FSB sets the stage for new crackdown in Crimea and across Russia
The head of the FSB in annexed Crimea says that “anti-Russian risings do not yet threaten” the peninsula…
Moscow commentator: A Transdniestria-2 in the Donbas wouldn’t be a Russian victory
Vladimir Mamontov, head of the Moscow Speaks radio station, says that the creation of a Transdniestria-like entity in…
Six Lessons from the Debaltseve defeat
The Debaltseve cauldron is coming to an end, Nikolay Mitrokhin says, and Ukraine is going to lose. Several…
Moscow urged to stop its ‘hybrid genocide’ of Crimean Tatars
Riza Asanov, president of the Warsaw-based Crimea Foundation, has sent an open letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey…
Moscow analyst: Western leaders have no doubts about the war being orchestrated by Putin to punish Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has ever fewer resources to prosecute his war in Ukraine, and consequently, eventually some kind of…
Vilnius analysts: Moscow would use a ‘conventional’ war against Lithuania
Most analysts have become so focused on Vladimir Putin’s use of “hybrid war” that they do not take…
Putin, in reaching out to the far right in Europe, has not forgotten the left
Vladimir Putin’s ostentatious flirting with right-wing nationalists in Europe has attracted so much attention that many have devoted…
Opinion: Putin ‘will not advance further’ in Ukraine
Many in Ukraine and elsewhere are fearful that Vladimir Putin will expand his aggression into other regions of…
Putin has destroyed any possible basis for unity on ‘post-Soviet space’
By his bombast and aggression, Vladimir Putin has destroyed “what was even a year ago called the post-Soviet…
Polish writer: If US doesn’t arm Ukraine, Putin will move against Baltic countries
If President Obama follows German Chancellor Merkel and doesn’t arm Ukraine, the US president will not only “be…
Moscow commentator: Russia in far worse shape than most assume
Vladimir Putin’s bombast and aggressiveness both is rooted in and helps conceal the underlying reality: “the situation of…
Russian language not united or unifying even inside Russian Federation
Despite Vladimir Putin’s having put the Russian language at the center of his ideas about a “Russian world,”…
Political analyst: Putin’s Russia is already ‘a classic fascist state’
Fascism is no longer a threat in Russia, Vitaly Portnikov says; rather, it is “an accomplished fact,” the…
Moscow commentator: Putin has no interest in peace in Ukraine now or ever
Vladimir Putin may organize short-lived ceasefires for various reasons, few of which have anything to do with Ukraine,…