Putin’s passport scheme signal of further aggression against Ukraine, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants…
Implementation of Ukrainian autocephaly may be first flashpoint in Zelenskyi era
Petro Poroshenko made autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a centerpiece of national strategy, used the power of…
‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism
Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the…
Ukraine has gotten over Russia but Russia hasn’t gotten over Ukraine, Shevtsova says
Russians have been so obsessed with Ukraine for five years to the point of forgetting about their own…
Poroshenko has suffered fate of Winston Churchill, Khandurin says
Just as British voters rejected Winston Churchill after he had led the country to victory in World War…
Digital populism of Ukrainian presidential campaign has inflicted a deep wound, Deresh says
The language of hatred that has infected both sides in the just-completed presidential race in Ukraine, just like…
Non-Russians inside Russia more important allies of West than is the opposition there, Verkhovna Rada leader says
In words that echo Eugene Lyons’ 1953 classic, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia, Hanna Hopko, chair…
Russia’s creeping annexation of Belarus ‘already taking place,’ Juknevičienė says
Most people see annexation as something that occurs once and for all at a particular time; but in…
West and Ukraine must learn lessons of Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ speech, Podobed says
The West and Ukraine continue to support the Russian opposition rather than the national movements inside the current…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Secretly-prepared constitutional changes will open way to Anschluss of Belarus by Putin, Matskevich says
Vladimir Matskevich, a leading Belarusian thinker and sociologist, says that the Belarusian people must demand the convention of…
Moscow close to UN recognition that its continental shelf extends far into the Arctic
After almost 20 years of Russian lobbying, a subgroup of the UN Commission on the Limits of the…
Duma votes to require those preparing and distributing foreign news in Russia to have Moscow’s permission
The Duma on first reading has voted to approve amendments to the administrative code that would impose fines…
Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in Germany, Eidman says
In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that…