Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind and those who refuse to acknowledge what they in fact see that the Kremlin has used regular Russian military units in Ukraine and that...
During Mikhail Gorbachev’s first visit to Washington, Georgy Arbatov, the Soviet Union’s leading Americanist who was accompanying him, said that the Soviet leader was going to do something far more terrible to the United States than...
Putin’s Russia is “a unique case” in which a country is surviving by paradox, Brookings Institution analyst Lilia Shevtsova says, “converting weakness into strength, tactics into strategy, exceptions into rules, defeats into...
Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle against Islamic terrorism together with the West” but rather is “using all available resources and...
Vladimir Putin will continue to escalate the conflict not because he is strong but because Western leaders are not only weak but have, with the possible exception of Turkey’s Erdogan, been intimidated and desperately want to reach...
Russian propagandists and many in the West have been repeating the Kremlin’s mantra that ISIS cannot be defeated without Moscow’s participation and that in order to secure Russia’s agreement, it is necessary to overlook Vladimir...
Only if he is facing the complete collapse of his regime, Garry Kasparov says, will Putin consider invading the Baltic countries because NATO has made it clear that it will defend them and Moscow is unprepared to go to war with the West....
“The indecisiveness of the US leadership has given the armed forces of the Russian Federation the chance not only to bomb Syrians” opposed to Assad “but to begin a land campaign jointly with Assad’s forces,” a development that...
Neither the Russian nor the American side put out an official statement about the meeting of the two presidents in New York, but the comments by Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State John Kerry suggest the two agreed on far more about...
Putin’s visit to the US triggered a flurry of predictions. Some predicted Putin and Obama would at least find consensus on the Middle East. Others believed Putin would exchange his participation in fighting the Islamic State for...
Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried to falsify Russia’s responsibility in WWII. Putin suggested, at the beginning of 2020, that, according to “his...
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