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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...

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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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Under Guise Of ‘Joint Development,’ Is Putin Setting Stage For Transferring Russian Land To China? – OpEd

At his recent summit meeting with Chinese leaders, Vladimir Putin signed an agreement calling for “the joint development” of disputed islands in...

23.05.2024 20

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Environmental Issues May Soon Affect Armenian-Azerbaijani Border Dispute – OpEd

Armenian and Azerbaijani officials have been making progress in the delimitation of the state border between them, despite the difficulties left over...

20.05.2024 10

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Moscow Should Draw On History Of Komintern To Overthrow Existing World Order, Naryshkin Says – OpEd

Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR, says that Russia should draw on the experience of the Communist International (Komintern), a Soviet-led union of...

19.05.2024 40

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Putin Goes Far Beyond Stalin In Defending All Russian Actions Against Non-Russians – OpEd

Vladimir Putin’s new decree goes far beyond Stalin in defending all Russian actions against non-Russians past and present and in

13.05.2024 40

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Russia Removes Guards From Armenian-Azerbaijani Border, But Not From Borders With Iran And Turkey, Kremlin Says – OpEd

At Yerevan’s request and in a way consistent with Moscow’s withdrawal of its so-called “peacekeepers” from Azerbaijani territory, the Russian

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‘Cold Schism’ In Orthodox World Likely To Become ‘Hot’ If Moscow Church Continues To Back Kremlin And War At Home And Abroad – OpEd

The Moscow Patriarchate’s unqualified support for Putin’s aggression abroad and repression at home has already led to the isolation of the Russian...

09.05.2024 40

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Iran Wants To Expand Its Influence In Central Asia And Use Tajikistan To Help It Do So – OpEd

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...

07.05.2024 20

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Lukashenka Intensifying Repression Against Belarusians At Home And Abroad – OpEd

Since the start of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been intensifying his repression of Belarusians at home and of Belarusians in...

06.05.2024 10

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Moscow Expanding Contacts Between Russian Regions And Belarusian Ones – OpEd

Moscow has stepped up its effort to expand contacts between regions in the Russian Federation and regions in Belarus, in support of closer integration...

04.05.2024 40

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While Kremlin Focuses On Ukraine, Rest Of Post-Soviet Space ‘Disappearing Before Our Eyes’ – OpEd

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...

02.05.2024 30

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Russian Justice Ministry Calls For Declaring Non-Existent ‘Anti-Russian Separatist Movement’ An ‘Extremist’ Organization

 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...

28.04.2024 10

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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...

22.04.2024 40

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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 20

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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 10

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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 8

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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 4

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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 10

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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 9

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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 10

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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 8

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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 10

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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 30

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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 10

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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 20

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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 30

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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 10

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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 20

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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 3

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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 20

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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 30

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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 10

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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 10

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