Kyiv must denounce 2004 Azov Sea accord with Russia now, Ohryzko says
Despite loose talk about convoys and military action, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko says, Kyiv up to…
Stalin frequently modified Russia’s borders, adding and subtracting territory, Butakov says
One of the most widely held misconceptions about the USSR was that borders among the various republics were…
Moscow’s integration of Donbas from below–via Russian regions–accelerates
Earlier this month, the governor of Orel Oblast, a Russian region adjoining Ukraine, called for a commission to…
Trump has done more than collude with Putin: he’s helped Kremlin leader destroy post-1945 world
Donald Trump did more than collude with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. He worked with the Kremlin leader to…
The greatest danger in Helsinki: new ‘secret protocols’ or simply ‘understandings’
If the last century of diplomacy teaches nothing else, it is that secret protocols and understandings are a…
‘Russia has begun the integration of the Donbas’ – at the regional level
In the best Putinite tradition, Russia has begun to take steps to integrate and absorb the Donbas into…
US non-recognition policy and Crimea – Russian misrepresentations and Baltic truths
Three US senators, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Rob Portman, have called for Washington to promulgate a policy…
Implicitly conceding Ukrainian autocephaly, Moscow makes plans to split Orthodoxy and dominate one part of it, analysts say
Now that it has become clear that autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is only a question of…
Trump’s challenging of broad consensus on Crimea will lead to a broader war, Skobov says
Even if Donald Trump doesn’t recognize as legitimate Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea, the US president’s hints that…
Moscow planning provocation in occupied Crimea to discredit Ukraine, general says
Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities are preparing some sort of provocation in…
Kremlin-linked Russian commentators step up calls for ‘destruction’ of Ukraine
While most coverage of Russia has been focusing on the FIFA World Cup and Russians' obsession about a…
To rule Russia, Putin doesn’t need mass murders: he has TV, Khersonsky says
There are as yet no mass repressions in Russia, but there is “simply no need for them,” Ukrainian…
Russia lacks a state in the normal sense, Polikovsky and Oreshkin say
Russia has never had a state in the normal sense of the term and does not have one…
Moscow dispatches even more ‘private military companies’ to Syria and Africa
Moscow has now dispatched another of what it calls “a private military company” to fight in Syria, a…