In yet another indication that the November 10 declaration was not a peace accord and that conflicts over Qarabagh will continue, albeit in new ways, President Ilham Aliyev and other Azerbaijani officials now say that Russian forces in the...
Because of the pandemic, 2020 was “’the year of the Apocalypse” for both Russia and the West, but the two responded in opposite ways: the West sought to address the underlying problems the coronavirus revealed, Lilia Shevtsova says....
The special departments in educational institutions that existed in Soviet times and were headed by the KGB were never banned, but until recently, their roles were limited to deciding on access to closed archives and overseeing contacts...
One of the most obscure aspects of Stalin’s rule was his deportation of Finns and Norwegians in 1940 away from the Soviet border and the destruction of most of them in the GULAG. Few studies have been prepared on this act of genocide,...
Some people view what the Russian authorities are doing as solicitous of ethnic differences, says Kuznetsova, the Estonian and Hungarian-trained linguist from Ioshkar-Ola; but in fact, it is a strategy intended to destroy rather than...
Step 1. Ukraine’s military and political leadership must realize that modern warfare is very different from the war for which the General Staff is preparing In September 2019, when drone attacks (claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels)...
In a commentary for the Riddle portal, he says that sanctions on Russian defense producers have been used since the 1990s and have had slowed modernization, increased costs and intensified tensions between that sector and the Kremlin. Read...
Trenin writes, “Berlin is ending the era launched by Gorbachev of a trusting and friendly relationship with Moscow.” The sentence implies that the break in the relations is a German initiative, rather than a response to a...
The formation of a fundamentally new Russian political force – the FSB – took place throughout the entire 1990s and lasted until 2003. In this process of formation, three stages can be distinguished: commercialization; criminalization;...
“State security agencies have always been an instrument of the supreme power of the existing political regime… In the 1990s the security services stopped monitoring latent processes in the socio-political and ethnonational areas....
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern Ukraine to wage war against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, another silent front opened in the classrooms of...
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