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By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL What is undesirable is usually in the eye of the beholder. Consider the case of the Sova Center. The Sova Center is a...

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL So don't look now, but Russia may be about to get yet another law that will allow Vladimir Putin's regime...

By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia When the USSR existed, calling someone “anti-Soviet” was one of the most damning labels, even if some wore that...

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL It happens every August, almost without fail. As the summer winds down, you can count on the annual controversy about the...

By Edward Lucas, for CEPA The Holodomor happened almost a century ago. It's legacy still shapes contemporary conflict. Was the Holodomor a genocide? No, says modern...

By Donald N. Jensen, for CEPA Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Russian Security Council, warns that the use of foreign data technology by state structures...

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL They're arguing about milk. They're quarreling about customs. And they're squabbling about ports. For two countries that are supposed to be...

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL So it appears there will be a degree of transparency in next month's massive Zapad 2017 war games after all. Scores...

By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL He's a bare-knuckled street brawler. He's a firebrand leftist. And he's an unapologetic Stalinist who wants to restore the Soviet...

The Russian authorities have long promoted the idea that whatever is is forever as “an effective means of convincing people that the powers that...