USSR
Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus
April 27, 2010By Paul Goble New Russian Web Site Highlights Resistance to Soviets in Baltics, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus after World War II A new Russian website intended to ensure no one forgets what it calls “the victims of nationalist terror in...
Moldova: Mihai Ghimpu will not attend military parade in Moscow
April 24, 2010Moldovan interim president, Mihai Ghimpu, won’t attend the May 9th parade organized in Moscow. This information was confirmed by Ghimpu, for Jurnal TV. “I am not bonded anyhow to Moscow. Only the winners go there, what will the defeated ones...
Ukrainian Diaspora vs. Soviet Union: A story of the renewal of the Ukrainian Catholic church
April 21, 2010By Robert A. McConnell This year marked the 99th anniversary of International Women's Day, and numerous people and groups took the occasion to reflect on various milestones for women, such as suffrage, educational opportunities, and even the first...
BBC: Remembering Katyn, 70 years later
April 07, 2010The Polish prime minister will attend Wednesday's ceremony in Russia marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of Poles by Soviet forces. It is an unprecedented step, and one which could herald a new era in strained relations between Poland and...
Russian and Polish leaders to mark Katyn anniversary for the first time
April 06, 2010Seven decades ago, Soviet secret police executed thousands of Polish military officers in a forest in Western Russia. On April 7, Russian and Polish leaders will meet to officially commemorate the massacre's anniversary together for the first time. Russian...
Interview: Garry Kasparov talks about Putin's endgame
March 11, 2010Former world chess champion and current Kremlin gadfly Garry Kasparov sat down recently with RFE/RL Azerbaijani Service correspondent Ibragim Bayamduroglu to talk about the Russian political landscape. In a wide-ranging interview, Kasparov interprets...
Russia now caught in ‘trap of partial freedom’
March 10, 2010By Paul Goble “The level of political unfreedom in contemporary Russia is incomparably less than in the USSR,” a Moscow analyst says, but “the partial freedom” its authoritarian government does allow represents “a trap...
Memorial calls on Medvedev to denounce Katyn as crime against humanity
March 06, 2010By Paul Goble On the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s decision to execute more than 21,000 Polish officers at Katyn and other places, the Memorial human rights group has urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to denounce that action as a crime against...
Soviet occupation in Moldova resulted in 300,000 deaths and deportations
March 03, 2010Veaceslav Stavila, a member of the Commission to Study and Assess the Totalitarian Communist Regime in Moldova (CSATCRM), presented new data today about the impact of the Soviet occupation of Moldova. Mr. Stavila noted that over 300,000 people were killed...
Russian analyst: International community not bound to support territorial integrity of states
February 24, 2010By Paul Goble Valery Tishkov, an influential Moscow specialist on ethnicity and politics, says in an interview posted online yesterday that every government must seek to defend its country’s territorial integrity because, in the wake of what...