Analyst: Putin acting like a terrorist in Ukraine because he can’t afford a full-scale war
Despite fears that Vladimir Putin may soon shift from his partially covert and still in some circles deniable…
Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ prompts Belarus to redefine ‘invasion’
Because both Vladimir Putin and the West have tried, albeit for radically different reasons, to avoid saying that…
Moscow analyst: Ukraine can win Putin’s war
Moscow believes that its attack on Mariupol and its envelopment of a significant Ukrainian force will put Russia…
Putin’s war in Ukraine keeps Moscow from addressing Cossack genocide of 1920s
Ninety-six years ago this weekend, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a…
Analyst: Putin trades in death because he has nothing else
Russian actions at the Donetsk airport over the last week and in Mariupol now show that “except for…
Moscow analysts: Putin wants to destroy Ukraine’s independence, not seize the Donbas
Those who hope for a resolution of what Moscow has managed to label “the Ukrainian crisis” need to…
Putin declares war on Kyiv the only way he can – by blaming Ukraine
Like the dictators he has modeled himself on, Vladimir Putin has issued the only kind of declaration of…
Russian journalist: Putin will demand the impossible by ignoring objective reality
The first impulse of Western leaders whenever there is a crisis is to seek negotiations on the principle…
Moscow commentator: Putin now has his storm troopers and pogroms will surely follow
Putin’s Russia has crossed a Rubicon: it now has sanctioned the Anti-Maidan Movement, a domestic version of Hitler’s…
Russian philosopher: Russia today has ‘nationalism without a nation’
“Post-Soviet Russian nationalism has been fatally flawed from the outset because it arose not from the word ‘nation’…
Moscow agrees to try Gyumri killer in Armenia but in a Russian court
Fearful that Armenian anger could lead to a break with Moscow or even spark an orange-style revolution in…
Russian Interior Ministry wants to restore Stalin-style ‘Troikas’ to speed up ‘justice’
The Russian interior ministry wants to revive the troikas Stalin used to conduct the purges in the 1930s…
Political analyst: Putin’s mental map is pre-1914 Europe
Every leader carries around in his or her head a mental map of the world, one that is…
Six reasons why Putin has stepped up Russian aggression in Ukraine now
Since Moscow’s Anschluss of Crimea almost a year ago, many in Russia, Ukraine and the West have asked…