Vladimir Putin is almost universally described as a brilliant political tactician, but if the West is to counter him effectively, it must recognize that he has a strategic vision of the world, one that constitutes “a long game” he...
The post-1945 world order is coming to an end, in no small part because of Vladimir Putin’s successful use of hybrid war, one of whose “most important components” is “the export of corruption” in the form of enormous amounts of...
At least in part because the Bolsheviks came out of emigration to take power, Moscow has long viewed emigres as far more important than do most other governments, treating them as groups to be subverted, communities from which to recruit...
The August 2, 2017 law to counter Russian aggression requires that the Trump Administration identify in a report to Congress all Russians who have illegally acquired wealth in their own country and then invested it in the US and begin to...
New political murders in Russia are likely because Vladimir Putin needs them as part of his effort to whip up hysteria against his opponents and thus protect his own power, lawyer Mark Feygin says, even though there are many elements in...
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,...
A bomb that detonated beneath a car on 27 June 2017 near Vul. Mekhanizatoriv 8 in Kyiv took the life of its driver, 39-year old Maksym Shapoval, a Colonel of the Ukrainian Army, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported. The detonation...
The identification of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian who fought against Kyiv in the first months of Moscow’s war in Ukraine as having been among those who suppressed the anti-corruption demonstrations in Moscow on Monday calls attention to a...
Swedish prosecutors say that two of the three suspects in the case of a bombing in Gothenburg (Göteborg) had received training in a camp operated by the ultra-right group Russian Imperial Movement near St. Petersburg and presented...
Tallinn has not yet provided an official explanation for its decision to expel two Russian officials from Moscow’s consulate in Narva, but Estonian experts say that such actions are typically taken because the officials involved are...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
