I. The Metropol gala It was 10 December 2015. Russia’s global propaganda television channel RT (formerly Russia Today) was celebrating its 10th anniversary with a lavish gala. The organizers had put great effort into hand-picking the...
Russian companies have earned some three trillion US dollars from the sale of oil and gas abroad since Vladimir Putin came to power; but instead of using this money to increase the capitalization of these firms or to transform the economy,...
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the West has already been taking the necessary first steps in that direction, but such appeals and even more such celebrations fail to...
Vladimir Putin’s regime, which has always been authoritarian and kleptocratic, nonetheless has evolved over the course of the last 18 years through four stages and now is entering its fifth and final one, according to Moscow commentator...
So the first question is let’s have a quick recap of all the big candidates positioned towards Europe. We know, for example, that Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon are strongly against Europe. Can you tell us more about it?...
Many in the West have “the wrong idea about how the Russian manipulation machine works,” Igor Eidman says, failing to understand that Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war is based on the model of a real military campaign and that if his...
Vladimir Putin has achieved a real but Pyrrhic victory with his policy of hybridity: domestically – by transforming Russia into “one gigantic and bestial special service” and internationally – by infecting other countries...
On July 13, Brussels will host the presentation of Hybrid Warfare à la Russe by Yuriy Fedorov, expert in Russian foreign and military policy. Representatives of the Ukrainian Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies will...
On Wednesday, a group of pro-Putin French parliamentarians will travel to Russia and to Russia-occupied Crimea. Thierry Mariani, a member of parliament from Nicolas Sarkozy’s “The Republicans” party, stated this on air...
On 28 September 2017, Ukraine’s new law on education entered into force. Called to advance Ukraine’s badly needed education reform, it has been praised for introducing the concept of competence-orientation and giving schools...
