During the first cold war, Moscow and Washington tried to recruit as many countries to their respective sides as possible but accepted the notion that some countries would remain non-aligned or neutral at least for some time to come....
The decision by the Ukrainian parliament to designate Euro-Atlantic integration as one of the main foreign policy priorities for the country has generated understandable enthusiasm among those citizens who hope that sooner or later Ukraine...
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation between the Christian West and the world of Islam. A smaller number have focused on the conflict between the...
The Lukashenka regime, “like many other post-Soviet authoritarian” systems, rests “not on the total support of the citizens but rather on their total indifference to what is taking place in their own country,” an indifference which...
Many people believe that the “post-truth” period the world is entering now is something new, but in fact, most people historically and those who lived in totalitarian regimes in the recent past have existed in a “post-truth”...
The so-called “Artemenko peace plan” is a much larger plot than appears at first glance. Behind the little-known intermediaries, there may be quite serious and influential people in powerful positions. The publication by The...
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...
Moscow officials and commentators have treated Barack Obama with “unconcealed hatred” at the end of his presidency, blaming him for the absence of an agreement between Washington and Moscow and forgetting how they welcomed him eight...
Even if Donald Trump or other Western leaders were to recognize a region as lying within Russia’s sphere of influence, Moscow does not have the resources to hold it for long given the hostility to Russia felt by the peoples of the...
The Bolsheviks liked to say that Marxism-Leninism was powerful because it was true; but Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov points out that compromising information – in Russian “kompromat” – is powerful regardless of whether it...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
