Anyone who wants to know what Putin’s future plans are for Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and all the other countries which achieved independence in 1991 if he wins need only look at what the Kremlin leader is doing in the non-Russian...
Most analytics, experts, and officials have long concluded that the Russian full-scale invasion is failing. On March 15, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, stated that Russian offensive actions...
The financial challenges Russia will encounter in 2023 are expected to be as significant as the profits it gained in 2022. Last year, Russia’s pricing strategy for its global oil and gas customers specified that any reduction in the...
Following the start of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the European gas industry announced that it plans to commission 195 billion cubic meters per year of liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal capacity by 2026. According...
Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence of the US, thinks that the war in Ukraine has become a grinding attrition war in which neither side has a definitive military advantage. She believes President Putin will likely carry on,...
The five largest oil and gas companies made bank in 2022, thanks to Russia’s war on Ukraine and the resulting spike in energy prices. Exxon led the pack, with nearly $60 billion in earnings, up over 150% from last year. These...
Over the last year, Western leaders have had to give up on many of their assumptions about Ukraine and Russia, Aleksandr Skobov says. But they still have yet to recognize that they want two things that cannot take place simultaneously:...
Despite the application of brutal military power, the ongoing war in Ukraine is still a hybrid war. Until the full-scale invasion on 24 February last year, hybrid war was often described as a grey zone operation below the threshold of war....
We always have to say our goodbyes, and each one blends into the last. In 1941, my grandfather gathered everything that his wife and children could carry – clothes, household items, a little money, and simple jewelry – as they...
Gleb Pavlovsky died on 27 February in Moscow after a prolonged illness. I have mixed feelings regarding this Odesa native, who became the architect of “managed democracy” in Russia. Andrew Wilson masterfully described his...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
