Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population has faced occupation, oppression and even mass deportation for generations. A decade after Moscow’s forces seized the peninsula in 2014, the regime of Vladimir Putin has failed to break Tatars speaking out against its rule and…
![“Solo protest” in Moscow Jan. 6, says, “Freedom for mobilized. Bring back husbands, fathers, sons!” The Way Home group, families of Russian conscripts, denounced Putin’s May 9 rally, “Did our ancestors truly sacrifice their lives so we would be drawn into this [Ukraine] war?”](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Moscow-Protest-8821-300x218.jpg)
In an escalation of Vladimir Putin’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine, Moscow’s tanks attacked across Ukraine’s northeastern border May 10 for the first time since the early weeks of its invasion in 2022. Ukrainian reserves are engaged in…
When Moscow’s military invaded Ukraine in February 2022, assured by President Vladimir Putin of an easy victory, they were rapidly repelled from Kyiv, the capital, as working people put up fierce resistance. But 60 miles to the north Russian troops…
Some 20,000 people, mainly young, protested in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, April 18, chanting, “No to the Russian law!” The former Soviet republic bordering Russia on the Black Sea has been rocked for days by demonstrations opposing the ruling Georgian Dream…
Moscow is stepping up its murderous assault on Ukrainian workers’ lives and on the mines and factories of the country’s eastern Donetsk region, as well as on crucial infrastructure across the country. Yet the Ukrainian people’s courageous determination to defend…
President Joseph Biden hosted a first-ever joint meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., at the White House, April 11. The three government heads announced increased military and economic cooperation. To defend U.S. ruling-class…
The two-decades-long domination of Turkish politics by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shaken March 31 when his Islamist-based Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered an unexpected and unprecedented defeat in nationwide municipal elections. For the first time the secular opposition…
In the wake of the March 22 deadly Moscow terror attack by Islamic State Khorasan, a reactionary Islamist outfit, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is targeting Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. The Kremlin is conducting police raids across the country…
Four terrorist attackers, acting for an Islamic State group offshoot, sprayed gunfire on concertgoers and lit a massive blaze that brought down the roof in a Moscow entertainment complex hosting a rock concert March 22. In the assault, the deadliest…
China’s rulers have extended their repressive grip over Hong Kong after the territories’ Legislative Council adopted a stringent new national security bill, Article 23, March 19. A previous attempt to pass the bill was scrapped after half a million people…
