Putin is like Khrushchev between Cuban Missile Crisis and his 1964 ouster
In the swirl of rumors reflecting the limited and only suggestive information anyone has about what is going…
Moscow in a Time of Twitter
Rumors have always swirled around the Russian throne especially when anything happens or is thought to be happening…
Putin has lost monopoly on use of force and balance among force structures
The Putin regime has lost two things on which any state depends: a monopoly on the legitimate use…
Ukraine divided less between “east” and “west” than between “city” and “village”
Most discussions about divisions in Ukraine focus either on the differences of "east" and "west" or on those…
When pro-Moscow militants return from Ukraine to Russia…
Yesterday, Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Putin’s Security Council, warned that Russia will face a serious terrorist threat if…
Kyiv commentator: Putin’s Crimean Anschluss is leading to Russia’s suicide
When Vladimir Putin decided a year ago to annex Crimea, he and his supporters expected that this would…
As in Stalin’s time, Russians denounce other Russians for personal gain
As in Stalin’s time, Russians are now denouncing other Russians simply in order to get their apartments, their…
Moscow commentator: Putin’s vision means new Cold War more likely to go hot
The new cold war that has begun in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine does not have…
Anti-Moscow Chechen leader: “No thinking person can believe Chechens killed Nemtsov”
Akhmed Zakayev, who was a close aide to Dzhokhar Dudayev and who leads the anti-Moscow Chechens from London,…
The New Face of Appeasement
It is time to give Neville Chamberlain a rest as the sole poster child for appeasement. Yes, he…
Latvian MP: Moscow using Russian organizations to destabilize Latvia
Solvita Āboltiņa, chairman of the Latvian parliament’s security committee, says that the 100 NGOs in Latvia receiving money…
Russian politician: Murderers of opposition figures in Russia rarely caught and those behind them almost never
In the increasingly Orwellian world that is Vladimir Putin’s Russia, one in which the lie is the truth,…
Russian economist: Putin’s admission on Crimea gives West ‘unique’ chance to force change
Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that he personally decided upon and conducted a special operation to seize Crimea “opens a…
Separatism coming back to haunt the Kremlin: Moscow Peoples Republic
Yury Batishchev, who styles himself as the leader of the Moscow liberation movement, Rusinsky Kray, has announced the…