The Daily Vertical: Federalize This! (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFERL
Russia's official name is now officially a fiction.
The Russian Federation has now completely ceased to be anything remotely resembling a federation.
When...
Two new signs Russians are ceasing to trust the Kremlin’s messages
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
In a lead article today, the editors of Nezavisimaya gazeta say that for the first time fewer than half...
Mixed Kremlin reaction to Bellingcat report on MH17 shootdown
By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA
The latest report by investigative search network Bellingcat on the 17 July 2014 shootdown of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17...
Unpacking the history of the Baltic “Forest Brothers”
By Edward Lucas, for CEPA
War is never two dimensional. Edward Lucas considers one chapter of anti-Soviet resistance.
Russia is fuming about a new NATO video...
Fake: Iconic Odessa Film Studio to Close
Russian Defense Ministry television station Zvezda announced this week that the Ukrainian government was closing down the iconic Odessa film studio. Zvezda claims that...
Jim Kovpak: The Competition
By Jim Kovpak, Russia Without BS
I’ve spent a lot of time making fun of Russian propaganda on this blog, but you don’t really get...
The Daily Vertical: Rebranding the Donbas (transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL
Whenever the Kremlin or its proxies dream up a new name for Ukraine, it's often a sure sign that trouble is...
Kremlin-promoted mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to stalinism, Orekh Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of their...
Russian news agency ‘RBC’ refuses to publish investigative report on a ‘secret torture prison’...
By Meduza
The news agency RBC refused to publish an investigative story by journalist Ilya Rozhdestvensky about a “secret prison” allegedly operated outside Moscow by...
Most requests to remove online content come from Russia, Google says
By The Moscow Times
Russia has come out on top of a ranking of government requests to have online content removed or blocked, according to...