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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...
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...