Russian military insider: Moscow must redraw its military districts to respond to “new challenges”
If Russia is to respond to the new challenges it faces, Moscow must scrap the existing military districts…
Putin condemns ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attack but his ideological allies support it
Vladimir Putin followed the path of other world leaders and dutifully condemned the Islamist attack on the French…
Russia won’t change its approach to Ukraine until it changes itself, Kyiv analyst says
Ukrainians and others increasingly recognize that Russia will change its approach to Ukraine only when Russia itself changes,…
Organizer: Russians used humanitarian convoys to send militants into Ukraine
Staunton, December 25 – It is a fool’s errand to try to document and then denounce all the…
Ethnic Russians in Baltic countries ‘love Russia but don’t consider it their home’
Staunton, December 24 – Ethnic Russians living in Latvia and Lithuania “view themselves as a community and respect…
Russia experienced a coup in 2014 without a change in institutions
Staunton, December 25 – Over the last year, Russia has experienced a coup “without a change of institutions,…
Sociologist: Russians in biggest cities feel the most pain from crisis
Russians living in the largest cities, the people who benefited the most from the oil-driven boom of the…
FSB threatens pro-Ukrainian Russians with unemployment
In what is likely part of a broader pattern, FSB officers in several cities in the Urals have…
Putin making Belarus into base for attacking Kyiv, Minsk analyst says
Even as Moscow appears to be reducing its military actions in southeastern Ukraine, a “reduction” that is at…
75 Years On Russia Again Engaged in a Winter War
Seventy-five years ago today, Moscow launched what became known as the Winter War against Finland. It used much…
Putin wants a ‘New Munich’ on Ukraine but may not get it, Butakov says
The Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, as some have forgotten, was a compromise between what…
Dalia Grybauskaite: no need for Western leaders to deal with Putin directly
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says that she doesn’t want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin until…
Russia faces “first made-in-Moscow economic crisis”, Gubaryev says
“Russia is entering the first systemic economic crisis in post-Soviet times” which is of its own making and…
Crimea “needs new channels to counter Russian propaganda” – Dzhemilev
Mustafa Dzhemilev, the longtime leader of the Crimean Tatars, says that he is part of an effort to…