Thursday, July 24, 2025

Despite ‘Generous State Funding,’ Patriotic Productions in Putin’s Russia having ‘Little Commercial Success,” Barabash Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 21 – “Generous state funding” for films, plays and books that promote Putin and his policies often r...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Russian Majority will Support War in Ukraine as Long as They Don’t have to Fight, Shelin Says, and There is a Minority Quite Willing to Do So

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 21 – A recent VTsIOM poll shows that a new “Russian contract” between Putin and the population has e...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Moscow Warns It will Take ‘Appropriate’ Measures if Armed Conflict Breaks Out in Greenland – and May Already be Compromising Flight Operations Radar in Svalbard

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 20 – Vladimir Barbin, Moscow’s ambassador in Copenhagen who attracted attention with his talk about ...

Russian Community Complains Chelyabinsk Officials Trying to Identify which of Their Employees are Members of that Radical Nationalist Group

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 20 – Leaders of the radical Russian nationalist group, the Russian Community, have formally complain...

Urals Writer Challenges Putin’s Claim that All Russian Speakers Must be in One State

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 20 – Vladimir Putin ever more often insists that Russian speakers must be in a single state, but a R...

At Start of His Expanded War in Ukraine, Putin Ended Factory Inspections and Russians are Getting Sick

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 20 – When he launched his expanded invasion of Ukraine, Putin ended the inspections that had been ca...

Like Stalin’s Soviet Union, Putin’s Russia is an Empire but Not an Ethnic One, Savvin Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, July 18 – The neo-Soviet system Putin has put in place, like its Soviet predecessor, is an empire but not...