Buckwheat prices in Russian shops are soaring without any apparent reason. Russians are stocking up on this nutritious and usually cheap foodstuff, anticipating the worst is yet to come.
A behind-the-scenes look at power struggles inside the Kremlin reveals potential scenarios for the future. And a possible new president.
Security think-tanks and expert communities in the Western world are perpetuating the dangerous myth that Muslim radicalisation is rife in Central Asia.
Central Asian security services have been abducting their countries’ citizens from Russia to stand trial on trumped-up charges. And the Russian police have been helping them.
Until Black Tuesday on 16 December 2014, 15 years after Vladimir Putin first took power, there were no grounds to suggest he might resign or call snap elections. Now there are. На русском языке
Americans can no longer adopt Russian children, so now the government is encouraging more Russians to adopt. But without much success.
Chechen women have to be very careful about what they wear because of Ramzan Kadyrov’s ‘virtue campaign.’
Most talk about censorship on Russian television misses the point. When it comes to reporting, loyalty takes precedence.
Orthodox ideology is being rushed into the Russian school curriculum – in the interests of nationalism.
Russians pride themselves on their capacity for state-building, but their idea of the state is not one that the West would recognise, or was hoping for…
The current crisis unfolding in Ukraine has brought the issue of nuclear weapons back into sharp focus.
President Putin’s special envoy to the Urals, recently praised the region’s farmers for their heroic efforts to save the harvest. But it won’t save them.
