When people in the West talk about Ukraine, they usually say “probably, the truth lies somewhere in the middle” and “both sides are guilty there.” When I hear this, I can’t remain silent. After all, it’s...
By his orders to the Russian army to respond “harshly” to any challenge to them in Syria, Vladimir Putin has brought the world to “the brink of war,” in the words of Wacław Radziwinowicz, the Moscow correspondent of Warsaw’s...
Once again as so often after Moscow has behaved badly, voices in the West are again calling for a return to “’normal dialogue’” with the Kremlin, arguing that “’isolating Russia is counterproductive’” and that the West must...
Better to be a victim than an aggressor Many experts have recently commented on how Russia benefits from the tragedy in Paris. These attacks fit nicely into Russia’s modern geopolitical strategy, the aim of which is to destroy relations...
With his constitutional amendments on local self-administration, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has blocked Vladimir Putin’s plan to force Kyiv to allow Moscow-occupied regions to act as part of Ukraine, Andrey Piontkovsky says,...
During the Cold War, some on the European left routinely chanted “better red than dead” to show their opposition to the United States. Now, their descendants have updated that slogan for analogous reasons to “better Putin than a...
The collective West has been unable to force the Kremlin to stop undermining the Ukrainian state. The leaders of the U.S. and the European Union failed to provide Ukraine with defensive weapons and are just creaking open the wallet of...
Idiotism is on the rise in both Russia and the West, with its spread in Russia having transformed that country “from a land of liars to one of idiots,” according to Vitaly Portnikov, and in the West having become the latest...
Sanctions against Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes are like those imposed in the past against apartheid in South Africa: morally necessary but insufficient by themselves to cause political change. And moving up forces to...
Because Vladimir Putin seeks both recognition as the leader of a superpower and a new Yalta at which he and Western leaders will partition the world into spheres of influence and because he can only move toward that goal by new acts of...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
