A Yekaterinburg journalist who wrote about Urals fighters in the mercenary company Wagner has died after a fall from his fifth-floor apartment.
Russian Journalist Who Wrote About Wagner Mercenaries Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances
April 15, 2018
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A New and Most Dangerous Game in the Russian Federation – Border Changes from Below
February 6, 2015
Staunton, February 5 — Moscow has changed the borders of its constituent regions, districts and republics many times over the last century, and Vladimir Putin for the last decade has pushed for the amalgamation of smaller non-Russian areas with larger and predominantly ethnic Russian regions. But there is one thing that Moscow does not want […]
Moscow Renews Push Toward a Single Muslim ‘Patriarchate’
December 12, 2014
Staunton, December 9 – The Russian government has never been pleased by the fact that it must now deal with more than 80 Muslim spiritual directorates (MSDs) rather than a single centralized one. Meanwhile, some Muslim leaders – most prominently Talgat Tajuddin of Ufa – have sought to form a Moscow patriarchate-style central leadership to […]