Ukraine today a continuation of Ukrainian Republic of 1918-1920, Verkhovna Rada speaker says
Andrey Parubiy, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, is among those who say that Ukraine today should be…
Moscow keeping LNR and DNR from going to war — against each other, Mitrokhin says
Moscow may or may not use the "LNR" or "DNR" to renew its aggression against Ukraine, but it now…
Ukrainian independence exposed bankruptcy of all three Russian imperial projects, Ikhlov says
There “cannot be a more bitter date for contemporary Russia than August 24, 1991,” Yevgeny Ikhlov says, when…
Ukraine at 25 – a positive balance sheet
Anniversaries are always occasions to look back as well as to look forward, and today, 25 years after…
Hitler-Stalin pact still casts a shadow over Europe 77 years on
Seventy-seven years ago, Hitler and Stalin reached the agreement on the division of Eastern Europe into spheres of…
Russia and Ukraine will never have normal state-to-state relations, Berezovets says
The last 25 years show that Russia and Ukraine will never have normal state-to-state relations because neither the…
Moscow deliberately undercounting ethnic Ukrainians in Russia, Kyiv official says
Russian officials from Vladimir Putin on down have routinely complained that the Ukrainian authorities discriminate against ethnic Russians…
Post-Soviet states built the Soviet-style caricature of capitalism, Ukrainian commentator says
There are many reasons citizens of the post-Soviet states are unhappy with their current situation and look to…
Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…
Increased terrorism against Ukraine more likely than a conventional aggression by Moscow, Bezsmertnyi says
Moscow is unlikely to launch a conventional military attack against Ukraine in the near term, according to Roman…
Putin’s personnel changes make a long-term dictatorship more likely, Pastukhov says
The removal of Sergey Ivanov as head of the Presidential Administration, whatever the proximate causes, “symbolizes a change in…
Moscow’s invasion hasn’t affected Russian language rights in Ukraine, experts say
Despite Moscow’s claims and the expectations of some others, Russia’s Anschluss of Crimea and its invasion of the…
Moscow wants a Bosnia-style outcome for Ukraine, Oktysyuk says
Despite its declarations about taking revenge against Kyiv for supposedly sending “diversionists” into Crimea, Moscow is unlikely to…