrated both the strength and likely longevity of the Soviet Union, with many assuming it would...

15.11.2024 9

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Russia’s More Than Two Million Homeless Live On Average 19 Years Fewer Than Those With Housing – OpEd

Homelessness has long been a serious problem in Russia, although it has existed for so long that its dimensions are

01.11.2024 6

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Another Black Hundreds Group Revived In Putin’s Russia – The Union Of The Russian People – And With Official Support – OpEd

Just as took place in the last decades of the Russian Empire, extreme right and often prepared for violent Russian

28.10.2024 9

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Russia: Courts Convicting Record Numbers For Treason, Espionage, And Crimes By Military Personnel – OpEd

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has released data on convictions during the first six months of 2024. They

22.10.2024 10

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Patrushev Using New Position To Promote Changes In Russian Naval Policies That Threaten The West – OpEd

When Putin transferred Nikolay Patrushev from his position as secretary of the Russian Security Council and appointed him as a presidential assistant...

20.10.2024 9

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Despite Hype, Baku And Tehran Still Far From Agreement On Railway Connecting Azerbaijan And Nakhichevan Via Iran – OpEd

Rovshan Rustamov, head of Azerbaijan Railways, says he and his Iranian opposite number, Ali Zaqeri Sardrudi, have agreed on the

17.10.2024 5

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If Kyiv Can Force Moscow To Pursue Total Mobilization, Russia Will Collapse And Ukraine Will Win The War – OpEd

Kyiv does not need to retake all the territory currently occupied by Russian forces to defeat Moscow, Igor Eidman says. It need only force Moscow to...

09.10.2024 30

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Sri Lanka: Home-Grown ‘Color Revolution’ Needs Support Both From India And China – OpEd

By Kalinga Seneviratne At the height of Sri Lanka’s debt crisis two years ago, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar gave a talk at...

08.10.2024 7

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Russia’s ‘Silent Majority’ Doesn’t Share Putin’s Traditional Values – OpEd

A new survey says that “fewer than one percent” of Russians believe women should be restricted to the role of wife and mother while “more than...

08.10.2024 9

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Putin’s New Governor General In The Urals Faces Fateful Political Choices – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has named Artyom Zhoga, a former military man in the DNR to be the plenipotentiary for the Urals federal district, an origin that has...

06.10.2024 10

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War In Chechnya Far From Over And Will Be Major Problem For Those Who Come After Putin – OpEd

On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what many...

03.10.2024 20

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Islamist Radicalism Continues To Spread From Eastern North Caucasus Into Bi-National Republics In The Middle – OpEd

Since 1991, most of the Islamist violence in the North Caucasus has occurred in the three republics in the eastern part of that region, Dagestan,...

27.09.2024 10

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Ukrainian President Seeks Patriarchal Status For Orthodox Church Of Ukraine – OpEd

President Volodymyr Zelensky says that he has asked representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to raise the status of the...

26.09.2024 5

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Wanting To Keep Russia In One Piece Not The Same Thing As Wanting To Keep Putin In Power – OpEd

There are legitimate reasons for believing that the Russian Federation should come apart but there are also legitimate reasons for believing that it...

23.09.2024 6

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Russian Experts Concede Caspian Water Level Falling 69 Centimeters A Year, Threatening Moscow’s Economic And Military Use Of Sea – OpEd

The decline in the water level of the Caspian Sea is now increasing so fast that Russian experts now say that it will soon threaten the ability of...

22.09.2024 10

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Claiming Russia Is Fighting NATO And Not Just Ukraine Helps Kremlin Keep Russians From Asking Inconvenient Questions About Failures – OpEd

The longer the war in Ukraine has gone on, the more the Kremlin and its propagandists have insisted that Russia is opposed there not by the Ukrainians...

18.09.2024 6

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Ukraine War: UN Concerned About Prohibited Weapons Transfers – OpEd

By J Nastranis UN’s top disarmament and legal officials have warned of continued prohibited weapons transfers to Ukraine and Russia. Parties to the...

17.09.2024 5

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Russian Nationalists Likely To Play Far Larger Role After Putin Departs – OpEd

 When Putin departs from power, the role Russian may very well expand, Aleksandr Verkhovsky says; and the sooner the Kremlin leader does so, the...

17.09.2024 4

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Russia Has Exhausted The Power Generating Capacity It Inherited From Soviet Union – OpEd

Russia has exhausted the reserves of electric power generation left over from Soviet times, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov says, and today it has...

12.09.2024 8

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Because Of Ukraine War And Kremlin’s Promotion Of Toxic Masculinity, Gender Gap In Population In Russia On The Rise – OpEd

Because of war and other societal traumas in the Soviet Union, the share of men in the population of the Russian Federation is lower relative to women...

08.09.2024 7

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Ukrainian Advance In Kursk Oblast Creating A New Reality In Russia Itself – OpEd

The Kremlin has continued to lie about the Ukrainian advance in Kursk Oblast and Western analysts have dismissed it as a tactical move to draw off...

07.09.2024 4

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Russian Duma Deputy Calls For Special Terrorist Prisons In Norway’s Svalbard Or In Russia’s Novaya Zemlya – OpEd

Ivan Sukharyov, an LDPR Duma deputy, is calling for the construction of special prisons for those convicted of terrorism either in Svalbard or Novaya...

05.09.2024 6

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For Putin, War In Ukraine Is A Means Not An End In Itself – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is “a means” to broader ends rather than “a goal in itself,” Dmitry Shusharin says. Indeed, as far as he is...

02.09.2024 5

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The Real Kursk Question: Why Aren’t Russians Demanding War To Drive Ukrainian Forces Out? – OpEd

Aleksandr Morozov, head of the Free Russia Institute based in Vilnius, says that the Ukrainian advance into Russia’s Kursk Oblast

15.08.2024 5

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No Ethnic Russian Region Has An Elite Ready To Seek Independence – OpEd

Despite suggestions that predominantly ethnic Russian regions will pursue independence, Aleksandr Kynyev argues in a new book that no ethnic Russian...

09.08.2024 3

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Secessionist Challenges, Exploited Ny Putin, Almost Certainly Would Be Used By His Successors In Same Way And With Similar Success – OpEd

Vladimir Putin won Russian support by presenting himself as the man who stopped secessionist challenges in Chechnya and elsewhere, Abbas

07.08.2024 8

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Last Soviet Dissidents Stand With Today’s Opponents Of Putin’s Fascism – OpEd

Aleksandr Skobov, one of the last Soviet dissidents alive and unlikely to leave the Russian prison camp where he has been confined since being...

01.08.2024 5

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Duma Proposal Sets Stage For Broad Attack On National Autonomies In Russia – OpEd

Mikhail Matveyev, the KPRF deputy who is deputy chair of the Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Administration, has proposed replacing...

26.07.2024 4

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Church Politics Affecting Pro- And Anti-Moscow Divide In Georgia – OpEd

Nowhere have differences between the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate caused more difficulties than on the question of the status of Orthodoxy in...

20.07.2024 4

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Under Putin, Russians Have Become ‘Consumers But Not Citizens’ – OpEd

One of the most widespread beliefs among Russians is that change will come as one generation displaces another; but that did not happen in the Soviet...

16.07.2024 6

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A Rare Report From ‘The Blue Wedge’ – A Ukrainian Region In Russia Just North Of Kazakhstan – OpEd

The places in what is now the Russian Federation where Ukrainians resettled at the end of imperial times are referred to as “wedges” (kliny). The...

13.07.2024 10

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Orthodox In Kazakhstan Seeking Autocephaly Find Half-Way House In Ukrainian Uniate Congregation Subordinate To Rome – OpEd

 Even before Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine and the Moscow Patriarchate blessed that action, some churchmen in Kazakhstan hoped to...

07.07.2024 7

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Putin’s War In Ukraine May Open The Way For Civic Partnerships In Russia – OpEd

 The Russian government under Putin has long sought to promote marriages as a way to increase the birthrate and has refused to register civic...

01.07.2024 8

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After Dagestani Attacks, Moscow Seen Increasing Repression Of Muslim Dissidents – OpEd

The terrorist attacks in Dagestan, the result of the lack of consolidation among the peoples of Russia and a clear failure by Moscow’s security...

30.06.2024 6

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Putin’s Recent Personnel Moves Threaten To Spark Conspiracies Against Him – OpEd

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...

25.06.2024 10

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Putin Came To Power Because Russian Reformers Of 1990s Focused On Privatizing Economy Rather Than On Creating New Political System – OpEd

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...

18.06.2024 8

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In 1991 Russian People Wanted A Sovereign Russia, Were Ready To Give Up The Empire And Opened Way To Disintegration Of USSR – OpEd

By accusing Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Western governments of being behind the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Tsipko says, the Putin...

16.06.2024 5

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Putin Successfully Exploiting Widespread Anti-Americanism To Gain International Support – OpEd

Vladimir Putin has “very successfully” exploited both widespread anti-Americanism especially in the global south and the belief which exists there...

15.06.2024 10

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Resignation Of Gantz From War Cabinet To Have Serious Implications On The War – OpEd

By Alon Ben-Meir* The leader of the National Unity party, Benny Gantz, who resigned from the war cabinet, may well

12.06.2024 5

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Ukrainian Drones Now Attacking Russian Facilities In Non-Russian Regions – OpEd

Ukrainian drones have now hit targets in a dozen federal subjects of the Russian Federation. Most of these are predominantly

12.06.2024 5

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Russia Increasingly Faces ‘Second Generation Problem’ With Immigrants – OpEd

Russian commentators have occasionally suggested that Russia faces “a second generation” problem with its immigrant communities like the one that...

08.06.2024 9

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Turning Point In South Caucasus: Border Guards Replace Military Units Along Newly Delimited Portion Of Armenian-Azerbaijani Border – OpEd

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...

27.05.2024 30

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Putin’s Visit To Harbin Speaks Volumes About Growing Chinese Self-Confidence – OpEd

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...

26.05.2024 40

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