‘Russia may cut itself off completely from the West,’ Sergey Medvedev says
What is already taking place, the HSE scholar says, is the formation of “a medieval strata-based society” where…
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If anyone wrote Russian history the way Putin writes Ukraine’s, Putin would be outraged, Travin says
The European University specialist says that he will leave to others a critical appraisal of Putin’s words about…
Putin views Ukraine as “the anti-Russia” and the struggle against it as his mission, Shevchuk says
Vladimir Putin considers Ukraine not as a country and nation in its own right but as “’the anti-Russia,’…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples
“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…
Seven reasons why the USA and EU lost to the Nord Stream 2 lobbyists
There is no point in analyzing the work of German and American lobbyists of the Kremlin’s Nord Stream-2…
The Arctic Ocean was once the Tatar Sea, Khakimov says
They have managed to convince many that the Volga is a Russian rather than a Tatar river and…
Flirting with China is a dangerous political game for Ukraine
Ukraine’s relations with China have long been considered a frozen topic, not least because of the scandals that…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Vitaly Portnikov: For Putin, Ukraine does not and will never exist
One of Vladimir Putin’s final statements in his long article is that the “true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible…
Putin offering Ukraine same deal Stalin offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky says
Adenauer at the time replied that he preferred to remain the chancellor of half of Germany than become…
Information warfare at sea
Not a day goes by without news from the south of Ukraine. Russia has recently deployed all of…
Putin believes only annexing Ukraine will allow Russia to be a superpower without harm to its ethnic Russian core, Eidman says
When Vladimir Putin said during his “Direct Line” broadcast that his “main achievement” lies ahead, he provided a…
Europe needs graduate programs on information war – Estonian media veteran
Rebane, who worked for 20 years in Estonian television both at the end of the Soviet period and…
More than most post-Soviet nations, Belarusians beginning to overcome Soviet mentality, Dryndov says
Belarusians are beginning to overcome their Soviet mentality and to demand democracy and a law-based state, Olga Dryndova,…
Why Ukraine does not (yet) “deserve” NATO membership
Despite the title of the article, I strongly support a future NATO membership for Ukraine. It is probably…
Russia’s vile attempts to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent
After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean…
A brief dictionary of Putin newspeak
As George Orwell warned more than half a century ago, a dictatorship that can enforce its definition of…
After Nord Stream-2: how Ukraine can protect its gas transit
Whether or not the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will be completed is no longer a relevant question. The…