Monday, September 22, 2025

Russian Justice Ministry bans 19th century book about persecution of Jews in medieval Europe

By Meduza Russia’s Justice Ministry has banned a 19th century book by German Orthodox rabbi Marcus Lehmann about the forced conversion of Jews to Christianity...

Moscow leverages Qatar crisis disinfo to bolster Nord Stream 2

By Wojciech Jakóbik, for CEPA Russian media uses the Qatar crisis to undermine Eastern European energy diversification and defend Gazprom’s controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline...

Baltic Forest Brothers did in 1940s what Russians did in 1991 – they fought...

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia The Kremlin-orchestrated attack on the Forest Brothers in the Baltic countries in the 1940s and on a NATO film...

Kremlin TV: Singing from the same hymn sheet

By East Stratcom “The West is the cause of all problems in the world, whereas Russia is invariably the only source of positive hope”. This...

Jim Kovpak: Talking to a Brick Wall

By Jim Kovpak, Russia Without BS Since Trump’s election, Russian state TV has had a bizarre relationship with the man. Still full of hatred for...

Putinist Fascism Not an Ideology but Rather a Set of Criminal ‘Understandings,’ Yakovenko Says

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia Vladimir Putin’s fascism, the first “post-modern” fascism, is able to include under its banner so many radically different people...

Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine

By East Stratcom Where were you on 17 July, 2014? On this day a Malaysian Airlines flight, which had taken off from Amsterdam bound for...

StopFakeNews #140 with Marko Suprun

The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. This week we debunk claims that Ukraine is violating the Minsk agreements; a Yugoslav scenario...

MH17 – The Open Source Investigation, Three Years Later

By Bellingcat Investigation Team. for Bellingcat The full report can be downloaded here  Today, we are releasing a report summarizing all major open source evidence surrounding...

Lavrov, Donbass and the Duties of Translation

By Michele A. Berdy, for The Moscow Times Ввязаться: to meddle, get involved , get entangled, take on A couple of weeks ago Foreign Minister Sergei...