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As a result of its full-scale re-invasion of Ukraine launched on February 24, Russia presently occupies most of Kherson Oblast, a southern region with a million inhabitants that borders on Crimea. In fact, Russian troops captured Kherson with a strike from the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed back in 2014. Now, some observers predict that Kherson will soon undergo …

Vadim Shtepa is the editor-in-chief of Region.Expert (www.region.expert), the only independent media outlet on Russian regionalism and federalism. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (1992) and Moscow School of Political Studies (2012). He is also an alumnus of the Research Course on American Federalism (University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA, 2013). Mr. Shtepa is the …

Kremlin’s Geopolitical Fears Divide Finno-Ugric Peoples Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 100 June 23, 2021 06:13 PM Age: 11 hours Participants of this years VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples. (Source: VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, Facebook) The eighth meeting of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples took place in Tartu, Estonia, on June 16–18. These congresses, which are held in a different city every four years, are also political summits, usu...

Russia is a failed federation Vadim Shtepa © Provided by Washington Examiner Russia’s official name is "the Russian Federation." But today, this country is not really a federation at all. Under President Vladimir Putin, with his ideology of the "vertical of power," it has become a unitary, even hypercentralized state. Some commentators have gone so far as to call Russia a failed state. It is narrower but equally accurate to say that it is a failed federation. The history of ...