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Artyom Shraibman
The Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is releasing some political prisoners, in exchange for US president Trump lifting some santions. However, Lukashenko can easily fill entire prisons with...
Alexander Gabuev
Moscow should be looking for ways to correct its course and restore balance in its foreign policy, instead of putting all its eggs in the China basket. But Putin is no pragmatic decision-maker, and...
Hanna Mamonova
Op het Onafhankelijkheidsplein in Kyiv is een monument ontstaan dat nooit officieel werd opgericht. Wat begon met één vlaggetje voor een gesneuvelde soldaat, groeide uit tot zee van banieren,...
Azattyq Asia & Current Time
Russia has recruited thousands of Central Asian nationals for its war against Ukraine, including migrant workers and convicts. RFE/RL's Azattyk Media and Current Time report that while Central Asian...
Maxim Trudolyubov
While Putin suggests a willingness to extend the war if his demands are not met by the West and Ukraine, the Kremlin is also preparing for life in Russia after the war. In an essay written before...
Steve Gutterman
In Putin’s Russia of 2025, dystopia meets science fiction: a state-backed program is testing thousands of children to identify 'leaders' and 'anti-leaders' through neuroprofiling. As the war in...
Alya Shandra
Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets last week to protest against a new law which undermines the independence of two key anticorruption institutions. Many of these protesters were young, and...
Alexey Uvarov
Russia’s exclusion from international organizations has affected its position in global politics. But the isolation didn’t alter the Kremlin's policies. Russia has partially mitigated its...
Javid Agha
Last June, violent raids by Russian special forces in Yekaterinburg targeting ethnic Azerbaijanis resulted in the deaths of two Azerbaijani brothers while in police custody....
Anna Volynets
Na het stopzetten van Amerikaanse financiering zagen sommige redacties van Belarussische media 70% van hun budget verdampen. Slagen de media in ballingschap er nog in om mensen in Belarus van...
Kirill Shanghaisky
For over three years, families of mobilized Russian soldiers have protested against the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. So far, these protests have not posed a significant political...
Artjom Sjrajbman
Op 21 juni kwam onverwacht de Belarussische oppositie-activist Sergej Tichanovski vrij, een van de belangrijkste gezichten van de anti-regeringsprotesten van 2020. Volgens Belarussisch...
Sergei Lebedev
The Soviet Union called the occupation of the Baltics after 1945 a ‘liberation’, but it did not deliver freedom. On the contrary, it occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Eight decades later,...
Olga Loiko
Alexander Lukashenko is tightening his grip on the Belarusian economy. In order to do so, he does not shy away from returning to Soviet economic practices. Even for Russian businesses, it is getting...
Vlad Malisjevcki
Al enkele maanden klagen Belarussen over de aardappels in de winkels: ze zijn duur, van slechte kwaliteit of zelfs helemaal niet voorhanden. De autoriteiten proberen het probleem op te lossen door...
Alexei Uvarov
When historian Alexei Uvarov was invited to a forum organized by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), he expected a political rally with a radical position, detached from reality. To his own...
East Stratcom Task Force
Last year’s combination of a presidential election and an EU referendum in Moldova offered Russia an opportunity it could not afford to ignore. To undermine the EU enlargement process and weaken...
Tatyana Rybakova
The Kremlin seems to be preparing the introduction of state-mandated prices on certain food items. For The Moscow Times, Tatyana Rybakova looks ahead at the possible consequences of such...
Taras Kuzio
Donald Trump is positive about the prospect of achieving peace in Ukraine soon, but the U.S. president consistently ignores Putin's demand to eliminate the 'root causes' of the war. For this reason,...
Tatiana Lanshina
Following a warm and largely snowless winter, multiple regions in Russia are already reporting dozens to hundreds of wildfires. Meanwhile, firefighting services are facing...
Vladimir Fesenko
Sinds de Verenigde Staten en Oekraïne elkaar 11 maart in de Saoedische stad Jeddah troffen, wordt er door Russische, Oekraïense en Amerikaanse experts onderhandeld over een staakt-het-vuren. De...
Maaz Bilalov
Russia’s Republic of Ingushetia has the highest unemployment rate in the country, with more than a quarter of the population being out of work. For years, no meaningful steps have been taken to...
Bereg
On March 12, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that it had regained control over Sudzha after Ukrainian forces seized the city in August 2024. A day earlier, the Ukrainian military had reported...
Vakhtang Partsvania
Discussions about a possible deal to end military actions in Ukraine have sparked speculation about the return of Western businesses to Russia. According to...
Andrei Zavadski
In Russia, the first decade after the fall of the Soviet Union was marked among other things by great turbulence, freedom, and economic strife. Since then, Putin's regime has sought to contain and...