USSR
Moscow attempts to reinterpret the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
August 20, 2009By Pavel Felgenhauer Russian Manipulation of History: "the Art of Interpretation" To mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact by Russia (USSR) and Nazi Germany on August 23, 1939, the Foreign Intelligence...
New Georgian War Could Destroy Russia
August 12, 2009By Paul Goble A new war with Georgia, something Russian officials and commentators are increasingly talking about, could have the same impact on the Russian Federation that the invasion of Afghanistan had on the USSR, according to Yuliya Latynina,...
Latvia: Aug 23 - Date For Remembering Stalinist, Nazi Victims
July 16, 2009The Latvian parliament after a heated debate during the extraordinary meeting on Thursday passed in the final reading the bill about declaring August 23 the date for commemorating victims of Stalinist and Nazi regimes. The responsible parliamentary committee...
Central Asia’s Uyghur Problems Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
July 09, 2009By Paul Goble The violence in Xinjiang has highlighted the plight of the Uyghurs living under often brutal Chinese rule and called attention to the broader Uyghur problem across Central Asia, where many Uyghurs live and whose regimes must now find...
Ukrainian Analyst: Putin-Medvedev Regime ‘Proto-Fascist’
July 08, 2009By Paul Goble Despite the hopes of many in the West for a more progressive approach from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Moscow “tandem” of Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin represents a form of “proto-fascism,&rdquo...
Moscow’s Miscalculation on Falsification of History
July 06, 2009By Paul Goble A decision by an OSCE Parliamentary Assembly committee to declare August 23 an international day of memory of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism underscores just how much Moscow miscalculated with its campaign against “historical...
Crimean Tatars expose Russian sensitivity to its Soviet past
June 24, 2009By Taras Kuzio President Viktor Yushchenko has strongly condemned the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars on many occasions and ordered the Security Service (SBU) to open a special investigative unit examining crimes against humanity committed by the...
Why More Russian Archives are Likely to Close
June 01, 2009By Paul Goble A quirk in Russian law means that an official President Dmitry Medvedev has charged with combating historical falsifications has a decisive voice in determining whether the archives of the CPSU are open or not – an arrangement...
The Occidental Experts say a USSR reunion is possible
January 23, 2007Moldova.ORG -- The occidental experts suppose that USSR will be reunified in the coming future. That is the conclusion of the “Novaia Vremea” Russian newspaper which writes about the World Economic Forum experts’ report issued at the...
