At first glance, the attack on the FSB building in Arkhangelsk appears to be but one of a series of similar terrorist acts in the Russian Federation, Natalya Gulevskaya says; but a closer examination of the personality of the criminal, his...
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group, Igor Eidman says; and once a Kremlin leader demonstrates he is ready to use this technique, the potential hit list...
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of their crimes is that many in both Russia and the West tend to treat each one as unique rather than see the linkages that exist among them, be it...
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that he might do either because the Ukrainian peninsula’s residents speak Russia or because that might allow for...
Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities are preparing some sort of provocation in occupied Crimea, one they will blame on Kyiv as part of their continuing effort to discredit it in the eyes of the West, according...
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where members of that “private” armed grouping were trained. But the Ukrainian portal Obozrevatel observes that “it...
As British investigators probe the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, international consensus continues to grow that Moscow was behind the attempted assassination. EU Heads of State and Government have voiced...
The European Union, whose destabilization has been one of the main goals of Putin’s foreign policy, exists and resists. The expulsion of Russian diplomats from the countries of the European Union and the United States will be an...
Now, it is time to look behind the smokescreen that pro-Kremlin disinformation is puffing around. Who are the actors behind this? How has the messaging developed? And what are the weakest points of the disinformation campaign? First, some...
Many people are looking at the tough language that London and other Western capitals have used to denounce Moscow for its attempt to kill Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK and concluding that Vladimir Putin has suffered a major...
Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special services (SVR, GRU, and even the FSB). This revelation was based on a misinterpretation of a report about the scale of Russian...
