Sunday, August 24, 2025

Moscow Closing Prison Camps But It is Planning to Open More Preliminary Detention Centers where Many are Held and Conditions are Often Worse

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 23 – Moscow has closed some of its prison camps over the last several years because so many the inma...

Declines in the Number of Births and Increases in Prices for Consumer Goods Driving Down Russians’ Purchases of Goods for Babies, ‘Kommersant’ Reports

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 – The Russian government may be able to stop publishing   much demographic data, but it will be h...

Russian Pupils to Spend Less Time Studying Foreign Languages and More Learning about Traditional Values, Ministry of Enlightenment Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 -- In order for pupils in the middle grades of Russian schools to devote more time to learning ab...

Another Revenant from the Soviet Past – Communal Apartments Return to Russian Cities

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 – Rising housing costs in Moscow and other major Russian cities have prompted an increasing numbe...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Officials in Three Districts of the Altai Resist Dispensing with Municipal Administrations as Moscow has Ordered and the Republic has Agreed

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 – Something unusual is happening in the Altai Republic. Although Moscow has ordered getting rid o...

As Many as 700,000 Ukrainians Formed Underground Units to Fight Soviet Occupation of Their Republic in the Decade after 1945

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 22 – Articles are now appearing in the Russian media on how as many as 700,000 Ukrainians joined und...

Russian Foreign Ministry Journal Article Says Baltic Region ‘Potential Theater of Military Operations’

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Paul Goble             Staunton, Aug. 21 – Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn ’, the journal of the Russian Foreign Ministry, features an article in it...