Ukrainian troops seen during drills in Kiev, Jan. 22, 2022. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA) The escalation of the conflict, which coincides with the anniversary of January 27, prompts some to seek lessons in the tragic history of their families. (JTA) — The military clash between Russia and Ukraine escalatesRead More →
JTA — The military clash between Russia and Ukraine escalates as Jews in both countries prepare to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, the day Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz in 1945 . The coincidence is an annual reminder of the complicated heritage shared by Russia and many countriesRead More →
(JTA) – The Military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine intensifies as Jews in both countries prepare to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, the day Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz in 1945. The coincidence is an annual reminder of the complicated legacy shared by Russia and many countries inRead More →
A flurry of diplomacy continued, along with a build-up of the Russian military near Ukraine’s borders, amid grim signs that Moscow’s talks with the West over its demands for sweeping concessions that would set back post-Cold War developments in Europe may soon be superseded by the use of Oblige. Meanwhile,Read More →
In the event of war, Russia will be able to call 2.5 times more reservists than the United States. But does it matter in the wars of the future? Western experts quite often make misleading comparisons between the military potential of Russia and the United States. This is well illustratedRead More →
A word of warning to anyone visiting Reykjavik: do not walk around the Icelandic capital in the company of artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Most people stop by the local luminary Kjartansson, who is unfailingly kind to all passers-by. Just over 360,000 people live on the tight-knit Nordic Island and such encountersRead More →
To get Oliver Bullough’s Weekly Oligarchy delivered straight to your inbox register here EXTREME RUSSIANS An interesting phenomenon in recent years has been the growth of expert billionaire observers – consulting firms that scrutinize the Ultra-High-Net-Worth population, much like naturalists observing wildebeest migration. They haven’t yet gotten to the pointRead More →
VLADIVOSTOK, September 1. / TASS /. The population of Russia, by some estimates, could now reach 500 million people, without the country’s two disintegrations in the 20th century, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with students from the Russian Children’s Center “Ocean” . Putin pointed out that in theRead More →
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a social uprising that unfolded in two phases, the first in February and the other in October. The day after the Revolution was the bloody Russian Civil War with an estimated death toll of between 5 and 12 million people. The working class andRead More →
World War I saw empires collapse, and among these was the Russian empire of Tsar Nicholas II. When Nicholas declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1914, he was the absolute ruler of a kingdom of nearly 150 million people stretching from central Europe to the Pacific and theRead More →
A Ukrainian soldier was fatally injured on March 12 by a Russian sniper near the frontline town of Mariinka, 30 kilometers west of Kremlin-occupied Donetsk. A day later, another Ukrainian serviceman was wounded by enemy fire. On March 12, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, saidRead More →
MOSCOW, January 24. / TASS /. The Russian Federal State Statistics Service released preliminary data on the population of Russia in 2018. As of January 1, 2019, Russia‘s population reached 146.794 million people, which shows a decrease of 86,000 people per year. compared to last year. In the past 10Read More →
President Vladimir Putin openly admits that economic sanctions “seriously harm Russia”. Imposed largely in response to the Kremlin’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Western sanctions have since become a mainstay of Russian foreign policy, perhaps even motivating the Kremlin’s interference in it. 2016 US presidential election on behalf ofRead More →