Staunton, October 3 – Since the Anschluss, 18 Crimean Tatars have “disappeared,” three of them in the last week alone, Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Cemilev told a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe yesterday, a reflection of increasing oppression and growing illegality by the Russian occupiers. Two youths, Isyam Dzhepparov and […]
Staunton, October 3 – Despite the Russian invasion, approximately half of all residents of Ukraine continue to have a generally positive view of Russia and Russians, but their attitudes vary among regions with those in the predominantly ethnic Ukrainian west having more negative attitudes and those in the more heavily ethnic Russian east more positive […]
Staunton, October 3 – Deputies of the Kabardino-Balkarian parliament have appealed to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to include the Ubykhs, a subgroup of the Circassian nation, on the official list of numerically small indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation and thus take the first step to the revival of a language which has been […]
Staunton, October 3 – Members of the Russian elite are transfixed by the protest movement in Hong Kong because it undermines their widespread belief that “economic growth is possible under conditions of political authoritarianism” and that consequently, Russia does not “need any political changes,” according to Aleksey Melnikov. Such attitudes, the Russian commentator says, are […]
Staunton, October 3 – Few non-governmental organizations in the Russian Federation have done more to protect the interests of ordinary Russians against the irresponsible power of the Russian state than the Mother’s Right Foundation, which over the 20 years of its existence has helped 7,000 soldiers and their relatives from mistreatment each year. Over the […]
Staunton, October 3 – H.G. Wells like many Westerners misunderstood Lenin: He and they thought he was either a dreamer or an idiot but remained convinced that he wanted to build a new future for Russia. And in a similar way, many Westerners today are misunderstanding Putin and think he is all about building a […]
Staunton, October 3 – The conviction of Fauziya Bayramova, president of the Volga Tatar Milli Mejlis and a longtime activist for the Tatar nation, for her support of the Crimean Tatars as well as her suspended one-year sentence is attracting widespread attention in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine. Yesterday, a city court in Naberezhny […]
Staunton, October 3 – Despite the current nostalgia for Soviet times and the difficulties of the 1990s, Russians still view traveling abroad and having access to a free flow of information as inalienable rights, the editors of Nezavisimaya Gazeta say. But at the same time, they are “prepared for the limitation” of these rights by […]
Staunton, October 3 – There are now more than 1200 religious facilities in the Russian penal system, and the Russian government today announced plans for legislation that would regularize their presence rather than allow the continuation of the current situation in which some officials welcome such facilities while others are opposed. Bishop Irinarkh of Krasnogorsk, […]
Staunton, October 2 – Since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea, some 300,000 people have moved from other regions of Ukraine into the peninsula, an influx that experts say will make “a humanitarian catastrophe inevitable” unless extraordinary measures are taken by the Russian regime. But regardless of whether they take action or not, this influx is changing […]
