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…
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Three telling poll results from Belarus
Polls in authoritarian countries like Belarus are hardly reliable given that many people there doubt that surveys are…
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 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:…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Fight over subordination of Orthodox hierarchies spreads to Moldova
Despite the fact that Ukraine’s Orthodox church is about to be granted autocephaly and ever more people in…
Does Estonia’s history with two Orthodox churches have lessons for Ukraine?
Constantinople’s gift of autocephaly to Ukraine’s Orthodox church could have a very different outcome than the violent clashes…
Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences
Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence…
Lukashenka tells Putin’s new man in Minsk: ‘Belarus will not ever be part of Russia’
In his extended first meeting with Mikhail Babich, Putin’s new ambassador to Minsk, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka made…
How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941
This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…
Moscow officials currently preparing for Anschluss of Belarus, Larionov says
Moscow’s demand that Minsk agree to the opening of a Russian base in Belarus in order to continue…
Save the Council of Europe from Russian blackmail
The human rights situation in the European Region is under threat, as the key organization protecting it might…
Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it
The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…
Five common notions about Russia’s disintegration all defective, Shtepa says
The five most common stereotypical notions about how the Russian Federation might fall apart do not reflect realities…
Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
Russia ignores PACE resolutions to end aggression against Ukraine. So PACE prepares to lift sanctions
Russia has not implemented a single call of any PACE resolution calling on it to stop its aggression…
Tensions flare after Hungarian consul caught secretly issuing passports in western Ukraine
Ukraine and Hungary have entered another round of conflict escalation. A video which surfaced on 19 September showing…
Elections 2019: beware of Ukrainian media manipulating polls and ratings
- Let’s start with the denial published by Iryna Bekeshkina, Director of the Democratic Initiatives Fund: “We didn’t…
Moscow’s much-ballyhooed Vostok-2018 military maneuvers involve far fewer soldiers than advertised, Golts says
In an article for New Times, independent Russian military analyst Aleksandr Golts says that the ongoing military maneuvers…