‘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…
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Moscow pushing Ukraine toward becoming a nuclear power again, Pastukhov says
Despite Russian military actions, Ukraine has shown itself unprepared for total war, hoping against hope that the West…
Hungary’s Jobbik Party shows itself to be Putinist, not Hungarian nationalist
Hungary’s extreme right Jobbik Party, which has long pushed Budapest to take up the cause of ethnic Hungarians…
Putin will attempt to divert attention from Russia’s attack on Ukraine in Kerch Strait, Polyakov says
What happened on November 25 in the Kerch Strait is an obvious act of military aggression, and this…
Without waiting for West, Ukraine must show the world ‘King Putin has no clothes,’ Mylovanov says
Russia’s latest act of aggression in the Kerch Straits show two things, Tymofiy Mylovanov says. On the one…
To deal with Putin, West needs to study Russian criminal world, Eidman says
Russian foreign policy, Igor Eidman says, “consists of a bizarre mix of the traditions of a corrupt bureaucracy…
‘Stalin prepared the Holodomor the same way Hitler did the Holocaust,’ Hrynevych says
Ukrainian historian Liudmyla Hrynevych says that “Stalin prepared the Holodomor with the very same methods which Hitler prepared…
Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and counter-intel even more, former KGB illegal says
Western media have been fixated on a report that Moscow now has 200 case officers working in London…
Three telling poll results from Belarus
Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are…
With the Maidan, Ukraine fought off Moscow not when empire was weak but when it was strong, Babchenko says
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Maidan in Ukraine, an event that challenged an axiom that…
Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story
Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International…
Moscow now shifting Navy vessels from Pacific and Arctic to Kerch Straits
In a move that gives substance to Ukrainian fears that Moscow will close the Sea of Azov to…
Despite common poverty, rural Ukraine and rural Belarus now two different worlds, Lavnikevych says
Many people make the mistake of judging countries on the basis of life in the capital cities, but…
Will the Sakharov prize help free Oleg Sentsov?
The story of the Ukrainian filmmaker has become known all over the world since 10 May 2014, when…
Moscow paper puts up and takes down article saying disintegration of Russia is ‘inevitable’
There are some things no one in Russia must say or even think. Perhaps the most important of…
For Putin, Ukrainian autocephaly is as bad for Russia as USSR’s disintegration and something he won’t tolerate, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin views autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox as having an equally fateful and negative impact on Russia…
Moscow Patriarchate’s Church in Ukraine will survive autocephaly, but as marginal force, Yurash says
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) will remain in existence after Ukraine forms its…
Seven messages from Mustafa Dzhemilev on his 75th Birthday
Mustafa Dzhemilev, who has been fighting for the rights of the Crimean Tatar nation for six decades against…
Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey
The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level:…
When wars end without recognized victors and vanquished
How wars end is at least as important as how they begin, although that aspect of conflict seldom…
