Putin’s personality cult exceeds Stalin’s ‘by every measure’
Although few want to recognize that this is the case, the personality cult surrounding Vladimir Putin far exceeds…
A vicious circle: The more aggressive Putin is, the more Russians love him
Russian polls, admittedly not the most reliable source, suggest that the more aggressive Vladimir Putin is, the more…
Former KGB colleague: Putin isn’t going to start a nuclear war but may destroy Russia
Despite threatening language, Vladimir Putin is not going to start a nuclear war, according to Yuri Shvets, who…
Another Caucasus war for Putin? Daghestan aligns with Chechnya against Russian law enforcement
Vladimir Putin’s “Kadyrov problem” just got a lot larger, so large in fact that it may ultimately cost…
How Putin’s ‘Kadyrov problem’ impacts Russia and Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s use of Ramzan Kadyrov brought a kind of stability in the North Caucasus – professions of…
Putin teaches geography: ‘All the former USSR is Russia’
The 150-minute film “The President” about Vladimir Putin is mostly boring and predictable in that it insists that…
Moscow sociologist: Putin’s power resembles a witch doctor’s
Totalitarianism can emerge in any society if conditions are created to promote the restoration of “social and cultural…
Expert: No non-military solution to the Russian-Ukrainian War possible
Yesterday, Yuri Lutsenko, the leader of the Poroshenko Bloc in Ukraine's Verkhova Rada, said that the probability of…
Russia’s CIS partners won’t celebrate Great Fatherland War Victory anymore
The Western media have kept close track of the growing list of world leaders who won’t be attending…
Kremlin’s ‘Top 5’ misrepresentations about Ukraine this week
As he does each Sunday, Dmitry Bukovsky of Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” chooses from among the flood of Russian…
Ukraine must develop its own myth about Crimea to defeat Russia’s
The current war in Ukraine is “a battle between the Russian myth about Ukraine and the Ukrainian myth…
Former head of Ukrainian Security Service: Putin can’t conquer Ukraine but he can start a WW3
In an address to the Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn yesterday, Igor Smeshko pointed to one of the…
20 questions for those who back Putin’s aggression in Ukraine
Viktor Kadochnikov, a Russian blogger, poses 20 questions that he suggests those who support Vladimir Putin’s aggression in…
Analyst: Putin knows massive attack on Ukraine would be catastrophic
Andrey Piontkovsky, who in the past has warned that Vladimir Putin will continue to escalate his acts of…