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Beijing has been rapidly expanding its influence in the economy and government offices of the Russian Far East, often with
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Although the Russian government does not release any statistics on homelessness, the Shelter (Nochlezhka) organization, the oldest group in Russia...
In the 1980s, Western governments and experts overrated both the strength and likely longevity of the Soviet Union, with many assuming it would...
Homelessness has long been a serious problem in Russia, although it has existed for so long that its dimensions are
Just as took place in the last decades of the Russian Empire, extreme right and often prepared for violent Russian
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has released data on convictions during the first six months of 2024. They
When Putin transferred Nikolay Patrushev from his position as secretary of the Russian Security Council and appointed him as a presidential assistant...
Rovshan Rustamov, head of Azerbaijan Railways, says he and his Iranian opposite number, Ali Zaqeri Sardrudi, have agreed on the
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the second post-Soviet Chechen war, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky says that that conflict is, despite what many...
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,...
President Volodymyr Zelensky says that he has asked representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to raise the status of the...
There are legitimate reasons for believing that the Russian Federation should come apart but there are also legitimate reasons for believing that it...
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...
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...
By J Nastranis UN’s top disarmament and legal officials have warned of continued prohibited weapons transfers to Ukraine and Russia. Parties to the...
When Putin departs from power, the role Russian may very well expand, Aleksandr Verkhovsky says; and the sooner the Kremlin leader does so, the...
Russia has exhausted the reserves of electric power generation left over from Soviet times, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov says, and today it has...
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...
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...
Ivan Sukharyov, an LDPR Duma deputy, is calling for the construction of special prisons for those convicted of terrorism either in Svalbard or Novaya...
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...
Aleksandr Morozov, head of the Free Russia Institute based in Vilnius, says that the Ukrainian advance into Russia’s Kursk Oblast
Despite suggestions that predominantly ethnic Russian regions will pursue independence, Aleksandr Kynyev argues in a new book that no ethnic Russian...
Vladimir Putin won Russian support by presenting himself as the man who stopped secessionist challenges in Chechnya and elsewhere, Abbas
Aleksandr Skobov, one of the last Soviet dissidents alive and unlikely to leave the Russian prison camp where he has been confined since being...
Mikhail Matveyev, the KPRF deputy who is deputy chair of the Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Administration, has proposed replacing...
Nowhere have differences between the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate caused more difficulties than on the question of the status of Orthodoxy in...
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...
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...
Even before Putin launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine and the Moscow Patriarchate blessed that action, some churchmen in Kazakhstan hoped to...
The Russian government under Putin has long sought to promote marriages as a way to increase the birthrate and has refused to register civic...
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...
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...