Moscow Risks Radicalizing Muslims In Crimea By Its Harsh Actions
Staunton, November 18 – Islam in Crimea traces its history back to the time of the Prophet and for most of that time, its followers have been moderate, even progressive in their views. That was the...
View ArticleKremlin Divided Only On When to Begin Full-Scale War With Ukraine, Sheremet Says
Staunton, November 19 – There are “no influential forces in the Kremlin now” calling for peace in Ukraine or with Russia’s other neighbors, independent Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet says. There...
View ArticlePutin May ‘Freeze’ Ukrainian Conflict But ‘Save Face’ By Attacking In the...
Staunton, November 19 – Faced with a united front in the West, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Putin may seek “to freeze the Ukrainian conflict and then to save face as a patriot of ‘the Russian world’ decide...
View ArticlePutin Proposing Molotov-Ribbentrop-Style Grand Bargain To West, Illarionov Says
Staunton, November 13 – Vladimir Putin is proposing the kind of grand bargain to Barack Obama that Hitler proposed to Neville Chamberlain and then to Joseph Stalin, in which the West would accept...
View ArticleOccupation Officials In Full Denial About Human Rights Watch Report On Abuses...
Staunton, November 20 – Human Rights Watch has released an eight-page report on “Rights in Retreat” in Crimea since the Anschluss, and the occupation authorities have gone into full-denial mode in...
View ArticleNovaya Gazeta: ‘It is Seen as Correct to Initiate Annexation of Eastern...
On February 21, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, gave an interview to Ekho Moskvy in which he described how his newspaper had obtained a sensational document that indicated the...
View ArticleFreed POW from Battle of Krasny Partizan Tells His Story
On March 6, the Ukrainian news site 24tv.ua published an interview of Sergei Stepanov, a recently-released Ukrainian POW, with journalist Yevgeniya Mazur. The account was also published by the Krivoy...
View ArticleRussian Occupiers To Close All But One Crimean Tatar Media Outlet As Of Tonight
Staunton, March 31 — “At the stroke of midnight” today, Denis Krivosheyev, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Europe and Central Asia, says, “all but one Crimean Tatar language media outlets,...
View ArticleRussian Interior Ministry Forces Prepare To Counter Maidans Across Russia And...
Staunton, April 9 — Russian internal troops are currently conducting exercises in six of the countries federal districts — the North-West, Central, Volga, North Caucasus, South, and Crimean — to...
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Life Among the Thugs: A Russian Businessman Volunteers in the Donbass
Last week we reported how volunteer Russian fighters from the Ural Mountains region went to fight in the Donbass alongside the Russian-backed militants in the Prizrak Brigade there, but came back...
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