For Putin, Trump is not an end in himself but a means to weaken the US and the West
In the wake of Tuesday’s election in the United States, all too many commentators in the West appear…
Trump may prove to be a friend of Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
No former Soviet republic has been more worried than Ukraine about the consequences for itself of the election…
Trump’s energy and trade policies may hurt Russia more than Western sanctions do, Moscow analysts say
Even though Vladimir Putin hopes that Donald Trump will end the sanctions regime against Russia, the president-elect’s proclaimed…
‘Chinese question’ looks far more threatening in Siberia than in Moscow
Russians in Moscow and European Russia are concerned about the rise of China and the impact of this…
100,000 Muslims have fled Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine
Prior to Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and aggression in the Donbas, there were only a few thousand…
Reaction in former Soviet space to Trump victory ranges from fears of a sellout to belief US policy won’t change
Initial reaction in the former Soviet space to the victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections…
Month after US elections ‘most favorable’ time for Moscow to destabilize Ukraine, Illarionov says
Because the United States will be distracted by its elections and their aftermath, Andrey Illarionov says, the next…
“Putin is a Russian Trump” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Analysts: Russia today far more dangerous than USSR was and West far less ready to counter it
Russia under Vladimir Putin is far more dangerous to the West than the Soviet Union ever was, two…
Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea saved Ukraine from going back to its old ways, Kazarin says
Many commentators have pointed out that Stalin was the greatest state builder in Ukrainian history because he added…
With Tsar Bell that never rang and Tsar Cannon that never fired, what might one expect of Moscow’s bomb shelters?
The Russian government has proudly announced that it has bomb shelters for all Muscovites in the event of…
Putin’s propagandists complicit in his crimes, Eidman says
The Soviet system required its propagandists to justify whatever the Kremlin did and to lie for it whenever…
Russian language knowledge declining in country’s non-Russian republics, Barinov says
Despite the insistence of Moscow officials that everyone in the Russian Federation speaks Russian and that therefore support…
Chinese to become second largest ethnicity in Russia, Moscow demographer says
If current trends continue, with ever fewer immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus coming to Russia and…