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Officials at the Russian Flag Day festival in Sakha arrived early and ate up all the beautifully-decorated cakes intended for orphans and poor children.

Who would have believed that the true restorers of everything bad in the Soviet political and economic system would come to power not from below, from some kind of ‘left-wing’ party or movement but from behind the scenes of the ‘democratic’ powers-that-be-themselves?

Hitler-Stalin Pact Still Casts a Shadow Over Europe 77 Years On 2016-08-25 04:25:54 Staunton, VA, August 23, 2016 – Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence, an agreement known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and one that continues to divide Russia from the rest of Europe […]

A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 45 2016-08-20 02:03:52 Staunton, VA, August 19, 2016 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to […]

Elena Omelchenko of the Center for Youth Research at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg says that it is “a myth” that young Russians are becoming more patriotic at least in the militaristic sense the Kremlin seeks to promote.

Moscow Wants a Bosnia-Style Outcome for Ukraine, Oktisyuk Says 2016-08-13 15:19:43 Staunton, VA, August 12, 2016 – Despite its declarations about taking revenge against Kyiv for supposedly sending “diversionists” into Crimea, Moscow is unlikely to launch a major war but instead hopes to use the threat of such a conflict to force Ukraine to agree to […]

Since January 2014, 18 countries have provided US $164.1 million worth of non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, with more than 80 percent of that coming from just two countries, the United States which has given US $117.6 million worth of supplies and Canada which has given $23.6 million.

Many have focused on the problems of integrating people from the Caucasus into Russian life, Emil Pain says; but they should be focusing on the more significant problem of competition between ethnic Russians who remain internally divided and non-Russians who in order to survive have become far more united and capable of success

Former Ukrainian foreign minister Vladimir Ogryzko says Kyiv should refuse to consent to the new Russian envoy because “the presence or absence of an ambassador of Russia in Ukraine will change nothing” and the Kremlin’s candidate is both “strange” and unacceptable.

In St. Petersburg, activists have forced a museum to agree to clothe a copy of Michaelangelo’s David lest it offend the sensibilities of children.