Putin using Victory Day cult as Brezhnev did – to distract attention from failures and the future
Vladimir Putin is using Victory Day for the same reasons Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who made it a…
Is Putin about to begin a third Chechen war to escape Ukrainian impasse?
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement that his forces should attack anyone, “Muscovite or Stavropol resident,” who might appear…
Another Pastor Niemöller moment passes in Moscow
Perhaps the most searing self-indictment of those who watch the onset of totalitarianism but do not protest because…
Ukraine invasion “veterans” are bigger problem for Russia than ones from prior two wars
Because of the nature of the war in Ukraine and the kind of people who have gone to…
Putin needs both: a Great Victory and a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Vladimir Putin finds himself caught in a variety of paradoxes none more glaring than his simultaneous need to…
Ukrainians have many reasons to be grateful to Putin, Kyiv analyst says
There is a hoary Soviet anecdote about a group of very old Russian women marching through Red Square…
Russian occupation pressuring Crimean Tatars by offering aid to other deported peoples
Russian occupation officials are talking with the representatives of the Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks and Germans, four small nationalities…
EU energy plan puts Kaliningrad at risk, Moscow paper says
Gas pipeline issues have attracted far more attention, but a plan for a unified energy network among European…
Ukrainian refugees in Russia worse off than they were in Ukraine, Russian official says
In a statement that undermines Vladimir Putin’s notion that Russians and Ukrainians are one people and that is…
Ukrainians view the people as sovereign; Russians think Putin is
Ukrainians and Russians differ fundamentally in the source of sovereignty in their countries, with Ukrainians, like citizens of…
Kremlin’s five top lies last week about Ukraine
As it has taken to doing, Kyiv’s “Delovaya stolitsa” newspaper publishes today a list of “the top five…
Russian who went to fight in Donbas says he was ‘not in an army but in a criminal band’
Bondo Dorovskikh, a Russian businessman, volunteered to go to Ukraine to “fight fascism” and defend “the Russian idea;”…
Kyiv commentator: Putin isn’t an imperialist; he’s a Nazi
Vladimir Putin’s statements about Ukraine in his “direct line” program yesterday look “moderate” but only in comparison with…
Is Russia losing its nuclear defense capability?
There are many reasons why Vladimir Putin has been threatening the West with the possibility that he will…