US non-recognition policy and Crimea – Russian misrepresentations and Baltic truths
Three US senators, Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez and Rob Portman, have called for Washington to promulgate a policy…
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Central and Eastern Europe in the fight with disinformation: How is Ukraine doing?
The group of researchers from 14 countries led by Kyiv-based think-tank “Ukrainian Prism” looked for answers and came…
A Moscow paper asks a most inconvenient question: ‘What is the secret of Estonia’s success?’
The independent Moscow newspaper Novyye izvestiya points out that the average pay in Estonia is now “about 1800…
Northern Kazakhstan likely to be Putin’s next target for aggression
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received…
‘UN: Human Rights in Crimea Have Deteriorated Since Occupation’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Russian Banking System on Brink of Collapse’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
‘Putin’s aggression in Ukraine: 35,000 killed and wounded’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Baltic past and present successes explain Moscow’s schizophrenic propaganda response
Russian propaganda about the Baltic countries insists that they are marginal, but the amount of that Moscow effort…
West backed Forest Brothers in Baltic countries, newly declassified CIA documents show
Many in the Baltic countries and elsewhere still celebrate the US non-recognition policy which specified that Washington would…
Izborsky Club calls for new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to re-divide Eastern Europe between Moscow and Berlin
The Izborsky Club, a group of Russian nationalist intellectuals that has often been extremely influential in the Kremlin…
A Russian propaganda site incites breaking up Baltic countries
Arguing that the Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians are more russophobic than any other nation in the world, the…
New Threats Require a New Response: What the Baltic Countries and the US Face in Putin’s Russia
By Paul A. Goble, Institute of World Politics Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on US Policy toward…
Solovey on the shape of the emerging Putin-Trump ‘Big Deal’ on Ukraine and much else
Valeriy Solovey, one of the best connected and most thoughtful of Moscow’s foreign policy commentators, says that the…
Moscow plans to ‘export separatism’ to Baltic countries, Christensen says
Moscow analyst Yuri Christensen says that Moscow plans to “export separatism” across the entire former Soviet space, including Estonia,…
“Moscow can’t find builder for new military base on Ukrainian border” and other neglected Russian stories
Putin’s Rating Falls as Russians Trust Their Own Eyes More and His TV Less. Polls show that Vladimir…
“Putin is a Russian Trump” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
NATO won’t do more than express concern, if Putin attacks another former Soviet republic, Illarionov says
If Vladimir Putin sends his forces to seize into any of the former Soviet republics — including the…
Stalin’s deportation of Baltic peoples in June 1941 remembered
Seventy-five years ago today, when Stalin was Hitler’s ally, Moscow began the forcible deportation of tens of thousands…
“How many Putins are there?” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Gorbachev’s support for Putin’s Crimean Anschluss – no surprise, Malgin says
Given his own willingness to use violence against people in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and elsewhere, no one…