Category: 8. Opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg met with Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on June 21. The contested Belarusian leader marked the visit by releasing fourteen prisoners, mostly…

Being tired of empty talks with President Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he had secured a deal with NATO to purchase weapons destined for Ukraine. Trump signaled a potential end to…

The death of the Transport Minister and former governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit split Russia’s already fractured opposition.

Supporters of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) were the first to…

After 25 years of work, Russia’s only independent election monitoring organization, Golos, is sadly no more. This week, Golos’ remaining leadership made the decision to close the organization…

As I descended the steps of the plane that had landed in the southern resort town of Sochi, I saw an FSB officer standing in front of me. His face was covered with a balaclava and there was an…

Russian Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit was found dead near a parking lot in Moscow’s Odintsovo district, where he lived, on July 7. He apparently shot himself — or, at least, this is the…

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State-led attacks on Russia’s LGBTQ+ community intensified dramatically following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Nevertheless, the phrase “Orthodox Sharia” that sometimes…

Having spent much of the last 35 years in conflict with one another, the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan now have a shared target of hostility: the Kremlin.

Recent days have seen the shaky…