Just as Moscow opened the way to its annexation of Crimea by undermining Ukrainian positions in the Donbas, so too, if Vladimir Putin decides to officially incorporate parts of the Donbas into the Russian Federation, he would need to...
Lies are one thing; disinformation quite another, as the late Nathalie Grant warned decades ago. The first can muddy the waters but are typically quickly exposed by anyone who examines them. The second has a far greater and long lasting...
February 27 will mark exactly six months since the death of my close friend and colleague, Russian and Ukrainian journalist Aleksandr Shchetinin. And the following day, February 28 will mark the second anniversary of the murder of Russian...
Today, many people around the world will be commemorating the second anniversary of the murder of opposition Russian politician Boris Nemtsov near the Kremlin, but it doing so, they should not forget all the other journalists, opposition...
Another quite serious escalation may happen in the Balkans. This is an opinion shared by several European and Ukrainian experts in connection with the statements made by the senior leadership of the Serb republic (Republika Srpska), a...
At the end of the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck prophesied that “some damn thing in the Balkans” would be the trigger for a broader European war. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand I 1914 proved him right, with...
Should Moscow invade Ukraine, Kyiv stands a good chance of inflicting a strategic defeat on the Russian armed forces and emerging territorially intact. That’s the conclusion of retired United States Army Colonel with more than thirty...
The famous case of the Zaslavskiy brothers is now eight years old. In 2008-2009, Russia accused Ilya Zaslavskiy, an employee of the company TNK-BP, and his brother Oleksandr, of transferring confidential industry information to British...
Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at his home in Kyiv over the weekend. Alexander Shchetinin, founder and editor-in-chief of the Novy...
As the presidential election in the United States approaches, the anxiety of political commentators and ordinary Americans grows. The unexpected success of Donald Trump has raised concern not only in the Ukrainian Diaspora and among...
Fake news and disinformation receive most of the attention of western security institutions when it comes to examining Russian meddling in democratic countries. What escapes the attention of many an analyst is that disinformation is only a...
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