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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...
Konstantin Skorkin
An end to the fighting in Ukraine would pave the way for presidential elections that President Volodymyr Zelensky is likely - but not guaranteed - to win. In a commentary originally published...
Anna Zlatkovskaja
Aleksandr Loekasjenko heeft 86,82% van de stemmen behaald in de Belarussische verkiezingen - bepaald geen verrassing. Journalist Anna Zlatkovskaja schrijft voor nieuwssite Zerkalo over de...
Simon Sebag Montefiore
On New Year's Eve 1999, the Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin as his successor. 'Take care of Russia', Yeltsin said to the obscure young bureaucrat. A quarter of a century...
Francis Farrell
As 2025 approaches and Trump's inauguration draws nearer, there is increasing talk of negotiations and a (temporary) end to Russia's war against Ukraine. In an article originally published...
Steve Gutterman
With the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, Russia has suddenly lost an important ally in the Middle East. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Steve Gutterman examines Russia's...
Razbor
Last week, a coalition of rebels led by a group called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ended a years-long stalemate in Syria’s civil war, capturing the city of Aleppo as well as other towns and...
Roman Kravets en Roman Romanjoek
De Derde Wereldoorlog is al gaande, zegt Valeri Zaloezjny in een nieuw interview met Roman Kravets en Roman Romanjoek van Oekraïnskaja Pravda. Rusland zet in op de totale uitputting van...
Anton Barbashin
As soon as president Biden authorised Ukraine to use ATACMS on Russian territory, the country purposefully crossed a new 'red line' of Putin by attacking military facilities in the Bryansk and Kursk...
Evgeni Sensjin
Tijdens zijn bezoek aan Moskou van begin oktober ontving Aleksandr Loekasjenko van Vladimir Poetin de hoogste Russische onderscheiding en een toezegging voor een lening van anderhalf miljard dollar....
Viktoria Beha and Khrystyna Kotsira
27-year-old journalist Viktoria Roshchyna died in Russian captivity shortly before she was going to be exchanged in a prisoner swap. Russian authorities claim that this happened during her...
Sofia Johanson
While the U.S. seals the cracks in the windows to keep out Russian state-funded broadcasting, the door remains wide open across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Its growing following...
Asya Panasevich
Maria Kalesnikava’s relatives have not received any letters from her for more than a year and a half. The Belarussian political prisoner spent almost all this time in a cell with no hot water, but...
Darya Bassel
Last week, the film ‘Russians at War’ premiered at the 81st Venice film festival in the category of ‘Out of Competition’. It portrays young Russian soldiers, often struggling to understand what they...
Andrej Pertsev
In een twintigtal regio’s en steden zijn in het weekeinde van 6 tot 8 september nieuwe gouverneurs, burgemeesters of gemeenteraden gekozen. De Kremlinkandidaten wonnen overal. Ook het presidentiële...
Vladislav Inozemtsev
The Ukrainian incursions in the Russian Kursk and Belgorod districts have lasted for over a month already. The size of Russia's lost territory may look rather small, but the impact on the state...
Sibir.Realii
Russische leerlingen vieren deze week de opening van het nieuwe schooljaar. Hen wacht een ingrijpend aangepast programma: met de Verdediging van het vaderland en Gezinsstudies als verplichte kost en...
Artjom Sjraibman
Het voor de tweede keer op rij vrijkomen van politieke gevangenen in Belarus, en mogelijke voorbereidingen voor een derde bevrijdingsronde, roept onwillekeurig de vraag op welke motieven hierbij een...
Verstka
On August 9, Russian authorities declared a federal-level emergency in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces had already been advancing for four days. Anywhere from several dozen to...
Xavier Kruth
Twee jaar gevangenisstraf kregen muzikanten Nadia en Vova Kalach uit Belarus voor hun optreden. Tijdens een demonstratie tegen de vervalste presidentsverkiezingen van 2020 speelden ze op hun...
Mike Eckel
Determined to develop the 'RuNet' into a parallel online universe, Russian authorities have made YouTube their latest target. Over the past weeks, the popular video platform has been intentionally...
Sergei Lebedev
No one can deny Navalny’s personal bravery. However, there were things that even he did not dare do. With most of his exposés in the area of corruption, he left the most terrifying aspect...