A Double Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 23 2016-03-08 02:14:25 Staunton, VA, February 19, 2016 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way […]
Staunton, December 18 – The Soviet security agencies from Lenin on were infected by an often vicious Russian nationalism which led their officers to attack non-Russians far more frequently than Russians, according to a new study based on archival sources by Aleksey Teplyakov, a Novosibirsk historian. Many researchers Russian and foreign have considered the national […]
Staunton, October 7 – Russia’s close connection with the Mongols has never been doubted either as victim of the Mongol Yoke or as the continuer of many the approaches first adopted by Chingiz Khan. But now a Duma deputy from Buryatia has added a new wrinkle by suggesting very publicly that even the name of […]
