Putin regime was a criminal one long before Crimea the doping scandal shows
One of the most important consequences of the current doping scandal, Kseniya Kirillova says, is that it undercuts…
Russian Forces on Belarusian Border Ready for ‘Full-Scale Proxy War,’ Minsk Expert Says
Staunton, July 1 – Yury Tsarik, a Belarusian security analyst, says that the strengthening of Russian forces on…
Putin propaganda rejects the possibility of rational thought, Shekhtman says
Vladimir Putin’s propaganda is intended to destroy “all the rules of rational thought” just as those who support…
Putin’s health cuts have made Russia into ‘epicenter of HIV/AIDS epidemic’
Vladimir Putin’s health care “optimization,” a euphemism for drastic cuts, has contributed to what the UN agency responsible…
Is Moldova’s apparent defeat Kremlin’s blueprint for Ukraine?
What Moscow has done in Moldova, the de facto confederalization of that country and its division between eastern…
Kremlin propaganda successfully exploiting five American vulnerabilities, Kirillova says
Lenin said that Marxism was powerful because it was true; his successors in the Kremlin have been as…
Kyiv commentator: Seven signs NATO has ‘finally come out of its coma’
Some Ukrainians were disappointed that NATO’s Warsaw Summit did not move further toward integrating Ukraine and Georgia into…
Orthodox procession in Ukraine ‘not a road to Kyiv but to Constantinople,’ Portnikov says
Many Ukrainians and their supporters have misunderstood the Orthodox procession organized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vitaly Portnikov…
Why the slow-burning Russo-Ukrainian war suddenly has gotten much hotter
A UN agency says the number of civilians who died as a result of the fighting in the…
“Russian troops not terrorists killed Beslan hostages” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Moscow’s propaganda about Ukrainian anti-Semitism — response to Ukrainian resistance, Ackerman says
“No one denies that on the territory of present-day Ukraine terrible pogroms took place at the time of…
Deteriorating situation in Russian Far East becoming a disaster for Moscow
Five news stories over the past few days suggest that Moscow faces a set of disasters in the…
Desertions on the rise from Moscow’s hybrid military force in Donbas
Desertions by pro-Moscow mercenaries in the Donbas are increasing, according to Dmytro Tymchuk, head of Ukraine’s Information Resistance Group, a…
Putin’s apparent cancellation of 3 public appearances this week sparks speculation
Vladimir Putin reportedly has canceled three domestic trips that he had been scheduled to make this week –…