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Danish PM criticizes Europe’s “naive” attitude to Russian threats
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Mette Frederiksen urged Europe to increase defense and security funding to deter a “more aggressive Russia.”
Munich Security Index: Global perception of Russia as threat decreases
Perceptions of Russia's war in Ukraine as a global threat have decreased since 2022, with only the UK and Japan still rating it as the top risk.
Baltic states to build defensive installations along borders with Russia, Belarus
The Estonian Ministry of Defense announced this development, stating that the move aims to bolster defenses and deter potential military threats.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 58: Ukrainian troops hold their positions in Donbas, Russians bury war crimes victims’ bodies in mass graves
Morning report day 58 – April 22 The report is based on media reports, expert analyses, and official…
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 52: Russian missiles hit Kyiv, 7 dead after shelling of evacuation buses near Kharkiv
Morning report day 52 – April 16 Situation According to information from the General Staff: Two formations of…
Russia’s military exercise in Belarus prepares for war
The Russian-Belarusian large-scale military exercise Soyuznaya Reshimost (Allied Resolve) 2022 forms a critical dimension in Moscow’s war planning…
It took Red Army ‘a decade’ to subdue Western Ukraine after 1945, Russian specialist on Ukraine warns Kremlin
Anyone thinking about a Russian invasion of Ukraine today should remember that it took the Red Army at…
New Russian aggression in Ukraine will lead not just to sanctions but to a new Iron Curtain, Skobov says
Moscow commentators and presumably the Kremlin, Aleksandr Skobov says, are suggesting that the West has already capitulated to…
Russia seeks to maintain its global status by making threats and keeping others off guard, Shevtsova says
Russia is “attempting to maintain its global role with military threats to undermine the status quo at any…
The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 2)
According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make…
The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 1)
The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict…
Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says
Many who hear Vladimir Putin’s most outrageous statements or see his most aggressive actions are inclined to say…
For Russia’s rulers, war now a defining ‘principle of reality,’ Pavlovsky says
For the 30 years of the existence of the Russian Federation, the Kremlin has increasingly gotten involved in…
A war and peace visit to Moscow
After arriving in Moscow, Nuland had a lengthy meeting on October 12 in the foreign ministry with Deputy…
Zapad 2021 suggests, in event of war, Moscow could seize Baltics but lose Kaliningrad
Military exercises not only make known what a government believes could happen but become an occasion for its…
Black is white, freedom is slavery, and Stalin’s invasion of Poland was ‘a liberation campaign,’ Russian Foreign Ministry says
In Putin’s increasingly Orwellian approach to the world, the Russian Foreign Ministry on the anniversary of the introduction…
Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says
That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…
US-Germany Nord Stream 2 agreement — a victory for Russia
At the same time, European gas storage levels are at only 53 percent of their capacity, or nearly…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Russia prepares for Zapad 2021, keeps heavy armed forces close to Ukraine
On June 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Moscow had withdrawn around 10,000 troops from the border…