History

Starting Mar. 1, 2025, Russian doctors will be required to share data with the police on patients with mental disorders who are deemed a “danger to others.” Human rights activists …

A year ago, Russia’s Supreme Court declared the “International LGBT movement” an “extremist organization.” Although such an organization does not exist and never has, the ruling effectively puts all LGBT …

Recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was popular among the Western ultra-right for his anti-Semitic views, Holocaust denial, and ruthless persecution of his country’s Muslim population. Infamous Ku Klux Klan …

A hundred years ago, on Dec. 1, 1924, Estonian communists attempted a coup d’état that enjoyed the direct backing of Soviet Russia — despite the Tartu Peace Treaty signed in …

A prominent Iranian theologian, Mustafa Karami, recently claimed that Israel’s success in eliminating Hamas and Hezbollah commanders can be attributed to an army of djinns that Israel has allegedly enlisted. …

The Freedom Letters publishing house has defied a demand from the Russian Prosecutor General’s office to cease distribution of “Not-So-Last Words” — a compilation of courtroom statements from 49 political …

The Republic of Georgia is following Russia’s lead, taking steps to pass a bill that would ban “LGBT propaganda.” Encouraged by the homophobic rhetoric of the authorities in Tbilisi, anti-LGBT activists …

The creation of puppet “people’s republics” with the goal of annexing them to Russia—like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the so-called “LDNR”—isn’t a new tactic from Putin. In his book “Playing …

The ongoing war in Gaza has become yet another episode in the never-ending sequence of battles for the Holy Land. This story goes so far back that many of the …

With a “peace summit” set to take place in Switzerland later this June, speculation is again rampant regarding the potential for ending Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine via some form …