Five more disturbing revenants from Soviet past in Putin’s Russia
Even as Vladimir Putin claims that Russia is fated to have a great future, the Kremlin leader is…
Moscow has put the Russian Internet ‘under martial law,’ Agora says
Moscow’s crackdown on the Russian section of the Internet over the last year has been so seeping and…
Moscow’s manipulation of statistics seen getting even worse in run-up to Putin’s re-election
Russian officials have always manipulated and sometimes totally falsified statistical information about their country, but in the coming…
Nicholas II wanted ‘good little war’ with Japan; Putin needs one in Ukraine, Kalashnikov says
Nicholas II famously wanted “a good little war” that would bring him victory and shore up popular support…
Trump and Ukraine: ‘a small country far away about which we know little’?
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s dismissal of Czechoslovakia as an artificial country created at Versailles and one that…
Putin may exploit disarray in Washington to launch attack on Belarus, Minsk experts say
Two experts at the Minsk Center for Strategic and International Research say that Vladimir Putin may use the…
Russian forces using Hamas-style terrorist tactics in Ukraine, Portnikov says
Russian forces in Ukraine are now using one of the most beloved tactics of terrorist groups like the…
Russians consume 700 calories a day fewer now than at the end of Soviet times
Comparing social well-being across time or among nations is a notoriously difficult challenge, but the most universally accepted…
Only ‘de-Muscovization’ can save Russia from disaster, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s regime is “ideologically close” to the right-wing populism now sweeping the West in its “xenophobia, isolationism…
Putin’s actions in Avdiivka show he killed his beloved idea of ‘a triune people’ of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Ikhlov says
Like many Russian nationalists, Vladimir Putin has long insisted that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are not separate nations…
Moscow doesn’t expect Trump to end sanctions all at once but ‘cleverly’ over time, Markov says
“Russophobia is so deeply rooted in European-American ideology,” Sergey Markov says, that Moscow doesn't expect new US President…
‘Russian spies interfered with Nobel Committee to prevent Poroshenko Peace Prize’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
West’s failure to confront Putin on Olympics convinced him he could invade Ukraine without penalty, Titov says
Many trace the origins of Vladimir Putin’s conviction that the West will ultimately come to accept whatever he…
Putin is attacking in Ukraine precisely to boost chances for ‘Big Deal’ with Trump
Some commentators are suggesting Vladimir Putin launched his latest round of aggression in Ukraine because he has gotten…