Opinions

The midgets who rule, with a tiny iron fist, over the dumpster fire known as Russia learned a lesson from their Soviet predecessors. That lesson: a lie repeated often enough is accepted as truth.

Triumphs and tragedies tend to unite societies, but which ones have that effect, the way they do so, and the limits to that process vary widely from one country to another and like an x-ray reveal the…

Although many European countries had a rough ride in 2014, no country in Europe can claim to have had a more challenging year than Ukraine.

It’s one of the greatest war crimes of modern times – and the truth still hasn’t been told. On July 17th 2014 at about 16:20 local time, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

This opinion was published by MASHA GESSEN in The New York Times on SEPTEMBER 16, 2012. Secretly I had felt that I had made Vladimir Putin up.

Manuel Ochsenreiter is not a household name either in the United States or in his native Germany. He’s the editor of “Zuerst!

Inside the bar near Union Station, the two men propped their elbows on a table and locked hands. They’d paired off, American versus Russian, congressman from California versus deputy mayor of St. Petersburg.

The Kremlin’s plans for the global expansion of state media have been greeted with suspicion, especially in the countries of the former USSR.

The film director’s attempts to curry favor with Vladimir Putin are craven, dishonest, and disrespectful to the Ukrainians who died fighting off Russia. Who needs Russia Today when you have Oliver Stone?

A staple of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda has been that Ukrainians want to wipe out the use of the Russian language and hence of the Russian people in their country and that as a consequence, Moscow in the name of the “Russian world” must intervene in order to prevent that from happening.