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‘Putin’s aggression in Ukraine: 35,000 killed and wounded’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘For Putin’s Visit, Perm Becomes Ultimate Potemkin Village’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Kim Jong Un guarded by former KGB officers’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russians increasingly looking beyond Putin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
“Russia now has more prostitutes than doctors, farmers and firemen combined” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Putin now a sex symbol only for pensioners’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
More than 20 Russian regions now at third world levels economically
According to official statistics, approximately every fourth subject of the Russian Federation has a GDP per capita that…
Russia now has 15 to 20 enormous and horrifying ‘national disaster zones,’ statistics show
Statistics issued by Rosstat and the United Nations show that Russia now consists of 15 to 20 “national…
‘Is Putin a CIA agent or only the richest man on Earth?’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Gontmakher: ‘Putin’s system could fall apart in a single day,’ like the tsarist one a century ago
A century ago, Nicholas II looked all powerful and yet he was overthrown and his country disintegrated, Yevgeny…
Russia achieving ever more anti-records under Putin
“There are achievements which it would be better not to have,” opposition Russian politician Gennady Gudkov says, and…
‘Syrian war has cost Russia $2.2 billion already’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia has as many as 5 million homeless, not the 64,000 Rosstat reports
Sergey Mironov, head of the Just Russia Party, says there may be as many as five million homeless…
Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change
Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower…
Kremlin telling Russians to face falling living standards for years to come, Shelin says
“For the first time in the 21st century, the [Russian] regime is seeking to accustom its citizens to…
Russian regions in deep trouble: in most, only one household in five has money for more than food
Despite Putin’s upbeat comments, Russians living in the regions are even in the most successful case balance at…
Even direct costs of Putin’s aggression unsustainable, Pashkov says
The indirect costs of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea as well as his military…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin regime likely to end by only one of five scenarios, Eidman says
Many analysts in Russia and the West are now openly talking about how the regime of Vladimir Putin…
“Putin said to orchestrate Trump’s impeachment” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…