According to the Moscow Academy of Labor and Social Relations, “the exodus of [Central Asian and Caucasus] migrants from Russia as the result of the decline of the ruble has freed up jobs which Russians have begun to occupy,
US-based Russian commentator Kseniya Kirillova says that Kremlin propagandists are currently exploiting five vulnerabilities to spread their message among Americans with remarkable success.
Some Ukrainians were disappointed that NATO’s Warsaw Summit did not move further toward integrating Ukraine and Georgia into the Western alliance, but they should take heart from signs NATO has “come out of its coma.”
During the Cold War, officials in many Western capitals often remarked that “we send Moscow diplomats and the Russians treat them like spies, while Moscow sends us spies and we treat them like diplomats.”
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.
