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Kyiv must seek collapse of Putin regime, not ‘restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity at any price,’ Portnikov says

Ukrainian commentator Vitaly Portnikov argues that the goal of the Ukrainian government should not be “the restoration of…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin/Obama political cartoon by Morten Morland via Twitter

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End sanctions or Russia won’t join effort against ISIS, Federation Council declares

At the end of its call for an international coalition against terrorism, Russia’s Federation Council makes crystal clear…

byPaul A. Goble

This image from the Russian Defense Ministry shows a Russian Air Force bomb hitting a target in Syria. Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the UN that Russian air strikes killed dozens of civilians, with children among the dead. Photo: AP

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Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says

Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

The “Mykolayiv miracle”: IT director defeats oligarch-supported opponent in local elections

It’s celebration time in the election team of Oleksandr Senkevych, the mayor of Mykolayiv, a regional center in South Ukraine.…

byAlya Shandra

This portrait from an October 2014 art exposition in Moscow in honor of Vladimir Putin's birthday shows the Russian president fighting the multi-headed dragon of leading Western democracies. The EU, Japan, and Canada are still alive and fire back with "sanctions," but the US head has already succumbed to Putin's sword. The artist's hopes were in vain. The economic sanctions put in place for Putin's aggression against Ukraine are still in place. (Image: bbc.com)

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After Paris, Putin offers the West a 3-part deal he thinks it can’t refuse, Yakovenko says

In the wake of the Paris tragedy, Vladimir Putin, Moscow officials and Russian commentators have precisely duplicated “the…

byPaul A. Goble

Despite its backwardness in other things, Putin's Russia is heavily militarized and ready for imperialist aggression all over the world, whether it's a neighboring country, like Georgia or Ukraine, or a remote one, like Syria. (Image: TTOLK.ru)

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‘Putin not interested in fighting Islamism but promoting instability and undermining the West,’ Eidman says

Western countries may be willing to form a “tactical” alliance with Russia about the fight against ISIS, but…

byPaul A. Goble

Visitors attend the opening ceremony of political cartoons exhibition 'No filters' in Moscow, Russia, 31 October 2014. Rating of Russian President Vladimir Putin has updated its high, reaching 83 per cent according to a survey of the analytical center 'Levada-Center'. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV

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Moscow projects false myths onto the West and then justifies Russian actions on their basis, Solomatin says

A curious and extraordinarily dangerous feedback loop has emerged, Mikhail Solomatin says. Moscow projects false myths on the…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

Eastern Europe now has to stand together

Islamic terrorists attack Paris, and western leaders quickly readmit Russia in their circles. Obama, Merkel, Hollande – all…

byNicole Gallina

World leaders at G20 meeting in Antalya, Turkey, November 2015 (Image: Mehmet Ali Ozcan/Anadolu)

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Putin won’t get a new Yalta as West doesn’t need Russia to defeat ISIS

Russian propagandists and many in the West have been repeating the Kremlin’s mantra that ISIS cannot be defeated…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

Pavlensky’s six performances. Getting more dangerous each time

Pyotr Pavlensky is in pre-trial detention for setting the doors of the FSB, Russia’s secret police that became…

byDozhd TV channel

A woman watches victims in the 10th district of Paris, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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Military solution to ISIS exists but not for terrorism more generally, Khramov says

There is a military solution to ISIS and it will undoubtedly be successfully applied in the coming weeks,…

byPaul A. Goble

The old political cartoon depicts the Soviet takeover of the Eastern Europe accomplished as the result of the Yalta Conference between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively. The conference was to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization. It convened at the Livadia Palace in Yalta, Crimea, USSR in February 1945, near the end of the WW2.

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Putin wants World War II-type alliance against ISIS – with all ensuing consequences

The centrality of World War II in Vladimir Putin’s thinking has never been more evident than now when…

byPaul A. Goble

Stalin supervising the signing of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact dividing Poland between Hitler's regime and his own, Aug 23, 1939. From left to right: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Minister of Foreign Affairs; Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (sitting); Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator; Vladimir Pavlov, First Secretary of the Soviet embassy in Germany (Image: TASS)

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Stalin’s expansionist designs blocked signing of second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty

Seventy-five years ago this weekend, Vyacheslav Molotov left Berlin without the second Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty Moscow and Berlin had…

byPaul A. Goble

Sergey Kovalyev, the head of Memorial, a Russian historical and civil rights society

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Kremlin thinks West would not respond even to a small nuclear bomb attack, Kovalyev says

Sergey Kovalyev, the head of Memorial, says that he fears that there are many in the Kremlin who…

byPaul A. Goble

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International

Some conspiracy theory: does Russia support ISIS?

“Listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he’s the traitor.” Don Corleone, The Godfather I condemn…

byM. Bahadırhan Dinçaslan

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Putin creating ‘an Anti-Globalist International’ in Europe, Pastukhov says

Vladimir Putin is creating “an Anti-Globalist International” of those who see no good future for themselves in the…

byPaul A. Goble

An unnamed man brings his portable grand piano and plays John Lennon's "Imagine" by the Bataclan, a Parisian concert hall. (Image: John Walton / PA Wire)

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‘The French 911’ – Three lessons for the future in Eurasia

Less than 24 hours have elapsed from the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, and many questions about it…

byPaul A. Goble

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Archive

There are only two differences between ISIS and the “People’s Republics” in Donbas

Grieving for the dead and with sincere condolences to France, we really hope that in this dark time…

byInformation Resistance

Military parade on Red Square in Moscow to celebrate an anniversary of the October Communist Revolution. November 7, 1990. (Image: TASS)

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Russia’s accelerating return to Soviet past: Key dates under Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin’s restoration of many aspects of Soviet life is not only obvious but accelerating, as is clearly…

byPaul A. Goble

A screen capture from Russian NTV channel broadcast showing a sheet with information about the Status-6 nuclear drone submarine, which is a weapon with roots in Soviet times, but that could be used to cover a coastal area with radioactive debris and make it uninhabitable, according to the report. (Image: Delovaya Stolitsa)

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Putin’s new Cold War is different and far more dangerous, Kyiv paper says

Vladimir Putin has chosen a military strategy which makes the new cold war he has started not only…

byPaul A. Goble