‘Putin’s military success in Ukraine would have no meaning because politically he’s already lost the war,’ Pozharsky says
Vladimir Putin is now confronted with a problem that other leaders who have sent forces into other countries,…
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Putin’s war in Ukraine jeopardizes Russia’s expansive goals in the Arctic
In small ways and large, Vladimir Putin’s recent escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine has “put in…
Leaders of non-Russian republics backing Putin’s war in Ukraine said losing legitimacy in eyes of their nations
Many observers in Russia and abroad have suggested that by escalating his war in Ukraine [The Russo-Ukrainian War…
Putin’s war on Ukraine has devastating consequences for Russia, Russian analyst says
Vladimir Putin made five strategic mistakes that led him to his broadening of his war on Ukraine [The…
NATO, you are already part of the conflict. Enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine, now
Commenting on the Ukrainian call for a NATO No-Fly Zone over Ukraine on 4 March, member states stressed…
putin’s ruin
It’s day seven of russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days after putin’s generals expected to be in total…
Many non-Russians inside Russia oppose Putin’s war; some see end of empire approaching
The divide between those in the Russian Federation who support Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and those who oppose…
Russia’s war against Ukraine isn’t a “real” war, most Russians think
Russians are against war, something they understand as a major war involving the West; but with regard to…
Protests against war in Ukraine spread across Russia
As is invariably the case, anti-war actions in Moscow have attracted the most attention not only because of…
Moscow worried about loss of titanium ore supplies from Ukraine
There is no question that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine primarily for political and geopolitical reasons. But there were…
Russia’s massive COVID-19 deaths may help Putin hide Ukrainian war losses
Even before Mikhail Gorbachev’s glasnost, Soviet citizens knew something about the losses their military was taking in the…
Russia delenda est! Russia’s initial plans to take over Ukraine fail, but it’s not over yet
Russia attacked Ukraine! It’s time to make things perfectly clear! Putin and his acolytes have been working on…
Putin now moving against more than Ukraine and Belarus
Now that the Kremlin dictator is engaged in what appears to be an increasingly all-out military invasion of…
Why Putin is setting Russia up to lose far more than Moscow did in 1991
For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed…
Putin-backed citizenship legislation tips his plans of more aggression and annexation
If the leader of any other country proposed new citizenship legislation that would give his government the power…
Ancient Ukrainian church brotherhoods as forerunner of nation’s civil society today, Horyevoy says
Many are investigating why civil societies have emerged in some countries but not in others; but their research,…
For human rights, 2021 ‘worst year in history of post-Soviet Russia,’ Davidis says
Sergey Davidis, a specialist on political prisoners at the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, says that 2021…
Russian propaganda now shows Ukraine as “enslaved brother,” invasion as “just reclamation”
In Putin’s thinking, an invasion of Ukraine would not be an attack on a sovereign state but a…
After 1945, Soviet forces made Nazi death camps part of the GULAG, Moscow portal says
The Putin regime denounces every suggestion that Stalin’s dictatorship was in any way like Hitler’s. It has even…
This is how western media lose credibility in Ukraine
An article titled Armed Nationalists in Ukraine Pose a Threat Not Just to Russia by Moscow-based Andrew E.…