Ten new and discouraging statistics perfectly capture Putin’s Russia
The last 24 hours have brought a flood of discouraging statistics that both individually and collectively more perfectly…
Outline of possible ‘Big Deal’ between Putin and Trump on Ukraine emerging, Oleshchuk says
Ukrainians and their friends and supporters have been so worried that any grand bargain between Vladimir Putin and…
Ten pieces of bad economic news from Russia in last 24 hours alone
While the attention of Russians and others around the world have been diverted – and one should ask…
Moscow plans to ‘export separatism’ to Baltic countries, Christensen says
Moscow analyst Yuri Christensen says that Moscow plans to “export separatism” across the entire former Soviet space, including Estonia,…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
Putin’s special operations achieve a second and larger victory when they are exposed
Many in the US and elsewhere are horrified by Vladimir Putin’s overt and covert efforts to affect the…
Russian invasion brought too many guns to Ukraine for any future protest to remain entirely peaceful, Bekeshkina warns
Iryna Bekeshkina, the sociologist who heads Kyiv’s Democratic Initiatives Foundation, says that so many Ukrainians now are in…
Kyiv analyst dismisses former Ukrainian PM’s plans for pro-Russian ‘government in exile’
Ruslan Bortnik, the head of the Ukrainian Institute for Analysis and Management, says today that the idea now…
Russia now at real risk of being stripped of 2018 World Cup, Trump its “last hope”
With yet another sports competition just moved out of Russia (2017 Biathlon World Cup & World Championships) and…
Russian special services aren’t the all-powerful agencies many believe, Kirillova says
Many in Russia and the West have come to believe, under the influence of Putin and pro-Putin propaganda…
Western leaders again more afraid of Russian disintegration than of Russian threat, Kasparov says
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov said many interesting things in the course of his responses to questions from…
Like Crimea, ‘Trump is Ours,’ Russian products proclaim and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow is trying to destroy the Crimean civic nation, Shtepa says
Even as Moscow seeks to impose a civic national identity on the various nations of the Russian Federation,…
Russia fell apart when its leaders overrated its strength and that could happen again, Inozemtsev says
Twice in the last “long century,” Russia has fallen apart because its leaders overrated the strength of their…