Putin-Trump meeting won’t result in dramatic changes on Ukraine many fear and some hope, Shevtsova says
Vladimir Putin has achieved a major goal with plans for a summit between him and US President Donald…
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Putin’s rise had 13 ‘fathers’ and 12 serious opponents, Illarionov says
Vladimir Putin and the Russian political system known as Putinism did not emerge out of nowhere, Andrey Illarionov…
Three largest Russian militant training facilities identified
After the Wagner disaster in Syria, Russian and Western journalists reported about its training facility near Molkino where…
Two dangerous proposals on Crimea with even more dangerous consequences
Any time a dispute lasts beyond a few weeks, it is almost inevitable that some of those involved…
EU’s unity on Ukraine under threat by slow pace of reforms in Kyiv
Council conclusions on Ukraine are being blocked, the biggest group in the European Parliament has openly threatened to…
Japanese expert: Ethnic Ukrainians form 60% of Northern Territories’ (Kuriles’) population
Yoshihiko Okabe, an expert on Russia at the University of Kobe in Japan, says that “about 60 percent…
What do you call a successful terrorist? Your excellency!
It has long been a witticism among specialists on international relations that terrorists who succeed are no longer…
Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014
Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey…
Putin seized Crimea with regular army but outsourced action in Donbas
There are many differences between the Russian seizure of Crimea and Russian actions in the Donbas, but perhaps…
Ukrainian Parliament votes to create an Anti-Corruption Court
Before the final voting, Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Chief Executive of Transparency International Ukraine said that the bill which was…
World Cup Awareness: Five Things Worth Knowing About Propaganda in Russia
But along with the fans and the football players come the camera crews and the journalists, many of…
Ukrainian autocephaly just as inevitable as restoration of USSR is impossible
Some were disappointed that the Constantinople Patriarchate did not make the Ukrainian church autocephalous at its meeting on…
Putin repeating Stalin’s genocide with ‘new hybrid deportation of Crimean Tatars’
Seventy years after Stalin expelled 200,000 Crimean Tatars from their homeland, Vladimir Putin is doing it again, albeit…
Study: A third of Moscow TV news is about Ukraine, and 90% of it is negative
A new study by the Ukraine Crisis Media Center says that between July1, 2014, and December 31, 1917,…
West must boycott FIFA World Cup or face an even more dangerous Putin afterwards
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to…
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…
‘Chief beneficiary’ of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and Syria is Moscow TV, new poll shows
There have been innumerable surveys of Russian attitudes over the last decade, but most of them have been…
Putin outdoes Potemkin for World Cup
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip…
Putin is consistent but the West isn’t, Portnikov says
At the very moment that the international investigation of the downing of the Malaysian jetliner concluded that Moscow…
Russia positioning to attack Ukraine from Sea of Azov, Ukrainian general says
Moscow’s harassment of Ukrainian shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Straits may have a more…