Putin’s war in Ukraine keeps Moscow from addressing Cossack genocide of 1920s
Ninety-six years ago this weekend, the Soviet government launched what became a decade-long campaign to “de-Cossackize” Russia, a…
Analyst: Putin trades in death because he has nothing else
Russian actions at the Donetsk airport over the last week and in Mariupol now show that “except for…
Moscow analysts: Putin wants to destroy Ukraine’s independence, not seize the Donbas
Those who hope for a resolution of what Moscow has managed to label “the Ukrainian crisis” need to…
Putin declares war on Kyiv the only way he can – by blaming Ukraine
Like the dictators he has modeled himself on, Vladimir Putin has issued the only kind of declaration of…
Russian journalist: Putin will demand the impossible by ignoring objective reality
The first impulse of Western leaders whenever there is a crisis is to seek negotiations on the principle…
Moscow commentator: Putin now has his storm troopers and pogroms will surely follow
Putin’s Russia has crossed a Rubicon: it now has sanctioned the Anti-Maidan Movement, a domestic version of Hitler’s…
Russian philosopher: Russia today has ‘nationalism without a nation’
“Post-Soviet Russian nationalism has been fatally flawed from the outset because it arose not from the word ‘nation’…
Moscow agrees to try Gyumri killer in Armenia but in a Russian court
Fearful that Armenian anger could lead to a break with Moscow or even spark an orange-style revolution in…
Russian Interior Ministry wants to restore Stalin-style ‘Troikas’ to speed up ‘justice’
The Russian interior ministry wants to revive the troikas Stalin used to conduct the purges in the 1930s…
Political analyst: Putin’s mental map is pre-1914 Europe
Every leader carries around in his or her head a mental map of the world, one that is…
Six reasons why Putin has stepped up Russian aggression in Ukraine now
Since Moscow’s Anschluss of Crimea almost a year ago, many in Russia, Ukraine and the West have asked…
Analysis: ‘Putin isn’t a politician. He’s a spy and a provocateur’
Russia, the 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev reminded the world, cannot be measured by “an ordinary yardstick.”…
Gyumri events in Armenia could spark a new war over Karabakh
The murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri by a Russian soldier and the failure of Yerevan to…
Alfred Koch: Putin’s rejection of science and fear of the educated destroying Russia’s future
Vladimir Putin “understands that the threat to his regime is to be found among the thinking and educated”…