The UK government’s revelations of a supposed planned pro-Kremlin coup elicited a great deal of sneering in Ukraine. After all, Yevhen Murayev is a pretty obscure politician with a rating in the single digits. The Opposition Bloc-For...
The UK government has warned about a Kremlin plan to install a loyal government in Ukraine as Russia mulls whether to invade. One of the candidates is Yevhen Murayev, a pro-Russian politician who is paradoxically under Russian sanctions....
That is because, the longtime specialist on World War II says, had the Bolsheviks not come to power, Hitler would not have either; and without the Nazi leader’s rise, the second world war would not have broken out. Asked by Alesya...
Moscow can’t afford the consequences of a direct military invasion of Belarus and doesn’t have sufficient resources to be able to buy off Minsk, Aleksandr Vlantsevich says; and consequently, it has already begun a hybrid war...
Sergey Dorenko, editor of This is Moscow Speaking, says that the Lukashenka regime is engaged in searches and arrests in the Belarusian KGB and the armed services, an indication that the Minsk apparently believes that a coup was being...
Coups and even more reported coup plots are typically murky affairs with one group suggesting someone is planning a real coup, a second that the regime itself is behind the reports in order to justify further repression, and still a third...
Tensions within the Russian political elite are now higher than at any point in years, Pavel Felgenhauer says; and as a result, he “does not exclude even a military coup in Russia. This perhaps is an extremely low probability...
Luhansk has been under the control of the Russian-hybrid forces since spring 2014. Moscow-installed local resident Igor Plotnitsky remained the political head of the “LNR” for three years. On 21 November, a dismissed...
2016 was a bad year globally and Turkey had more than its fair share of misfortune, most tragically the failed coup attempt of 15 July 2016. One year has passed since a renegade group of military officers directed by their...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
