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Withdrawal Of Russian Troops From Armenia Could Prove Even More Fateful Than Their Pullout From Azerbaijan – OpEd

Russian and international media have devoted enormous attention to Moscow’s decision to withdraw its so-called “peace keepers” from Azerbaijan...

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Given Russian Response To Terrorist Attack, Central Asian Countries Are ‘Moving Away’ From Moscow – OpEd

Moscow has always assumed that the Central Asian countries would remain in its corner because of their authoritarian leaderships and the lack of an...

18.04.2024 10

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Latent Disloyalty Among Russians Now So Great It Could Explode In Kremlin’s Face In A Crisis – OpEd

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...

16.04.2024 10

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Russia’s Lack Of Infrastructure Makes It Hard To Improve Lives Of Arctic Zone Residents – OpEd

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...

14.04.2024 5

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Is The Russian Federation Set To Fall Apart On Its Own? – OpEd

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...

13.04.2024 5

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New Militarism: Biden Is Doing Very Things He Criticized During His Campaign – OpEd

By Jonathan Power* “Diplomacy is back”, President Joe Biden said shortly after becoming president. But then, in the middle of a delicate...

11.04.2024 3

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Telephone Terrorism Returns To Russia, Lengthening Shadow Of Crocus City Hall Attack – OpEd

 In the past few days, what Russian officials refer to as “telephone terrorism” – the calling in of warnings that bombs have been placed in...

11.04.2024 10

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Moscow Church In Estonia Rejects ‘Russian World’ As Being At Odds With The Gospels – OpEd

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...

09.04.2024 4

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Kremlin Arrests Aleksandr Skobov, A Russian Who Has Exposed Dangers Putin Represents To World – OpEd

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...

07.04.2024 5

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In Kazakhstan, Moscow Now Working Hard To Ensure Its Propaganda Appears In Kazakh-Language Outlets – OpEd

 In a development with potentially far-reaching consequences, Moscow is now working to ensure that its propaganda is carried by Kazakh-language print...

06.04.2024 8

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Only 1,437 Of More Than 100,000 Ethnic Armenians Who Fled Karabakh Have Applied For Armenian Republic Citizenship – OpEd

After Baku restored Azerbaijani control over Karabakh last fall and the Armenian authorities there announced the dissolution of the breakaway republic...

04.04.2024 7

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Patriarch Kirill Says West Trying To Set Muslims And Christians In Russia Against One Another Just As It Did In Yugoslavia in 1990s – OpEd

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...

01.04.2024 4

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Shortcomings Of Last Russian Census Contributing To Policy Mistakes Now – OpEd

The 2020/21 Russian census, most experts and observers say, suffered from serious shortcomings: It took place during the covid pandemic, and large...

31.03.2024 5

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Russian Emigres Must Change Their Focus Given Prospect Of A Long Putin Dictatorship – OpEd

Just like earlier Russian emigrations, many who fled Russia in disgust and fear after Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine assumed that...

28.03.2024 2

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In Russia’s Presidential Elections ‘Everyone Played Their Assigned Roles’ – OpEd

In the just-completed Russian presidential elections, Denis Volkov says, “everyone played their assigned roles: the loyal majority rallied around...

26.03.2024 7

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Sign Of Trouble Ahead: Housing Prices Dropping In Russia’s Largest Cities Despite Growing Populations – OpEd

Russians have traditionally put their money into real estate viewing it as the perhaps the safest defense against future shocks. Consequently, prices...

22.03.2024 4

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Moscow Using Russian Regions To Promote Separatism On Moldova – OpEd

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...

17.03.2024 7

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West Mistakenly Thinks Russia In Terminal Decline, While Moscow Elites Wrongly Believe They Can Restore Its Superpower Status – OpEd

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...

16.03.2024 10

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Lithuania: Muslim Community Has Grown From 3,000 A Few Years Ago To More Than 15,000 – OpEd

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...

12.03.2024 5

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Moscow Patriarchate Faces Mounting Problems In All Three Countries Of South Caucasus – OpEd

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate faces mounting problems in all three countries of the South Caucasus despite the fact that...

11.03.2024 5

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Russians Spent More Than $20 Billion On Fortune Tellers Last Year But Moscow Not Ready To Rein In This Business Sector – OpEd

Despite the economic squeeze between rising prices and stable or falling incomes that many Russians feel, residents of that country last year, faced...

09.03.2024 10

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Future Waves Of Immigration To Russia Seen Coming From Africa And India – OpEd

Some Russians may not like the influx of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan because they are culturally and linguistically distinct, but...

07.03.2024 3

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Russia Seeks To Stop Desertions From Military – OpEd

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...

06.03.2024 2

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Putin’s Extensive Imperialism Leading Russia Into A Dead End – OpEd

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...

04.03.2024 2

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Azerbaijanis, Armenians Commemorate Two Horrific Tragedies Of Their War – OpEd

This week, Azerbaijanis and Armenians are commemorating the anniversaries of two of the greatest tragedies in their long-running conflict, with

03.03.2024 6

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Idea That Russian People Can Peacefully Overthrow Kremlin Dictatorship Is A Myth – OpEd

The idea that the Russian people can peacefully overthrow the Putin dictatorship is the product of the experience of Eastern European countries after...

01.03.2024 10

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After Two Years Of War, Russians May Look Same Externally But They’ve Changed Internally In Fundamental Ways – OpEd

Two years after Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine, that war has been transformed from an event into “a fact of life,” Anastasiya...

29.02.2024 20

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Ukrainian Parliament Recognizes Right Of Ingush People To Form An Independent State – OpEd

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...

28.02.2024 3

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After Killing Navalny, Who Is Next? – OpEd

The murder of Aleksey Navalny, Vladimir Pastukhov says, represents the end of one act of Putin’s “’reactionary revolution,’” in which the...

25.02.2024 4

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Putin’s Murder Of Navalny Gives Permission To Dictators Everywhere To Do Their Worst – OpEd

The world must understand that Putin by murdering Aleksey Navalny has “opened the abyss of permissiveness” to dictators everywhere, including in...

23.02.2024 5

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Non-Russians At Home And Abroad Haven’t Forgotten Navalny’s Earlier Xenophobic Positions – OpEd

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...

22.02.2024 10

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Russia ‘Can’t Free Itself From Putin’s Madness On Its Own’ – OpEd

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...

21.02.2024 6

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Mongolia’s Beijing-Financed Hydro-Electric Dams Threaten Lake Baikal – OpEd

Mongolia’s decision to build hydro-electric dams to solve its domestic electricity shortage, a decision that Beijing has backed by financing the...

20.02.2024 10

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Russia’s Buddhist Nations Want Ulan Bator To Adopt Compatriots Law To Make It Easier For Them To Move To Mongolia – OpEd

Activists from the three largest Buddhist nations in the Russian Federation – Buryats, Kalmyks and Tuvins – the first two of which speak languages...

04.02.2024 9

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Ingushetia Independence Movement Commits To Future Republic Based On Moderate Ingush Islam – OpEd

Although Committee for Ingush Independence emerged just over a year ago, its specific program beyond seeking to take advantage of the looming collapse...

03.02.2024 4

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Putin Shamelessly Flaunts His ‘Militant Dilettantism’ – OpEd

Speaking in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin said demographers “don’t know anything” and thus he has to figure out what to do, a manifestation of...

31.01.2024 5

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Russia Just Now Beginning To Feel Full Weight Of Sanctions – OpEd

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....

29.01.2024 10

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Two-Thirds Of Former Russian Convicts Pardoned For Fighting In Ukraine Earlier Had Been Found Guilty Of Murder – OpEd

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...

27.01.2024 5

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India: Grand Temple Consecration May Pave Path To A Hindu Republic – OpEd

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...

25.01.2024 9

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Russia Didn’t Invade Ukraine Because Of What It Has Always Been But Because Of What It Became Over Last 30 Years – OpEd

Many are inclined to say that “Russia is attacking Russia because that is the nature of Russia,” Vasily Zharkov says; but such an essentialist...

25.01.2024 5

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Moscow Patriarch’s Policies Making ‘Estonian Compromise’ Impossible There And Elsewhere – OpEd

The Moscow Patriarchate’s insistence on appointing Russian citizens to head branches of the Russian Orthodox Church in former Soviet republics and...

23.01.2024 5

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Russians More Certain About Their Personal Futures Than About Future Of Their Country – OpEd

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...

21.01.2024 4

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Dugin’s Eurasianism Based On Same Mistaken Principles As His National Bolshevism – OpEd

Aleksandr Dugin’s Eurasianism has the same philosophical foundation as his earlier national bolshevism and thus little in common with the messianism...

20.01.2024 7

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Kremlin Propaganda Behind New Wave Of Anti-Semitism In Russia – OpEd

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,...

18.01.2024 4

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Anti-Catholicism Spreading In Moscow And Minsk – OpEd

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...

17.01.2024 9

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‘Cynical Consensus’ In Russia Makes Putin’s Fascism Especially Dangerous – OpEd

Putin’s fascism, like fascism of all kinds, seeks to homogenize everything by destroying all exceptions to its rules, Mark Lipovetsky says; but it...

14.01.2024 30

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Russian Guard Raids On Muslim Facilities Undermining Patriotism Of Believers – OpEd

Muslim leaders in the Russian Federation have long been alarmed by the propensity of many Russian officials and ordinary Russians as well to lump...

08.01.2024 9

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Duma Deputy Denounces US New Year’s Greeting To Russian People As ‘Interference In Internal Affairs Of Russia’ – OpEd

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...

04.01.2024 4

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Russia: Utility Breakdowns Almost Doubled From 2022 To 2023, Pointing Toward Infrastructure Collapse – OpEd

The number of breakdowns in Russia’s already stressed utility system which involves supplying electricity, water and heat to millions of its...

02.01.2024 3

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Russia’s Growing Cultural Isolation Leading To Stagnation – OpEd

Russians are obsessed with the ways in which their country has been isolated in terms of international athletic competitions, Kirill Shulika says; but...

31.12.2023 10

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