The worst Russophobes in the world are in the Kremlin, Kornyev says
Russian leaders like Vladimir Putin routinely denounce others as Russophobes, but most of those they target do not…
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Putin’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda playing role state anti-Semitism did in Soviet times, Ikhlov says
Vladimir Putin’s “rabid” anti-Ukrainian propaganda resembles and is intended to have a similar outcome to Soviet state anti-Semitism,…
Russia’s ideology is ‘traditional great powerness cleansed of communism,’ Pavlova says
Both supporters and critics of the Putin regime often say his regime lacks an ideology – Aleksandr Podrabinek…
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…
Russian opposition must make right of secession centerpiece of its program, Skobov says
Because imperialism has been and remains at the root of almost all of Russia’s problems, Aleksandr Skobov says,…
By focusing on corruption alone, Russian opposition unwittingly helping Kremlin, Pavlova says
Alexei Navalny and the liberals who support him have focused almost exclusively on the issue of corruption, a…
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…
Putin’s actions in Avdiivka show he killed his beloved idea of ‘a triune people’ of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, Ikhlov says
Like many Russian nationalists, Vladimir Putin has long insisted that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are not separate nations…
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,…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
25 years on, evil empire is less big but no less evil, Yakovenko says
Twenty-five years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev bowed to the inevitable and handed over the nuclear codes to Russian President…
Putinism isn’t the Brezhnevism of today: it’s far more dangerous and vigorous, Pavlova says
It is fashionable to compare the Putin regime of today with that of Leonid Brezhnev, but such comparisons…
Moscow analyst: the Kremlin won’t accept Finlandization of Ukraine
The Kremlin’s goals with respect to Ukraine almost certainly preclude any compromise even with the incoming Trump Administration.…
Putin’s Russia for export at odds with his Russia for Russians, Shiropayev says
A major source confusion about Vladimir Putin and his intentions is that the Russia he has been promoting…
Russia has to yield more than Crimea for a chance to become a democracy, Buravlyev says
Many Ukrainians now argue Russia must give Crimea back to Ukraine to have any chance of becoming a…
Putinism – a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism was
Putinism, as ideology and practice, is now a greater threat to the West than Soviet communism ever was,…
Russia’s increasingly imperialistic direction now right on the money
Sometimes small changes in the most ordinary places are a clearer indication of where a country is headed…
‘Russia is trying to be an empire but it ever more resembles a colony,’ Glukhovsky says
The fundamental contradiction in Russia today is that “externally Russia is trying to be an empire but internally…
MH17 report may lead Moscow to use military force against Belarus, Minsk analyst says
The reactions to the international report that Russia was behind the shooting down of the Malaysian jetliner have…
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…