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The “CIS” section on NAnews is dedicated to events, processes and decisions taking place across the post-Soviet region and affecting Israel, Ukraine, Jewish communities, repatriates and the wider Russian-speaking audience.

Here you will find news, analysis and explanatory articles about the countries of the former Soviet Union: politics, security, migration, economy, social change, international relations and regional conflicts.

Special attention is given to topics directly connected to Israel: aliyah, the situation of Jewish communities, relations between CIS countries and Jerusalem, the impact of russia’s war against Ukraine, sanctions policy, diplomatic crises and shifts in public opinion.

This section helps readers understand how developments in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other countries of the region affect life in Israel and the international agenda.

For Russian-speaking Israelis and immigrants from the post-Soviet space, this topic is especially important. Many families, businesses, cultural ties and personal stories remain connected to the region. That is why CIS news is not only about foreign policy, but also about the daily reality of a large community in Israel.

This page features articles about political decisions, public protests, military threats, diplomacy, civil rights, economic changes and humanitarian issues shaping the new map of the region after 2022.

NAnews Israel News Nikk.Agency regularly updates the “CIS” section to help readers follow developments across the post-Soviet space and understand why they matter for Israel, Ukraine and the Jewish world.

Plague in Russia: death of a researcher, quarantine of 200 people, and WHO questions to the anti-plague institute — what is known and is there a threat to Israel

On October 8, 2026, the World Health Organization still does not have complete information about the death of 28-year-old Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Russian anti-plague institute in Irkutsk. The woman died of severe pneumonia, nearly 200 people who had contact with her were quarantined or under medical observation, and Russian authorities claim that […]

The Raphael Lemkin Society investigates how Russia is turning Ukrainian museums in temporarily occupied territories into a tool for rewriting memory

Raphael Lemkin gave the world the word “genocide”. A Polish-Jewish lawyer who studied in Lviv, he lost 49 relatives, including his parents, during the Holocaust. Later, his work became one of the intellectual foundations of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. But for Ukrainian history, Lemkin’s name has another […]

Not only ‘Galicia’: Russian national formations in the service of the Third Reich and the uncomfortable memory of World War II

Russian propaganda has been using World War II as a political weapon for decades. When it needs to attack Ukraine, it repeatedly recalls the SS Division ‘Galicia’, the battalions ‘Nachtigall’ and ‘Roland’, Ukrainian nationalism, individual episodes of collaborationism, and wartime crimes. But as soon as it comes to Russian formations that served the Third Reich, […]

For ‘Masyanya’, the Russian prosecutor demands almost six years in a penal colony: Oleg Kuvaev is being tried in absentia while he lives in Israel

On October 2, 2026, “Mediazona” reported from the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg: the prosecution demanded in absentia to sentence the creator of the cult animated series “Masyanya,” Oleg Kuvaev, to 5 years and 11 months in a general regime colony. This is not yet about a verdict — the court’s decision is to […]

Ukraine, the Horde, and ‘reverse colonialism’: what the new framework offers for discussing Russia and empires

Украина, Орда и «колониализм наоборот»: что предлагает новая рамка для разговора о России и империях

Ukrainian diplomat and expert of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation Volodymyr Lakomov in a column for “Literary Ukraine” proposes a controversial but understandable thesis: the colonial experience of Eastern Europe cannot be described only in the language of “classical” modern empires. At the center of his argument is the idea of “reverse colonialism”: a […]

March 18: 11th Anniversary of Russia’s Annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea — Jewish Community, Karaites, Krymchaks, and Israel’s Position

18 марта: 11-я годовщина аннексии украинского Крыма Россией — еврейская община, караимы, крымчаки и позиция Израиля

11 years ago, on March 18, 2014, Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea, which led to long-term political and humanitarian consequences. This illegal annexation was carried out in violation of international law and without Ukraine’s consent. On the peninsula, among other ethnic groups, there was a Jewish community, including Karaites and Crimean Jews, small but significant peoples […]

“Registration” by Glukhovsky: why the novel about the price of human life sparked controversy among Russians – and what does Israel have to do with it

On September 17, 2026, Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the famous “Metro 2033,” published a new novel “Registration.” He posted it in full, for free, on his own Telegram channel. The book about the pregnant girlfriend of a Russian contract soldier trying to urgently register a marriage gradually turns into a story about money, war, […]

How Israel condemned Russian strikes on Ukraine since 2022: from ‘a serious violation of the international order’ to ‘Russian attacks on Kyiv’

On September 25, 2026, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Russian attacks on Kyiv following the death of a 14-year-old Israeli citizen. But this statement is far from the first. Over four and a half years of war, Israeli diplomacy has several times directly named Russia, sometimes spoke more cautiously, and at certain periods […]

Six years ‘for Ukrainian borscht’: Russian cuisine historian Pavel Syutkin received a colony sentence in the case of ‘military fakes’

Formally, Pavel Syutkin, of course, was not imprisoned for borscht. On September 15, 2026, the Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the 61-year-old writer and historian of Russian cuisine to six years in a general regime colony on charges of spreading, according to Russian legislation, “knowingly false information” about the Russian army. He was also […]

Russia is not only the deepest barbarism, but also an absolute relentlessness to kill, maim, destroy what has been created by civilization

Россия — это не только глубочайшее варварство, но и абсолютная неудержимость убивать, калечить, уничтожать то, что создано цивилизацией

This is not a “military mistake,” but a barbaric urge to destroy what civilization has created. Russia’s strike on June 15, 2026, on Ukraine was organized in such a way that it could not be called just a military chronicle. Under fire were not only residential areas, not only energy infrastructure, not only streets where […]

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