Russia positioning to attack Ukraine from Sea of Azov, Ukrainian general says
Moscow’s harassment of Ukrainian shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Straits may have a more…
Another country where ‘local’ Nazis are a front for Russia – Georgia
“The majority of the leaders of Georgian fascists and neo-Nazis are in one way or another connected with…
74 years on, Russian genocide of Crimean Tatars continues
Seventy-four years ago, Joseph Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars from their historical homeland, an action that cost nearly…
Are Russian oligarchs serving as Putin’s ‘little green men’ in Belarus?
In the wake of the political changes in Yerevan, Belarusian analysts are saying that Moscow would not react…
China now building five frigates a year: Russia only one every ten
Last weekend, Beijing announced that its second aircraft carrier had begun sea trials, an especially disturbing development from…
Soviets executed three times as many Red Army soldiers as Nazis executed German ones
Sometimes the driest of statistics throw a harsher light on reality than any longer discussion. According to official…
Moscow forming ‘death squads’ in occupied Crimea and elsewhere, Shmulyevich says
Avraam Shmulyevich says that Moscow is forming Latin American-style “death squads” in occupied Crimea, the Russian Federation and…
Being a historian an increasingly dangerous profession in Russia, Agora study says
For more than a century, Russia has been described as a country with an unpredictable past. The authorities…
Fearful of Moscow and his own people, Lukashenka fails to crush pro-Russian march in Minsk on Victory Day
Despite his heavy-handed approach to any and all demonstrations that he and his regime have not approved in…
Poroshenko redefines Donbas fighting so Kyiv can call things by their proper names
Moscow commentators have noticed what few in the West have: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s decision to change the…
‘If Kazakhstan and Russia suddenly ceased to be allies…’
Very public differences between Moscow and Astana and Kazakhstan’s increasingly close relations with the United States have prompted…
‘The world has stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin,’ Shevtsova says
Polls show that countries around the world not only have stopped loving or even respecting Russia and Putin…
A military coup against Putin–although unlikely–cannot now be excluded, Felgenhauer says
Tensions within the Russian political elite are now higher than at any point in years, Pavel Felgenhauer says;…
Ethnic Russians having become Estonian citizens form increasing share of Estonian Defense League
Not only are ever more ethnic Russians choosing to become Estonian citizens, but they are joining the ranks…