The most important change in the Russian Constitution that Vladimir Putin has called for has almost been lost sight of in all the coverage of what has been taking place, Vitaly Portnikov says. That change is Putin’s desire to have the...
The parliaments of Central European and Baltic countries, one by one, have been passing resolutions condemning the Kremlin’s attempts to rewrite history and blame the unleashing of World War II on the victims of the tragedy, and not on...
In today’s message to the Federal Assembly of Russia, President Vladimir Putin proposed a large-scale constitutional reform, which should significantly change the architecture of the state. Putin himself intends to decline to...
According to the organizers of the commissioning ceremony of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline, the participation of Vladimir Putin was to demonstrate the effectiveness of Russian efforts to create new transit gas pipelines that would allow...
The year 2019 ended with the exchanging of New Year’s greetings between the heads of the Ukrainian and Russian states. This was the first such greeting exchange since the start of the Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014. This...
Even if literally the next day after the press release about reaching an agreement between Russia and Ukraine on gas transit, there was not any news about Ukrainian companies purchasing gas from Gazprom, the question of an incorrupt nature...
The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the rules for the operation of the not-yet-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. According to European law, this gas...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed genuinely perplexed by the very possibility of making public his telephone conversation with Donald Trump. While answering questions from Ukrainian journalists, Zelenskyy even said that he had assumed that only...
Vitaly Serdyuk, the lawyer of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said that Yanukovych is preparing to return to Ukraine. It is interesting that Yanukovych sets his lawyers to political tasks rather than legal ones: to bring...
Despite the obvious and oft-expressed desire of the presidents of France and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to hold a meeting of leaders of the countries of the so-called “Normandy format” in September, the...
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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