by Slava Tsukerman On March 21, 2025, a court in St. Petersburg sentenced 67-year-old journalist Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison for his interviews and anti-war publications in the social networks. Reports of this sentence were perceived by many, including myself, as a sensation. Not because journalists are never imprisoned in Russia, but, on […]
The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna
NEWLANC: A new documentary, The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna, reveals disturbing facts about the shocking death of a Black federal prosecutor in 2003 and asks provocative questions about actions by the Maryland Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Pennsylvania state police. Jonathan Luna was an ambitious federal prosecutor who had worked for the […]
Examples of Newest Russian Propaganda
By Slava Tsukerman and Nina Antonova These maps are the parts of publication Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, former President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, made in Telegram on July 2022. Medvedev wrote: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that he will restore the country to its 2013 borders, but Western analysts predict that there will […]
Is Putin Fighting for Ukrainian Territories?
By Slava Tsukerman Today, discussing the expected peace talks in Ukraine, the American media often presents the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as a conflict primarily over the territories. I’m familiar not only with American but also with the Russian-language media’s opinion on this issue, and for me the sharp difference between the Russian and the American understandings […]
Russian Public Opinion Today
By Slava Tsukerman This article starts with a video shot on August 9, 2024, in the Russian city of Magadan. It was shown on Russian TV and republished by many on the Internet. It is a military demonstration, where a commander orders: “For Belgorod and Donbas, for Crimea and Sevastopol, for Kursk and Kherson […]
“Denazification” Russian Way
By Slava Tsukerman According to the Russian state propaganda, among the main purposes of the Russian war with Ukraine are denazification and demilitarization of the country. Russian propaganda considers Ukrainians who think that they are different from Russians – having their own language, nationality and are deserving a state of their own – enemies and […]
The Unexpected Big Scandal In Russia
By Slava Tsukerman Some people were surprised by the fact that the funeral of Alexei Navalny, the most prominent leader of Putin’s opposition, was attended by thousands of Russians, despite the fact that participation in this action was very dangerous for the participants. It contradicted the belief that the protest movement is tremendously shrunk in […]
Just a Zip Code?
By Robert Field, Publisher The following article appeared in the Washington Post concerning the recent sale of the Scranton Times-Herald. “Could the local news crisis get any worse? Look at Scranton.” We had a similar LNP situation here in Lancaster but, thanks to the Steinman family that also had owned our newspaper for over a […]
New Survey Of Russians About The War In Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman On November 15, 2023, Russian independent website Current Time published a report on the latest poll by the independent research group Russian Field. The report was headlined: “Poll of Russians on War: For the first time, supporters of peace talks outnumber those in favor of continuing ‘special operations.’” In the months since […]
Why Russians Support the War with Ukraine
By Slava Tsukerman The Public Sociology Laboratory, an independent research group of scholars and activists in St. Petersburg, stated in its report: “Since the beginning of Russia’s so-called “special operation” in Ukraine, polling companies, both Kremlin-loyal and independent, have shown impressive numbers of Russians’ support for military action. But the polls only partly help us understand […]
Opioid Settlement Funding, spend it on needed health services, not law enforcement
Dear Commissioners Parsons, Trescot, and D’Agostino, I am writing to express my concern regarding the allocation of Lancaster’s Opioid Settlement Funds. As you may be aware, there have been recent proposals to spend a significant portion of the 2022 funds on law enforcement staffing. Please consider allocating 100% of the remaining $275,000 towards treatment, recovery, […]
A Visit to the New Lancaster Public Library
By Robert Field The Board of Directors and officers of Manor Management Corporation were meeting at our Lancaster home, so I needed a comfortable place to read and stay cool on a very hot summer day. I decided this was an opportune time to visit the newly opened Lancaster public Library at Ewall plaza in […]
Russian Media Comments on Prigozhin’s Mutiny
By Slava Tsukerman The one of the most popular Russian independent websites “Republic” wrote on June 28, sharing opinion of the majority of anti-Putin commentators: “The mutiny by the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC and their handler Eugenie Prigozhin damaged the authority of Russian President Vladimir Putin – he had to abandon his promise to […]
Russian Opinions Changing by the Half Hour
By Slava Tsukerman Over the last several days I spent almost all my time reading all possible sources of information about events in Russia. Surprisingly, American sources are clearer and even more informed than Russian ones. The entire Russian Internet is crowded with publications on the subject. The publications are very different, contradict each other, […]