Russia’s war against covid likely to have consequences like its war against Japan in 1904-1905, El Murid says
For the Putin regime, the war against the coronavirus pandemic is increasingly analogous to the tsarist regime’s war…
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Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says
The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…
‘Authoritarian international’ emerging to fight democracy and human rights, Shaburov says
One has the sense, Aleksey Shaburov says, that a new “authoritarian international” is informally taking shape defined by…
Ukrainian ‘wedge’ regions in Russia east of the Urals declining in size but still numerous
Russian historian acknowledge that ethnic Ukrainians played a key role in the conquest and development of Siberia and…
Russians now fear their own government more than they fear a world war, Schulmann says
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important…
Russia’s moves toward fascism come ‘not just from Putin,’ Russian human rights campaigner says
Many Russians blame their country’s moves toward fascism on Vladimir Putin alone, Lev Ponomaryov says. But it is…
The system of torture and rape in Russian prisons was imposed by Moscow, GULAGU.Net activist says
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons,…
NATO’s defining moment is now or never
While NATO is not obliged to defend Ukraine, it is committed to defending itself. That responsibility just happens…
How the EU can resolve the Belarus migrant crisis in three steps
What is the Belarus migrant crisis and how did it begin? During the summer of 2021, the United…
Demise of USSR was anything but bloodless
Thirty years after the demise of the Soviet Union, it is perhaps not surprising that a number of…
Coercing Ukraine into neutrality: the politics behind Russia’s military threat to Ukraine
First of all, despite the fact that the Russian Federation is constantly raising the stakes, ongoing discussions about…
Vitaly Portnikov: Putin is politically dead, but he’s dragging Ukraine & the world into the past
On December 7, 2021, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke with the Wall Street Journal about Ukraine,…
Timothy Snyder: Putin’s essay on Ukraine creates mythical history to cover foreign policy failures
Address by Timothy Snyder, Historian, Richard C. Levin Professor at Yale University, at the Kyiv Security Forum Good…
Putin’s offer to “stop NATO expansion”: the reason behind Russia’s month of aggression
Just as the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs is drawing to an end, the Russian Federation…
Is Zelenskyy’s presidency a rollback of Euromaidan values or their continuation?
On November 21, Ukraine celebrated the Day of Dignity and Freedom, created by presidential decree on November 13,…
Poland may refuse entry to migrants from Belarus; EU must actively help Poland
For weeks, the media has been full of reports about migrants who want to enter the European Union…
Will Russia invade Ukraine? Here is what we know (and what we don’t)
Ukraine is in the middle of another war scare – the second one in just one year. Reports…
More is not better. The deleterious effects of artificially inflated Holodomor death tolls
For years on end, scholars, academics and historians have been inflating the number of deaths caused by the…
Putin doesn’t live in a parallel reality but revels in his ability to speak and act in this one with impunity, Portnikov says
Many who hear Vladimir Putin’s most outrageous statements or see his most aggressive actions are inclined to say…
Why these expats chose Ukraine
What is better in Ukraine than in your home country? Hopefully and hesitantly, I posted my question in…