No reason for Russia to disintegrate either under Putin or after him, Navalny movement leader says
The Navalny ally makes that argument about the fate of the Russian Federation on a YouTube video…
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Deals with Russia don’t work. Deoccupying Ukraine will solve the food crisis
Contents International food security takes a hitA dead deal?“Kherson Oblast will definitely be liberated”A devastating chain reaction of…
The West needs a new strategy: Russia will never be democratized – social scientist
[Part 1: In post-war Ukraine, Zelenskyy will face fate of Churchill – social scientist ] Contents Why Russia…
Hail corruption in Putin’s Russia: we need more, not less, of it
In early June of this year, Russian invaders killed Roman Ratushnyi, a 24-year-old Ukrainian civic activist who volunteered…
Russia’s milk sector was crippled by sanctions. Then British packaging company Mondi came to the rescue
The British company Mondi is helping Russia weather international sanctions. The country’s main packaging producer Tetra Pak left,…
Like Stalin before him, Putin using prisoners as cannon fodder in Ukraine
In yet another sign that Russian combat losses are far higher than officials are willing to admit, representatives…
Ukrainian parliamentarians want to declare Russia’s 1864 expulsion of Circassians a genocide
Their leader, Oleksiy Honcharenko, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,…
Non-Russian POWs in Ukraine say their republics have few prospects for independence
Zolkin says he doesn’t want to offend anyone but these people have been reduced to the status of…
I’m done believing we’re the stupid ones, Ukrainian soldier tells Jonathan Franzen
In his first hit novel The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen refers to Ukraine as “the Ukraine,” it’s Ukraine’s colonial…
Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says
In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia, triggering a…
Germany tries to wrench a turbine out of Canada’s sanctions. It should press on Russia instead
A drama is unfolding around a Siemens turbine stuck in Canada. It was sent to Canada for repairs…
By invading Ukraine, Putin has hastened the disintegration of Russia, Etkind says
The Russian Federation is an empire and it will fall apart, sooner rather than later, because of Putin’s…
Dutch-based Yandex makes Russia’s borders with other countries disappear
Vladimir Putin’s contempt for the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine is obvious, but there is one…
3 months of Russian invasion have changed Ukrainians more than previous 30 years: opinion poll
Ukrainians have changed more since Putin launched his full-scale aggression against Ukraine in February than they had in…
NATO’s Strategic Concept-2022: names Russia as threat, deletes key commitment to act on this threat
This is not an in-depth analysis of NATO’s New Strategic Concept. This is simply a quick look at…
Global community must drop romanticized image of Russia – Ukrainian Dialogue
“The war simply started as Putin’s fundamental willingness and commitment to destroy Ukraine” Pavlo Klimkin was the Minister…
What NATO should do
Spain is hosting a NATO Summit in Madrid on 28, 29, and 30 June 2022. It is the…
To make Russia sanctions effective, West must re-establish Soviet-era watchdog COCOM – historian
Given that sanctions are the primary weapon the West is using against Russia and given that the existing…
Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk: “War is not a metaphor”
On 18 June, during the opening of the Berlin Poetry Festival, award-winning Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk made a…
How ordinary Russians were turned into murderers and rapists through TV and smartphones
Ukraine is going through the most difficult period in its history. The largest war since World War II…