Twenty-eight years ago today, Moscow sent troops to Lithuania and killed 13 people in the vain hope of blocking that Baltic country from recovering its independence. The Soviet government even timed this operation while the West was...
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said many interesting things in the course of his responses to questions from his followers, but perhaps the most important was this: Once again, as in 1991, Western leaders are more afraid of the...
Leaders, like all other people, typically go through a process whenever confronted with a radical change in the situation around them. The first stage is denial, an effort to convince themselves and others that nothing has really changed...
Thirty years ago the political landscape on the European continent seemed stable and fixated for decades to come. The continent was divided between the free West and the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the totalitarian Soviet imperium. A new...
The decision of US President Barack Obama to go along with Vladimir Putin on Syria represents a betrayal of the Syrian opposition the US had supported and that should serve as a warning to the Ukrainians that Washington under its current...
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...
Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and continuing aggression against Ukraine means that Ukrainians will never again accept ethnic Russians as “a fraternal people” or be prepared to defer to Moscow unless they are compelled to by...
Myroslav Marynovich, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who spent a decade in the Soviet GULAG and currently vice rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, has issued the statement below about how Ukrainians feel about what is...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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