What is Russia’s real grand strategy? RAND think tank investigates
A grand or high strategy of a country describes the country's enduring interests and the way it is…
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The Russian elections and hidden regionalist politics
The 20-year-old ban on regional-level political parties, put in place when President Vladimir Putin came to power in…
Nord Stream 2 сonstruction сompleted, but gas flows unlikely in 2021
On September 10, the project company Nord Stream 2 AG informed that the last weld has been finished,…
Moscow planning to slow down Internet speeds to where they were in the 1990s, Grozev says
The Bellingcat investigative journalist outlined this plan in a presentation to this year’s Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn…
Western sanctions regime must be fundamentally revised because Russia is a mafia state, Gessen says
The Russian-American commentator argues that the West’s sanctions regime is based on the false assumption that Moscow will…
Putinism is the post-industrial form of fascism, Skobov says
Putin’s attention to and approval of ever more distant if equally odious figures from Russia’s medieval past show…
Moscow complains about campaign against Russian speakers in Ukraine while waging a far more sweeping one against Ukrainian speakers in Russia, Yatsenyuk says
But in making that claim, Lavrov and those who follow him ignore the fact that in the Russian…
Some in Moscow and Nur-Sultan see Kazakhstan becoming ‘another Ukraine’
The Svobodnaya pressa commentator surveys the views of some and provides especially instructive reaction by Yevgeny Valyayev of…
Will German court’s decision on Nord Stream 2 stop Putin’s project?
What is the decision about and how will it affect NS 2? EU rules demand that the sources…
Moscow’s labeling of Protestant groups with Latvian and Ukrainian links ‘undesirable’ has other Protestants in Russia worried
Russian officials say these fears are overblown and that the other Protestant groups have nothing to worry about,…
Ukrainian Foreign Minister reminded his Russian counterpart what Russia was called until the 18th century
“Minister Lavrov got lost in the three pine trees of Russian history. Until the 18th century, his state…
In 1991 Russia, ‘no one was ready for democracy or really wanted it’ and not much has changed, Lev Gudkov says
In an interview with Vienna’s Die Presse, the Russian sociologist and pollster says that initially it appeared young…
Russia resembles a cemetery through which an armed man is walking, Martynov says
The political editor of Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta says that young Russians have now been confronted with a…
Is Shoygu preparing to become Russian President?
Shoygu first addressed the problem of developing Siberia and about a possible move of the Russian capital, and…
Putin better reflects underlying Russian values than does the opposition and his system will thus outlast both, Pastukhov says
That makes him successful at retaining power, the London-based Russian analyst says, especially since the opposition refuses to…
What next for Nord Stream 2? The legal battle in Europe begins
In a landmark development for European energy security, on July 15, Germany lost its appeal of the General…
Moscow supports Northern peoples in ways designed to cost them their way of life and identity, Horyevoy says
The Ukrainian journalist who specializes on religious and ethnic questions presents a damning portrait of what the Russian…
Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus and Moldova
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew…
On historical unity in a prison of nations: Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance Head strikes back at Putin
For decades, Vladimir Putin has been working diligently on his international image. He believes it is not enough…
‘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…