Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not as well, especially in a world where many military tasks are outsourced and where there are some tasks states do not...
The Russian occupiers in Crimea are increasingly targeting the wives and children of Crimean Tatar activists in an attempt to get at the parents via their family members, Zair Smedlyaev, one of their number says, yet another indication of...
Earlier this month, the governor of Orel Oblast, a Russian region adjoining Ukraine, called for a commission to promote the integration of the self-proclaimed Donbas republics, the LNR and the DNR, into the Russian Federation. Then, a...
In the best Putinite tradition, Russia has begun to take steps to integrate and absorb the Donbas into the Russian Federation not by some big declaration in Moscow but rather via moves taken by the governor of Russia’s adjacent Orel...
Three US senators, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Rob Portman, have called for Washington to promulgate a policy of “the non-recognition” of Moscow’s illegal annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea and to model it on American non-recognition...
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that he might do either because the Ukrainian peninsula’s residents speak Russia or because that might allow for...
Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities are preparing some sort of provocation in occupied Crimea, one they will blame on Kyiv as part of their continuing effort to discredit it in the eyes of the West, according...
While most coverage of Russia has been focusing on the FIFA World Cup and Russians’ obsession about a Croatian footballer shouting “Glory to Ukraine” after his team defeated Russia, Kremlin-linked commentators have stepped up...
Even though the Russian media are providing ever less coverage of Ukraine and Russia’s involvement there than only a year ago, Russians are gaining a deeper appreciation of what that Putin-initiated conflict has cost them because Russian...
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
