When a foreign state buys off officials in another country, it’s more than just bribery
Andrey Dynko, a Belarusian commentator, has reminded the world of something many would like to ignore: when a…
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Might Zelenskyi play the Muslim card against Russia?
Yesterday, incoming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of the Muslim community of Ukraine for two…
Russian literature no longer has the standing abroad it once had
Russians have long comforted themselves with the fact that however many bad things others can say about them…
Change of Russian ambassadors won’t slow Moscow’s effort to absorb Belarus, iSANS expert says
The replacement of the brash Mikhail Babich by the more diplomatic Dmitry Mezentsev will not bring any fundamental…
Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic collapse?
Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others…
Who is behind reports of a coup plot in Belarus?
Coups and even more reported coup plots are typically murky affairs with one group suggesting someone is planning…
Zelenskyi doomed to be Putin’s personal enemy, Portnikov says
Even though the Kremlin wanted Petro Poroshenko to suffer in the recent elections, it did not want an…
60 percent of 500,000 Azerbaijanis in Ukraine are Ukrainian citizens, leader says
Sixty percent of the roughly half million Azerbaijanis living in Ukraine are citizens of that country and committed…
Russia didn’t ‘feed’ the USSR: the entire USSR ‘fed’ the nomenklatura, Mirovich says
One of the most widespread myths in Russia today is that in Soviet times, Russia took care of…
Insincerity and hypocrisy… Ukrainian style
Remove the images of the Heavenly Hundred, which are portrayed on walls and stands around our churches and…
Russia has nothing to offer China except raw materials and empty words, Russian analyst says
Vladimir Putin’s flatfooted offer to China to combine Beijing’s plans for an east-west transit network with Russian hopes…
Kremlin’s ‘Mobilization Party’ believes limited nuclear strike would save its power at home and boost Russia’s abroad, Piontkovsky says
A newly coalescing “Mobilization Party” in the Kremlin is convinced that it can only save its own position…
Putin’s passport scheme signal of further aggression against Ukraine, Portnikov says
Vladimir Putin’s plan to offer Russian citizenship to anyone in the Russian-occupied portions of the Donbas who wants…
How Zelenskyi “hacked” Ukraine’s elections | Op-ed
Why did Ukrainian voters consider Zelenskyy a better choice than the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko? Read also: Why…
Implementation of Ukrainian autocephaly may be first flashpoint in Zelenskyi era
Petro Poroshenko made autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a centerpiece of national strategy, used the power of…
‘Look at us: everything is possible’ – Zelenskyi’s existential challenge to Putinism
Whatever policies he adopts or concessions he makes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has so challenged Vladimir Putin’s vision of the…
Ukraine has gotten over Russia but Russia hasn’t gotten over Ukraine, Shevtsova says
Russians have been so obsessed with Ukraine for five years to the point of forgetting about their own…
Poroshenko has suffered fate of Winston Churchill, Khandurin says
Just as British voters rejected Winston Churchill after he had led the country to victory in World War…
Digital populism of Ukrainian presidential campaign has inflicted a deep wound, Deresh says
The language of hatred that has infected both sides in the just-completed presidential race in Ukraine, just like…
Non-Russians inside Russia more important allies of West than is the opposition there, Verkhovna Rada leader says
In words that echo Eugene Lyons’ 1953 classic, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia, Hanna Hopko, chair…