Kremlin’s targeting of messages makes ‘ideology of hybrid war’ more effective and dangerous than Soviet predecessor, Eidman says
In Soviet times, Moscow sent out a single ideological message to the world; now, the Kremlin sends carefully…
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Europeans will continue or even boost sanctions on Russia even though many don’t want to, Portnikov says
The decision of the EU to continue but not increase sanctions against Russia represents the current “European consensus”…
When Moscow talks of ‘deep integration’ of Belarus, it means annexation, Lukashenka says
Speaking in Minsk today, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says that “under the pretext of ‘deep integration,’” Moscow wants…
Deaths will exceed births in Crimea every year through 2035, Russian occupiers say
The Crimean Statistical Agency (CSA), a branch of the Russian occupation authorities, says that deaths will exceed births…
Foreign naval vessels can use Northern Sea Route only with Russia’s advance approval, Moscow says
As of next year, foreign military vessels will be allowed to traverse the Northern Sea Route only after…
Moscow organizing provocations in Ukraine to disrupt Church Unification Council, SBU says
The Russian special services and the “DNR” officials they control are organizing church marches in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv,…
24 years ago, Moscow attacked Chechnya, triggering a war that changed everything
Most people today are focusing on bidding farewell to Lyudmila Alekseyeva, the great human rights activist that Vladimir…
Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has faced before, Yakovenko says
Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years…
Putin’s invasion force is only 18 km from Ukrainian border and West is ignoring it, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin has assembled “hundreds of Russian T-64 and T-62M tanks and thousands of military vehicles” only 18…
The Russian Federation will disintegrate but not ‘just like the Soviet Union did’
Twenty-seven years ago on December 8, 1991, the presidents of the RSFSR, the Belarusian SSR and the Ukrainian…
Russians will celebrate return of Crimea to Ukraine if Putin tells them to, Portnikov says
The possibility that Vladimir Putin will return two or more of the Kurile Islands the Soviet Union seized…
Moscow may be preparing a ‘Syrian type’ chemical weapons ‘provocation’ in Ukraine, Ikhlov says
One of the clearest early warning signs of Moscow’s plans are suggestions in the Russian media that the…
Draft tomos gives Ukrainian Church less autonomy than it hopes to obtain
Ukrainian media have obtained a copy of a draft tomos that the Universal Patriarchate has prepared for delivery…
Moscow’s next provocation against Ukraine likely to involve use of air power, Starykov says
Pointing to a buildup in Russian forces near the border, the Ukrainian military says that the Russian threat…
Putin’s approach to Ukraine threatens entire international order and must be reversed, Skobov says
As hard as it is to imagine in the 21st century, Vladimir Putin is perfectly prepared to go…
Putin treating captured Ukrainian sailors the way Stalin would have, Eidman says
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir…
Beware of Russia’s bilateral cyber world order
Today, cyberspace is insufficiently regulated by international law. Existing international legal documents, like the 2001 Budapest Convention on…
Moscow disseminating two messages on Ukraine, neither of which should be accepted, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin’s agitprop now offers two different versions of the war against Ukraine, one “for the unconditionally dense…
Putin has crossed a Rubicon – Will the West respond?
Vladimir Putin has now done openly what he has denied doing in the past and what most Western…
‘In Russia today, I see a country preparing for a major war,’ Pastukhov says
Russia today, Vladimir Pastukhov says, is “a country preparing for a major war,” because Vladimir Putin understands that…