Putin’s war on Ukraine has devastating consequences for Russia, Russian analyst says
Vladimir Putin made five strategic mistakes that led him to his broadening of his war on Ukraine [The…
Many non-Russians inside Russia oppose Putin’s war; some see end of empire approaching
The divide between those in the Russian Federation who support Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and those who oppose…
Russia’s war against Ukraine isn’t a “real” war, most Russians think
Russians are against war, something they understand as a major war involving the West; but with regard to…
Protests against war in Ukraine spread across Russia
As is invariably the case, anti-war actions in Moscow have attracted the most attention not only because of…
Moscow worried about loss of titanium ore supplies from Ukraine
There is no question that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine primarily for political and geopolitical reasons. But there were…
Russia’s massive COVID-19 deaths may help Putin hide Ukrainian war losses
Even before Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost, Soviet citizens knew something about the losses their military was taking in the…
Putin now moving against more than Ukraine and Belarus
Now that the Kremlin dictator is engaged in what appears to be an increasingly all-out military invasion of…
Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991
For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed…
Putin-backed citizenship legislation tips his plans of more aggression and annexation
If the leader of any other country proposed new citizenship legislation that would give his government the power…
Ancient Ukrainian church brotherhoods as forerunner of nation’s civil society today, Horyevoy says
Many are investigating why civil societies have emerged in some countries but not in others; but their research,…
For human rights, 2021 ‘worst year in history of post-Soviet Russia,’ Davidis says
Sergey Davidis, a specialist on political prisoners at the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, says that 2021…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
Western leaders have made Putin into a Superman to avoid facing up to their own mistakes, Inozemtsev says
One of the most effective ways to conceal from oneself and others his or her failures is to…
Moscow moves up plan to finally scrap Soviet-era missiles
Thirty years after the end of the USSR, the Russian defense ministry has announced that it will begin…