Kremlin has lost control of the future, but also the past
Russia, it is sometime said, is a country with an unpredictable past; but Russian governments have worked hard…
Putin is ‘a criminal but not Stalin’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Is Lukashenka running out of bullets? – and three other reasons why Belarus will never be the same again
In Gorbachev’s time, many Russians told an anecdote about a man who, having stood in line for hours…
All Russia is now one big hot spot, regional affairs expert says
Natalya Zubarevich, perhaps Russia’s most prominent specialist on developments in the regions beyond the Moscow Ring Road, says…
A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the…
Two Dictators and Two Responses
For more than two decades, many governments and commentators in the West have allowed themselves to feel morally…
‘Putin is the Bin Laden of today’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Putin is getting ready to attack in Ukraine, Shmulyevich says
“Two terrible events in one day” – the murder in Kyiv of former Russian Duma member Denis Voronenkov…
New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and the US Face in Putin’s Russia
By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward…
Putin’s ‘secret weapon’ against the West – massive illegal cash hordes in foreign countries
The Russian economy is small relative to that of Europe or the United States. It military is hardly…
Warning to Russia’s neighbors: Moscow started to undermine Ukraine in Crimea already in 2008
It has become an article of faith that Vladimir Putin acted suddenly in annexing Ukraine’s Crimea that many…
Lukashenka’s crackdown will not intimidate Belarusians now, Kalyakin says
Alyaksandr Lukashenka may crack down on protesters later this month in a bloody fashion just as he did…
With Crimean Anschluss, Putin blocked Maidan from spreading to Russia, Shiropayev says
Even though Vladimir Putin did not take part in the public commemorations of the third anniversary of his…
The Crimean Anschluss at three: ‘A jubilee of stupidity and criminality’
Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, said more than she perhaps intended when she declared that the…