No Ukrainian should have a Soviet-style New Year’s tree
Many Russians still view Pavel Postyshev (1887-1939) as their favorite Bolshevik because of his role, as the author…
How bad are things in Russia? Children ask Grandfather Frost to send them to the dentist
There are many ways to measure how bad things are in any country but perhaps the best way…
Putin’s ‘achievement’ in Syria: now Russians the target for Muslim anger, Portnikov says
The murder of the Russian ambassador to Türkiye is the first victim of the hatred of Russia and…
Putin needs a new cold war to stave off the end of the empire, just like Soviet leaders, Karelian says
The Soviet leaders in the 1940s initiated the first cold war to delay the disintegration of their empire;…
A state of war exists between Russia and Ukraine, Portnikov says
It is a measure of the triumph of Kremlin propagandists, the fecklessness of Western leaders and the fears…
Western defeatism vis-à-vis Russia just as unjustified now as it was in 1979
In 1979, many in the West felt that Moscow was winning and Western countries were divided and in…
Putin’s Syrian campaign a truly ‘Orwellian one,’ Kalashnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in Syria, Moscow commentator Maxim Kalashnikov says, is “Orwellian in the purest way, completely…
Disentangling the ‘fraternal’ Russian and Ukrainian peoples in 1991 and now
Two new commentaries, one about Russia’s refusal to enter into any larger political structure in 1991 if Ukraine…
Debates about Putin now recall those about Hitler in mid-1930s, Ikhlov says
There has been a dramatic increase in the influence of pro-Putin forces in the West in recent months,…
Moscow scrambling to fill ranks of its forces in Syria and elsewhere
Russia’s indefensible actions against the civilian population of Aleppo, actions that rise to the level of crimes against…
Russian occupier of Crimea threatens to repeat one of Stalin’s most barbaric acts in 1944
Natalya Kryzhko, a member of the Russian-organized and imposed “parliament” in occupied Crimea, who is upset by Crimea…
Basis of Putin’s optimism: big US Firms were quite ready to overlook even Stalin’s crimes
A Russian blogger says that the basis of Vladimir Putin’s optimism about a new relationship between Moscow and…
Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says
Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle…
Putin wants to do more than to install Trump as US president: he wants to destroy the West
As evidence mounts that Vladimir Putin used a variety of covert means to promote the election of Donald…