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Kseniya Kirillova

Kseniya Kirillova is a Russian journalist who focuses on analyzing Russian society, political processes in modern Russia and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. She writes for several media outlets and is an expert of the Center for Army, Conversion, and Disarmament Studies and the Free Russia Foundation.

Kseniya Kirillova

Kseniya Kirillova: Social tensions in Russia spill over into inter-ethnic conflicts

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian communists try to control popular discontent

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian propaganda focuses on Kazan school shooting tragedy

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian influence in Montenegro threatens for NATO

Kseniya Kirillova: Are new protests expected in the Russian regions?

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian authorities redouble pressure to preserve Crimeans’ loyalty

Kseniya Kirillova: Behind the rumors of Putin’s illness

Kseniya Kirillova: Ukraine’s geopolitical successes become Russian defeats

Kseniya Kirillova: Can Belarus and Karabakh inspire patriotic surge in Russia?

Kseniya Kirillova: Ukrainian reverberations of the Wagner arrests in Belarus

Kseniya Kirillova: Latent Russian dissatisfaction

Kseniya Kirillova: Moscow steps up passportization efforts

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian influence grows in Central Asia

Kseniya Kirillova: Russians still believe the propaganda

Kseniya Kirillova: Russia tries to capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic

Kseniya Kirillova: Russians now see Putin as a threat not a saviour

Kseniya Kirillova: Russia pushes to expand its influence over Ukraine

Kseniya Kirillova: Prospects of the Russian protest movement

Kseniya Kirillova: Protests in Moscow no longer just a game

Kseniya Kirillova: Fake info about ‘Ukrainian saboteurs’ in Crimea

Kseniya Kirillova: Why Russian activists cannot ignore the war in Ukraine

Kseniya Kirillova: The hard fate of foreign Russia-lovers

Kseniya Kirillova: Residents of Russian-occupied Donbas face forced resettlement, …

Kseniya Kirillova: Veteran Soviet KGB agent talks about Butina

Kseniya Kirillova: In Russia, propaganda calls for destruction of Ukraine

Kseniya Kirillova: If you are in danger

Kseniya Kirillova: Russian ideology for export

Kseniya Kirillova: The culling of Russia’s opposition journalists

Kseniya Kirillova: Propaganda, the opiate of the masses in Putin’s Russia

Kseniya Kirillova: Russia’s ‘ghost’ armies and the ‘heroes of the Russian spring’ in …

Kseniya Kirillova: Will Putin’s regime collapse as a result?

Kseniya Kirillova: ‘Visitors’ from Russia pushing out Donbas locals and taking over …

Kseniya Kirillova: The Kremlin’s Bulgarian game

Expert: Russia will keep up its pressure on Belarus

Kseniya Kirillova: Piontkovsky says Putin’s system is irreversibly collapsing

Kseniya Kirillova: Serfdom in new Russia

Kseniya Kirillova: Advice for Americans traveling to Russia

Kseniya Kirillova: Is Russia getting ready to launch a nuclear strike from Crimea?

Kseniya Kirillova: How much will Crimea cost Russians?

Kseniya Kirillova: Trump-Putin bromance is far from over

Kseniya Kirillova: Putin is behind the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, his colleague says

Kseniya Kirillova: In the footsteps of Schellenberg

Kseniya Kirillova: The adventures of Ukrainian separatists in Russia

Kseniya Kirillova: How Russians charged their own agent with espionage

Kseniya Kirillova: Experts say the Kremlin may have been behind the St. Petersburg …

Kseniya Kirillova: Belarusian dead end

Kseniya Kirillova: Moscow’s bloody list

Kseniya Kirillova: There is still a chance in age of Trump

Kseniya Kirillova: What to expect from Russia?

Kseniya Kirillova: Talking to Putin about Ukraine reinforces his mistaken view of world

Kseniya Kirillova: Kremlin fighting West, not global terrorism

Kseniya Kirillova: Why Americans fall for Kremlin propaganda

Kseniya Kirillova: Propaganda stereotypes paralyze Russia’s potential for change