Putin Regime Now in Trouble for Seven Reasons, Solovey Says 2016-07-13 02:15:07 Staunton, VA, July 10, 2016 – MGIMO Professor Valery Solovey says that the Putin system if not Vladimir Putin personally is in trouble for seven reasons, most of which are of its own creation but few of which it has a chance of escaping at […]
At a time of economic stringency, Putin has purchased a new limousine whose price equals the average annual incomes of 22,500 Russians who often don’t have enough money for food and clothing.
Irina Birna says Russia’s problems today are a reflection of a much older problem: Russia was and remains “a prison-house of nations.”
Russian officials now understand that Soviet-style Islam is every bit as much a threat to the Russian state as is Islamist extremism.
A new Channel One series, “Salam Maskva,” filmed three years ago but released only now provides a bleak but brutally honest picture of Moscow and of what “friendship of the peoples” looks like in Russia today.
A Moscow analyst suggests that Vladimir Putin is now more repressive than Leonid Brezhnev ever was.
The draft Doctrine on Information Security posted this week on the website of the Russian Security Council contains provisions which threaten not only the citizens of Russia but its neighbors and the West.
Putin’s social compact with the middle class is in danger of rupture because the Kremlin is now attacking the middle class, the ten to fifteen million people who have been able to achieve something.
The literature on the GULAG is enormous, but that about another group of Stalin’s victims, the “special settlers,” is far smaller, even though several million people were deported.
The approval by the Duma of the so-called Yarova-Ozerov package of legislation will among other things drive many followers even of Russia’s “traditional” religions into the underground.
