Kremlin ever more Orwellian on Ukraine and the Crimean Tatars
Yesterday, Vladimir Putin said that “we in Russia have always considered that Russians and Ukrainians are one people,”…
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine reflects its failure to become a state
Moscow officials frequently suggest that the former Soviet republics are “failed states,” implying that the Russian Federation is…
Crimean Anschluss, the October Revolution of today, will eventually be scorned as such
Vladimir Putin’s illegal occupation and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, the first anniversary of which is being marked…
Putin’s return dispelled only two of the theories used to explain his disappearance
Vladimir Putin’s disappearance from public view quickly sparked a variety of explanations for his absence; now, his return…
While repressing Crimea’s Muslims, Moscow attempts to manipulate Saudis into more slots for Mecca
Despite its continuing repression of the Crimean Tatars in their Ukrainian peninsula homeland, Moscow has boldly asked Saudi…
Kremlin promoting national pride in place of individual dignity
In scathing terms, Elizaveta Aleksandrova-Zorina denounces the ways in which the Putin regime has promoted Russian national pride…
Moscow has promoted Ukraine’s ‘dismemberment’ since 2004, Kyiv disinformation specialist says
Many who look at Moscow’s propaganda efforts consider only their current state and fail to see the ways…
The only ‘color revolution’ likely in Russia now would be ‘brown’
“The only ‘color revolution,’ which is likely in Russia at the present moment,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, would be…
Putin has made the new Yalta he wants impossible
Because of his aggression against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has ensured that “there will never be a new Yalta,…
A post-Putin Russia might be bad news for everyone, including Ukraine, in the short term
If Vladimir Putin is ousted or when he dies, the Russian government likely to emerge at least in…
Are regional FSB offices being told to find specific numbers of ‘enemies of the people’?
One of the most horrific features of Stalin’s Great Terror at the end of the 1930s was the…
Putin is like Khrushchev between Cuban Missile Crisis and his 1964 ouster
In the swirl of rumors reflecting the limited and only suggestive information anyone has about what is going…
Moscow in a Time of Twitter
Rumors have always swirled around the Russian throne especially when anything happens or is thought to be happening…
Putin has lost monopoly on use of force and balance among force structures
The Putin regime has lost two things on which any state depends: a monopoly on the legitimate use…