Putin has made the new Yalta he wants impossible
Because of his aggression against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has ensured that “there will never be a new Yalta,…
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A post-Putin Russia might be bad news for everyone, including Ukraine, in the short term
If Vladimir Putin is ousted or when he dies, the Russian government likely to emerge at least in…
Are regional FSB offices being told to find specific numbers of ‘enemies of the people’?
One of the most horrific features of Stalin’s Great Terror at the end of the 1930s was the…
Putin is like Khrushchev between Cuban Missile Crisis and his 1964 ouster
In the swirl of rumors reflecting the limited and only suggestive information anyone has about what is going…
Moscow in a Time of Twitter
Rumors have always swirled around the Russian throne especially when anything happens or is thought to be happening…
The uneasy reality of antifascism in Ukraine
For almost twenty years of Ukraine’s independence, the term “antifascism” used to have very limited currency in the…
Is Russia finally going to have to pay for its crimes?
Today the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) has started the inter-state case on the violations of human…
Putin waiting out conflict between FSB and Kadyrov forces, Belkovsky says
In his latest statement posted on Open Russia, Belkovsky argues that Putin is facing a conflict between different…
Putin has lost monopoly on use of force and balance among force structures
The Putin regime has lost two things on which any state depends: a monopoly on the legitimate use…
When pro-Moscow militants return from Ukraine to Russia…
Yesterday, Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Putin’s Security Council, warned that Russia will face a serious terrorist threat if…
Kyiv commentator: Putin’s Crimean Anschluss is leading to Russia’s suicide
When Vladimir Putin decided a year ago to annex Crimea, he and his supporters expected that this would…
As in Stalin’s time, Russians denounce other Russians for personal gain
As in Stalin’s time, Russians are now denouncing other Russians simply in order to get their apartments, their…
Moscow commentator: Putin’s vision means new Cold War more likely to go hot
The new cold war that has begun in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine does not have…
Anti-Moscow Chechen leader: “No thinking person can believe Chechens killed Nemtsov”
Akhmed Zakayev, who was a close aide to Dzhokhar Dudayev and who leads the anti-Moscow Chechens from London,…
Russia experts call for lustration in Finland
A group of Finnish commentators has published a collection of articles analysing Finland’s position as Russia’s neighbour and…
Russia’s goals in Ukraine: toward a second Yalta?
A narrative is emerging about Russia’s goals and ambitions in Ukraine. In this version of what is motivating…
Latvian MP: Moscow using Russian organizations to destabilize Latvia
Solvita Āboltiņa, chairman of the Latvian parliament’s security committee, says that the 100 NGOs in Latvia receiving money…
Russian politician: Murderers of opposition figures in Russia rarely caught and those behind them almost never
In the increasingly Orwellian world that is Vladimir Putin’s Russia, one in which the lie is the truth,…
Russian economist: Putin’s admission on Crimea gives West ‘unique’ chance to force change
Vladimir Putin’s acknowledgement that he personally decided upon and conducted a special operation to seize Crimea “opens a…
Separatism coming back to haunt the Kremlin: Moscow Peoples Republic
Yury Batishchev, who styles himself as the leader of the Moscow liberation movement, Rusinsky Kray, has announced the…