Window on Eurasia

The events of the last few days in Kazakhstan, both in the capital and in the northwest region, have shaken Russian confidence about their assumptions regarding that country.

US Sending the Wrong Signals to Peoples of Russia by Not Sending Them at All 2016-06-09 18:39:34 Staunton, VA, June 7, 2016 – At a time when Vladimir Putin is suppressing media freedom across his country and Russianizing the media space in the non-Russian portions of his country, the United States has taken two decisions about international […]

Valentina Matvienko on June 3 gave the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin plans to expand its efforts to mobilize Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet republics and Baltic states.

Increasingly, there is a rise in “hybrid” repression: the use of anonymous people goaded by the Russian regime and its allies to attack Putin critics using force.

A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 34 2016-06-03 18:37:17 Staunton, VA, June 3, 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 […]

Belarusians are now being trained in a camp in Russia that is headed by an openly fascist Russian nationalist, an arrangement that Moscow might exploit against Minsk.

Some view Vladimir Putin as all-powerful while others view him as increasingly weak, says Karina Orlova.

President Vladimir Putin says he won’t sell or give back the Kuriles to the Japanese, but he is ready to buy other countries.

President Vladimir Putin is pursuing rearmament and confrontation with the West even during his current charm offensive.

Russian officials are dramatically underestimating the threat of Islamist groups now pose to the country, according to Galina Khizriyeva.